University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering
Mechanical Science & Engineering

LaViers’ work featured in NAE publication

4/16/2020

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Catie Cuan (left) and Amy LaViers (right) perform “Trio,” an excerpt from Time to Compile, at the 2018 Dance NOW Festival, Joe’s Pub, Public Theater, New York; Ishaan Pakrasi (not shown) is operating the robot. Catie is an artist and graduate student in robotics at Stanford University and was the lab’s artist in residence 2017–18; Ishaan completed a master’s thesis in the lab at UIUC. The piece explored the feelings of frustration that occur both in programming a machine and in being a woman working in engineering. Image by Yi-Chun Wu.
Catie Cuan (left) and Amy LaViers (right) perform “Trio,” an excerpt from Time to Compile, at the 2018 Dance NOW Festival, Joe’s Pub, Public Theater, New York; Ishaan Pakrasi (not shown) is operating the robot. Catie is an artist and graduate student in robotics at Stanford University and was the lab’s artist in residence 2017–18; Ishaan completed a master’s thesis in the lab at UIUC. The piece explored the feelings of frustration that occur both in programming a machine and in being a woman working in engineering. Image by Yi-Chun Wu.
Assistant Professor Amy LaViers was recently interviewed the National Academy of Engineering’s quarterly publication, The Bridge (Spring 2020). The article covered in-depth her unique research combining engineering and dance in her Robotics, Automation and Dance (RAD) Lab at Illinois – and how she’s translating that work into complex robotic movement for uses in defense, among other projects.

The Bridge publishes opinion and analysis on engineering research, education, and practice; science and technology policy; and the roles of engineering and technology in society. The intent is to inform and stimulate debate and dialogue among NAE members as well as policymakers, educators, business leaders, and other interested citizens.

Read the interview here.

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This story was published April 16, 2020.