Alumnus Reza Ghanadan interviewed about advances for more 'human-like' robots

Alumnus Reza Ghanadan (EE Ph.D. 1993), program manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office, was interviewed in an article on the website c4isrnet.com. Ghanadan talked about how robots could one day be given a basic set of human manners that would help them better interact with people they encounter. Read the story here.

At Maryland, Ghanadan was advised by Professor Gil Blankenship (ECE).

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