{"590568":{"#nid":"590568","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ARMS \u0026 IRIM Robotics Symposium\u2013Nilanjan Sarkar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn conjunction with the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Interdisciplinary Traineeship Program in Human-Centered Robotics, known as Accessibility, Rehabilitation, and Movement Science (ARMS), presents its inaugural Robotics Symposium on Friday, April 21.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium features Vanderbilt\u0026#39;s Nilanjan Sarkar delivering a lecture on \u0026ldquo;The Promise of Robot-Assisted Autism Intervention.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELight refreshments and a student poster session will follow the lecture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event will be held in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 1116 East, from 12:30-1:30 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 1 in 68 children in the United States have an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).\u0026nbsp;ASD is associated with an enormous individual, familial, and social cost across a lifespan. There is an urgent need for efficacious treatments that can be delivered across resource-strained environments.\u0026nbsp;In this context, robotic technologies may yield intervention platforms with substantial promise for impacting early core symptoms of ASD. This seminar will provide a brief background of robotics research in ASD intervention and then introduce the research on the design and preliminary testing of robotic intervention platforms and environments for young children with ASD at Vanderbilt University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENilanjan Sarkar is a professor of Mechanical Engineering (primary) and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He received his Ph.D. from the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. He directs the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Lab and co-directs the Autos Lab at Vanderbilt. Sarkar\u0026rsquo;s research interests include dynamics, controls, robotics, and human-robot and human-machine interactions. Additionally, he is a fellow of the ASME.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn conjunction with the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Interdisciplinary Traineeship Program in Human-Centered Robotics, known as Accessibility, Rehabilitation, and Movement Science (ARMS), presents its inaugural Robotics Symposium on Friday, April 21.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium features Vanderbilt\u0026#39;s Nilanjan Sarkar delivering a lecture on \u0026ldquo;The Promise of Robot-Assisted Autism Intervention.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELight refreshments and a student poster session will follow the lecture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event will be held in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 1116 East, from 12:30-1:30 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ARMS \u0026 IRIM\u2019s inaugural Robotics Symposium features Vanderbilt University\u2019s Nilanjan Sarkar. 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