Day: June 4, 2014

Three proposals were selected for funding from the core robotics research
grant (CR2G) program:
1. “STEAM Learning with Humanoid Robots”, David Saltz (PI), Chi Thai (Co-PI)
and ChanMin Kim (Co-PI)
2. Development of Co-Robots to Control Weeds in Organic Food Production”,
Changyin Li (PI), George Boyhan (Co-PI), Javad Mohammadpour (Co-PI) and
David Berle (Co-PI)
3. “Mobile Manipulator Systems for Field Detection and Classification of
Agricultural Pests”, Chi Thai (PI), Suchendra Bhandarkar (Co-PI), Mark
Haidekker (Co-PI), Kyle Johnsen (Co-PI), Don Potter (Co-PI) and Zion Tse
(Co-PI)
Congratulations to all PIs and Co-PIs above!

Faculty Fellows Kim and Doshi are part of a grant from UGA’s inaugural Interdisciplinary Proposal Development program. The project is on developing RoboSTEM, a collection of open educational resources to help elementary school teachers teach STEM subjects through robotics and design-based learning.