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I am a researcher at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My research interests include legged locomotion and minimalist mechanisms. I am currently working with Professor Chris Atkeson developing bipedal walking robots and Professor Nancy Pollard on compliant dextrous manipulation.
I am a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Ph.D. program. As a graduate student I was a member of the Manipulation Lab, advised by Matt Mason and Ben Brown. For my doctoral thesis I developed planning algorithms to control a novel locomotion machine, the Bow Leg Hopper. The thesis document is available on my publications page.
My art practice currently includes kinetic fabric sculpture which combines fabric structure, actuators, lighting, and sensors, and multimedia performances based on interactive transformative processes. I have also worked with talking mirrors which reveal contributed stories and secrets, plus a few miscellaneous projects and affiliations.
I am also a co-founder of Rossum's, a forum for artists working with robotics. This group was created by Ian Ingram and myself in order to bring together artists and engineers interested in robotic and mechatronic art. The format is an informal working group which meets regularly to discuss practical and conceptual issues in our works. The focus is on work which combines the digital and mechanical in embodied forms. Rossum's had two shows in 2007, Mechanosphere and The Uncanny Valley Rally.
"garthz" AT "ri.cmu.edu" / PGP public key
Robotics Institute / A525 Newell-Simon Hall / Carnegie Mellon University / Pittsburgh, PA 15213 / USA
office: 412-268-5909 / home: 412-244-9054 / plan file
In new school web style, I have an rarely updated blog.
In old school web tradition, I have some pages of useful links.
Some of my older content pages have moved to my archival page.
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Garth Zeglin, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.