Daniela Rus is professor in the EECS Department at MIT and a member of CSAIL at MIT. Previously, she was a professor in the computer science department at Dartmouth College. She holds a PhD degree in computer science from Cornell University. Her research interests include distributed robotics, mobile computing, and self-organization. She was the recipient of an NSF Career award and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. She is a class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow.

Education Workshop Co-organized the Robotics Education Workshop during the 2005 Robotics Systems and Science Conference Working on developing an integrated approach to teaching robotics that will train students simultaneously in foundational aspects of designing, controlling, and programming robots and embedded systems.

Activities Accomplished Our robot AMOUR has swam in the Malaria swimmathon on December 3, 2005. The money raised by this event raised money for 272 mosquito nets. Take a look at worldswimformalaria for details and click here if you wish to be a sponsor.

Teaching

6.141 Robotics Science and Systems (Part I)
6.142 Robotics Science and Systems (Part II)

Research:

Daniela is Co-Director (with Tomas Lozano-Perez) of the CSAIL Center for Robotics.

Please see the page of the center: CSAIL Center for Robotics for our activities.

For more information on Daniela's current projects, publications, activities, collaborations, and group, please see the page of the group: DRL .

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