Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center

Missy Cummings, the Director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC) speaks to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about human blindspots when using autonomous systems technologies.

Seniors created an automated vehicle model as part of the Army Strategic Program for Innovation, Research, and Employment (ASPIRE).

The College of Engineering and Computing hosts a national robotics competition at EagleBank Arena.

Missy Cummings, one of the country’s first female fighter pilots and the director of Mason’s autonomy and robotics center, calls herself a tech futurist, charged with making tech work and helping it get better. She isn’t shy about calling out bad tech either, including the vision systems in self-driving cars and Tesla’s Autopilot.

A team of six from George Mason earned an award for teamwork and collaboration at the 2022 Maritime RobotX competition in Australia after working with competitors from two other universities.

Research Interests: Perception, tactile sensing, robotic manipulation

Kirkpatrick's research is interdisciplinary, cutting across such fields as Philosophy, Political Science, Public Policy, and Computer Science

Research Interests: Distributed learning for MAS, resilient multi-robot systems, distributed resource allocation, human-in-the-loop for MAS

Leigh McCue, associate professor and interim chair of mechanical engineering is looking to take a deeper dive into her research at the Vessel Dynamics Lab. The recent recipient of the Beck Foundation Faculty Fellow award is building a fleet of maritime robots and will use the funds from the award to expand this work.

Research Interests: Computer architecture, CMOS VLSI ASIC design, FPGA-based system design, and GPU architecture and programming