03/18/2025 - Assistant Professor Yuke Zhu has been named one of five IEEE’s Early Career Award winners for “groundbreaking contributions” in embodied artificial intelligence and robot learning.
02/25/2025 - Dr. Volkan Isler is a hands-on researcher. His work would often bring him to the same cropland his lab’s vehicles would test on. From wheat and corn to apples and oranges, Isler would take his Robotics, Sensing and Networks lab, formerly at the University of Minnesota, out on the fields. With a research army, uniformed in blue jeans and hoodies, Isler led his lab in advancements in autonomous robots for environmental monitoring and agricultural robotics.
01/02/2025 - Four undergraduate computer science researchers were recognized by the Computer Research Association in the 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award — the largest recognition of the department’s undergraduate research yet.
07/26/2018 - By Rachel Cooper, The Alcalde For the past month, the world has been watching national soccer teams from across the globe compete in a surprising and nail-biting World Cup. Although the U.S. didn’t make the cut for the 2018 version of the quadrennial tournament, there’s an unorthodox soccer team close to home that did pretty well on the international stage—a group of Longhorns and their goal-scoring robots.