Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence
Pioneering Scientific Results and Industrial Applications
The Center is focused on research that leads to pioneering results in science, as well as industry applications
The worldwide first distance learning robotics education
2002. Teacher from SCSU Nance Hall 2018 lab, teaching a class for students in Skopje, Macedonia. The students are controlling a robot in Nance Hall 218 via Internet
Figure: 2002. The class CS480 Introduction to Robotics communication portal for distance education. Here it is shown the class chat between the Instructor at SCSU and a student at Sts. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia. At the end of session the robot is at home base, the camera showing the text "Welcome to home base".
Internet of Things (IOT)
2002 A robotic camera sending images from USA to computers in Macedonia.
Figure: SCSU Internet of Things 2002. The robot camera sending images of movement in a Nance Hall corridor, to student class in Macedonia via Internet. The camera shows that the robot is in the corridor, facing the stairways door of the second floor Nance Hall.
The worldwide first robot selfie
2002. The SCSU robot coming in front a mirror and taking own camera picture.
Figure: 2002. Worldwide first robot selfie: Robot Adriel 8 of type cye with a camera in front of a mirror taking picture of itself from the mirror. Robot is in SCSU Nance Hall 218 while image is viewed by students from Macedonia.
- Introduction of Genetic engineering in Computer Science lab activities
SCSU was first institution worldwide that included Genetic Engineering in the Computer Science Lab activities.
Figure: 2010: Computer Science students working on a genetic engineering task in the Medical Science and Neurophysiology Lab in the Biology Department. The Lab is part of the Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence.
Recognition from United Kingdom Academy of Sciences for a historic achievement in science
2019. Royal Society from London (UK Academy of Sciences), the oldest scientific society with continuous existence, the one that published Newton's Principia Mathematica in 1687, in 2019 published a chart of evolution of electrophysiology where among other historic steps, the 1988 result of the members of this Center is mentioned. The 1988 achievement was the first control of a robot using brain signals.
Figure: The Royal Society placement in history chart of the 1988 event of controlling a robot using EEG signals. The reference paper [64] is: S. Bozinovski, M. Sestakov, L. Bozinovska “Using EEG alpha rhythm to control a mobile robot” Proc IEEE Conf. on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, New Orleans, LA, 1988
Industry application, International collaboration
2021. The Center carried out an international collaboration with the American College in Skopje, Macedonia. The project was on robotization of an industrial warehouse, where an industry stacker crane was robotized, by replacing the human driver with a microcontroller-based driver.
Figure: Robotized crane for fetch/put a box in an industrial warehouse.
Designation IEEE Milestone achievement
2023. A scientific achievement, First Control of a Physical Object (a Robot) using Brain Signals, achieved in 1988, was designated IEEE Milestone, by Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). With that SCSU becomes the only university in both South and North Carolina with such a designation for an achievement of its faculty members. Two faculty members from the center of Robotics and Embodied Intelligence, Stevo and Liljana Bozinovski contributed to this designastion.
Figure: IEEE Milestone achievement: First control of a physical object, a robot, using brain signals, 1988.
Middle of the Figure: the observed EEG
Top of the Figure: Emulation of Schmitt trigger that recognizes EEG and sends rectangular signal to move/stop the robot
Bottom right of the Figure: The controlled Elehobby Line Tracer robot, purchased at Akihabara Market in Tokyo, Japan, in 1984