Principal Investigator Varol wins a three year grant awarded by Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan
ARMS Lab principal investigator, Dr. Atakan Varol, has recently won a new three year grant through the competitive funding scheme of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In his project “Optimal Design and Control of Variable Impedance Actuated Robots”, Dr. Varol with the co-principal investigator Dr. Matteo Rubagotti and junior […]
State Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan visits ARMS Lab
State Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Gulshara Abdykalikova, visited Nazarbayev University yesterday, November 20. Ms. Abdykalikova gave a lecture on “The role of human capital in sustainable development of Kazakhstan”. After the public speech Ms. Abdykalikova had a university tour where she was introduced to the Library, School of Engineering and ARMS laboratory of […]
ARMS Lab participates in the First International Technology Commercialization Forum in Astana
First International Technology Commercialization Forum was held on November 4-5 2014 in Korme Expo Center of Astana, Kazakhstan. Technology Commercialization Project is a program launched in 2010 by the Minstry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the World Bank. The first day of the event started with presentation of first projects […]
ARMS Lab Teleoperation Project at the KUKA Innovation Award 2014 Finals
KUKA is a leading robotics company from Germany with sales exceeding 1 billion Euros introducing innovative products to the industrial robotics market frequently. In 2013, KUKA announced a competition for allowing technology transfer from research institutions to the industry in the emerging field of mobile manipulation. Our entry for this competition “Inertial Motion Capture based […]
Hybrid Quadruped Research Presented at IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE) 2014
ARMS lab researcher Artur Saudabayev and undergraduate researcher Damir Nurseitov attended IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics which took place in fascinating Istanbul, Turkey, on June 1-4, 2014. The oral presentation of the paper “Depth Image based Terrain Recognition for Supervisory Control of a Hybrid Quadruped” given by Artur Saudabayev was well received by the audience of “Intelligent Robotic […]
ARMS Lab attend exhibition at Parliament of Republic of Kazakhstan and ASTEX 2014
ARMS Laboratory participates in the science and technology exhibition at the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Astana Smart Technologies Exhibition (ASTEX) 2014. The team presented their works to members of Kazkhstani’s Parliament on May 16 and later, May 19-20, to a broader public attending the ASTEX 2014 exhibition in Astana’s Media Center. The group presented […]
ARMS Lab participates in IEEE HRI 2014 Conference (Bielefeld, Germany)
Undergraduate researcher Nursultan Imanberdiyev, research assistant Yerbolat Khassanov and the principal investigator of ARMS Lab Dr. Atakan Varol attended the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2014) organized by the Bielefeld University between 3rd and 6th of March. ARMS researchers also visited labs of Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC).Two late breaking reports on the teleoperation […]
New Springer book chapter by ARMS lab researcher on design of robot hands published
“Biomimicry and the Design of Multigrasp Transradial Prostheses” – a book chapter authored by H Atakan Varol, Skyler A Dalley, Tuomas E Wiste, and Michael Goldfarb is published this month in “The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development” book. The book is published by Springer as a part of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. The […]
ARMS Laboratory Research Shared with NU Community at the Research Week
Nazarbayev University Research Week was held in Astana on November 25 – 29, 2013. Revealing the diversity and quality of the research being carried out in the university, the event was highly appreciated and praised by both visitors and participants.ARMS laboratory members presented four projects that are currently under development. Posters of the projects printed […]
ARMS Laboratory personnel received XSens Motion Capture System Training
ARMS Laboratory personnel received XSens Motion Capture System Training.
