robotics and autonomous systems

  • April 16, 2024

    George Mason University officially opened its Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center, a collaborative space where students will perform research on a variety of emerging fields related to artificial intelligence and autonomous devices.

  • June 13, 2023

    The invite-only roundtable, hosted by the College of Engineering and Computing at Mason Square, explored the issues, challenges, and solutions to think about as AI technologies rapidly evolve and change.  The roundtable was led by Missy Cummings, director of Mason’s Autonomy and Robotics Center.

  • January 18, 2023

    A team of six from George Mason earned an award for teamwork and collaboration at the 2022 Maritime RobotX competition in Australia after working with competitors from two other universities.

  • January 3, 2023

    Drawn by Mason’s multidisciplinary research and teaching, Missy Cummings will create a new program in the design and deployment of Artificial Intelligence.

  • Tue, 08/09/2022 - 16:13

    Research Interests: Field Robotics, Motion Planning, Machine Learning

  • Mon, 01/31/2022 - 15:17

    Research Interests: Bio-medical robots, soft robotics

  • July 20, 2021

    Leigh McCue, associate professor and interim chair of mechanical engineering is looking to take a deeper dive into her research at the Vessel Dynamics Lab. The recent recipient of the Beck Foundation Faculty Fellow award is building a fleet of maritime robots and will use the funds from the award to expand this work.

  • Mon, 08/10/2020 - 14:42

    Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, multi-agent games

  • Tue, 07/14/2020 - 11:51

    Research Interests: Reasoning and navigation under uncertainty and unknown environments, perception and learning

  • Mon, 09/23/2019 - 12:32

    Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, advanced materials, failure mechanics