News

• Sep 2, 2020

  Two IMG papers are accepted at IROS 2020!

  The papers will be presented at the conference this October.
• Aug 22, 2020

  Can Robots Keep Humans from Abusing Other Robots?

  IEEE Spectrum published an article about one of our recent HRI papers!
• Jul 15, 2020

  Science Robotics Focus Article

  A new article by IMG and the Yale Social Robotics Lab discusses the potential of socially assistive robots during disease outbreaks.
• Jul 12, 2020

  Amazon Research Award

  Marynel Vázquez is a recipient of the 2019 Amazon Research Award.
• Jun 5, 2020

  We have released the VectorConnect app in collaboration with the Yale Social Robotics Lab

  We made a mobile application to enable children to play remotely with their peers and friends through a Vector robot. Thanks to the generous donation of Yale Alumni, we have a limited number of Vector robots that we are providing for free to families in Connecticut.
• Feb 16, 2020

  IMG participates in the 2020 HRI Pioneers Workshop

  Joe Connolly was accepted to the HRI Pioneers Workshop and Marynel will be presenting at the event as well!
• Dec 12, 2019

  Three IMG papers are accepted!

  In the last few weeks, two papers were accepted at HRI'20 and one was accepted at CSCW'20.
• Sep 1, 2019

  New NSF NRI Project

  Thanks to NSF, IMG will continue investigating methods to advance autonomous reasoning about spatial patterns of group behavior during human-robot interactions.