Robot Interaction Laboratory Receives Advanced Mapping Robots as a Donation

The Robot Interaction Laboratory at the School of Computing and Information Science (director: Dr. Reinhard Moratz) recently got a donation from the Maine-based company PenBaySolutions (Chief Technology Officer: Stuart Rich) of three advanced mapping robots. Currently the students Chris Dorr and Seraphina Orsini are working with the equipment to build augmented indoor maps. This will help to further expand an NSF funded project that aims at supporting blind users with tactile indoor maps of public buildings like hotel lobbies, restaurants, and event facilities. This is a cooperation with the VEMI lab at the School of Computing and Information Science (director: Dr. Nicholas Giudice).