Selected Press
UCSD News re. 2022 MURI award 1) Mission Critical: How Humans and Robots can Team Up in Uncertain Environments, 2) UC San Diego Researchers Win Big, May 2022.
Science, Dream Machine: Robots help some sick children attend school. Feb 2022.
PC Magazine, Teaching Robots to Navigate Hectic Emergency Rooms is No Easy Task, May 2021.
Tech Briefs, Navigation System Guides Robot Through Busiest Hospital Areas. May 2021.
Eureka Alert, This system helps robots better navigate emergency rooms. Apr 2021.
CBS News, UC Researchers Awarded 1.2 million dollar grant to develop low cost, easy to operate robots to use in Post COVID-19 world. Mar 2021.
UC San Diego Health, $1.2 Million Grant Funds a New Generation of Healthcare Telemanipulation Robots, Jan 2021.
UCSD The Week, Robots to Help Children Touch the Outside World, Sep 2020.
Wall Street Journal, Rethinking the Hospital for the Next Pandemic, Jun 2020
Seniors Helping Seniors, Robotic Caregiving Research Is Expanding, Jul 2019.
Digital Trends, The promise and pitfalls of using robots to care for the elderly, Jun 2019
Greying California, Experts Weigh In, May 2019
McKnight's Senior Living, Study identifies characteristics that robots used for dementia support should have, May 2019
Science Daily, Eureka Alert, Engineers Journal, Science Times The robots that dementia caregivers want: Robots for joy, robots for sorrow, Mar 2019
News Medical Life Sciences, Dementia caregivers design robots for alleviating stress and increasing joyful moments, Mar 2019
Innovation Toronto, Robot helpers for the joy and sorrow of dementia, Mar 2019
UCSD News, From Caregivers to Hospital and Surgery Assistants: The Future of Healthcare Robotics, Nov 2018
IEEE Spectrum, Video Friday: Cassie's Star Wars AT-ST Costume, and More. Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos, Nov 2018
Nerdist, Asking the Experts What They See in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (on 4K), Jul 2018
New Scientist, Robot that shows pain could teach doctors to recognise it better, Mar 2017
San Diego Union Tribune, UCSD Gets $1M to make robots more helpful to workers, Sep 2016
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, The Air Force Office of Scientific Research Awards Grants to 56 Scientists and Engineers through its Young Investigator Research Program, Jan 2016.
Communications of the ACM, How Researchers are Turning 'Star Wars' Droids Into Reality, Dec 2015.
National Science Foundation, Research seeks to make robotic "human patient simulations", Aug 2015.
Healthcare Dive. How Current Robotics Advancements Can Have Real World Applications, April 2015.
ASEE, 20 Faculty Under 40. Laurel Riek: Responsive Robots, Sept 2014.
Robots Podcast, A Code of Ethics for HRI Practitioners, 2014
CBC Radio, Radio Interview on Spark with Nora Young, 2014
John J. Reilly Center, Reilly Center elects four new fellows, 2014
Notre Dame News, Three College of Engineering faculty receive CAREER awards, 2013
The Observer, Students, Faculty to Display Robot Creations, 2013
South Bend Tribune, PacBot 'more fun than the video game', 2012