Virtual Reality Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
The students and faculty here are pioneering the use of VR technology in areas such as surgery, remote robotic control, volcanic simulation and factory design. The faculty involved in our projects pool their expertise from fields as diverse as mathematics, geology, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering and medical sciences. With our unique experience, industry partners and computational resources, the lab is answering the technological challenges of today with VR solutions.
02/10/2021
Request for Proposals Spring 2021 – Health Care Engineering Systems Center Request for Proposals Spring 2021 The Future of Health Care Post-COVID: Vaccination, Modeling, Prediction, Health Care Delivery, and Tele-Health View recording of the RFP Information Session held on 2/2/2021: Description The Jump Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulati...
01/14/2018
VR in medicine is becoming popular.
07/27/2017
Some clips from our new VR simulator for training doctors in carrying out better airway management. The project was done by our summer interns. Smart group of students!
03/24/2017
How Open-Source Robotics Hardware Is Accelerating Research and Innovation Open hardware systems could make robots more affordable and easier to build
07/09/2014
http://time.com/2962858/project-morpheus-and-magic-lab/
Virtual Reality and Eye Tracking: Sony's Vision of the Future - Insider Video PLayStation's R&D arm Magic Lab is dreaming up Oculus' competition: Project Morpheus. But that's not all they're creating.
03/26/2014
Facebook to Buy Oculus VR, Maker of Virtual Reality Headset The social networking company will pay $2 billion for the company, and said it had broader plans for the 3-D technology.
01/20/2014
Here is the IEEE VR video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSZ4S6AGA4&feature=youtu.be
Control of Robot Using a Brain Computer Interface Pramod Chembrammel, Naveen Kumar Sankaran, Thenkurussi Kesavadas. (2014). Control of Robot Using a Brain Computer Interface. To appear in IEEE Virtual Realit...
Happy to note that our video on the Brain Computer Interface research has been accepted for IEEE VR conference to be held in Minneapolis, MN in March of this year. Congratulations to Pramod for the video.
11/29/2013
Innovation Trail show had a small segment this morning about our BCI controlled project -
http://innovationtrail.org/post/mind-controlled-robots-no-longer-science-fiction
Mind-controlled robots no longer science fiction Researchers at the University at Buffalo are studying how mind-controlled robots can be utilized in the manufacturing sector. The team is also working to
11/15/2013
http://www.manmonthly.com.au/news/mind-controlled-robots-have-potential-for-use-in-m
Mind-controlled robots have potential for use in manufacturing Robots that are controlled by the human mind may be able to help workers in the field of advanced manufacturing, according to a US research team.
11/15/2013
http://www.geekosystem.com/robot-arm-mind-control/
University of Buffalo Researchers Use Headsets to Control Robot Arms with Their Minds Researchers at the University of Buffalo are working on an external headset that can allow humans to control robots with their minds.
11/13/2013
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2013/11/018.html
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