The WPI-led project will target summer and after-school programs where middle and high school students will learn hands-on experience and training in collaborative robotics.

WPI, in partnership with DEKA Research and Development Corp., unveils the XRP, a new robotic platform poised to be a game changer for STEM education.

After all, Gennert said, the real benefit of WPI’s participation in Space Robotics is the challenge itself. “Robots, computers, space – that’s all in our DNA,” at WPI, he said.

Robotics use in elder care, household technologies and defense markets are growing rapidly, according to Carol Simpson, WPI provost and senior vice president.

Fischer has been head of the Automation and Interventional Medicine Robotics Research Laboratory at WPI since 2008. Before taking over as the company’s CEO, he acted as AiM's chief scientific ...

In addition to its academic programs, WPI’s Robotics Resource Center supports robotics projects, teams, events and K-12 outreach programs. Each year, WPI manages at least seven competitive ...

Worcester, Mass. - Seeking to explore potential applications for soft, deformable robots, a largely unexplored area of robotics engineering, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) professor has ...

AI also is a strategic research area for WPI, with faculty and students focused on the application of AI in health, learning sciences, game development, robotics, engineering, business, and global ...

Worcester, Mass. (Feb. 18, 2025)– Inspired by origami, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) robotics engineering researchers are developing a lightweight, flexible robotic arm that will enable ...

WPI undergraduate robotics engineering major Paul Ventimiglia’s team, Paul’s Robotics, beat 22 other teams at the 2009 Regolith (moondust) Excavation Challenge at NASA’s Ames Research Center ...

During the 2013 NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Challenge, teams will compete to demonstrate a robot that can locate and retrieve geologic samples from a wide and varied terrain without human control ...

Markus Nemitz, at the time an assistant professor of robotics engineering at WPI, and Jeremy Trilling, a 2022 graduate of WPI who was a student at the time, were tasked with designing the robot.