Richard M. Voyles, Ph.D.,
Daniel C. Lewis Professor

Richard M. Voyles, Ph.D.
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- Self-Adaptive Systems
- 4-D Printing / Meta-Materials
- Gesture-Based Programming
- Cyber-Animal Systems
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- Tactile Sensing
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- Grasping
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PhD positions are open in the Collaborative Robotics Lab in Precision Animal Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Form + Function 4D Printing.
Prof. Voyles has been named the Daniel C. Lewis Professor in Purdue Polytechnic Institute.
Prof. Voyles has been elected IEEE Fellow.
New class on Real-Time Computer Vision! Part of the Engineering Autonomous and Connected Systems emphasis.
Prof. Voyles presented a keynote talk at IEEE ICARA conference in Abu Dhabi, Feb 2023.
Prof. Voyles presented a keynote talk at ICRAI conference in Singapore, Dec 2022.
The Robotics Seminar "Power Women of Robotics" series wrapped up in fall of 2022. Thanks to Dean Ayanna Howard, Dept Head Nancy Amato, Director Jing Xiao, IEEE RAS President-Elect Aude Billard and more discussed robotics research and women in leadership!
Prof. Voyles was Assistant Director of Robotics and Cyber-Physical Systems, Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. Prior to that, he was leading the National Robotics Initiative at NSF.
Prof. Voyles hosts an interview with Dr. John Criscione on Robots 4 ID https://RoboticsForInfectiousDiseases.org.
Prof. Voyles presented a keynote talk at IEEE SSRR symposium in Nov 2022.
New class on Cyber-Animal Systems! Cross-listed with Animal Science.
Prof. Voyles was honored with a Purdue "Seeds for Success" Award.
Prof. Voyles was named an IN-MaC Manufacturing Fellow - Indiana Manufacturing Consortium.
See the new interview with Prof. Voyles on Disaster Robotics at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8-wOYv3Y5M
Specifications for the "Morphing Bus," a new paradigm in peripheral interconnect bus for high-performance embedded and mechatronic systems, have been released by the Collaborative Robotics Lab.

Professor and Director of the Robotics Accelerator

Prof. Voyles, the Daniel C. Lewis Professor of the Purdue Polytechnic, is head of the Collaborative Robotics Lab at Purdue University. Previously, he led the National Robotics Initiative at the National Science Foundation. He also served at the White House in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. He is now back to full-time duty at the Purdue Polytechnic.

See the New Interview with Professor Voyles

NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Robots and Sensors for the Human Well-Being at Purdue
IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics

B.S. Electrical Engineering
Purdue University, 1983

M.S. Manufacturing Systems Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)
Stanford University, 1989

Ph.D. Robotics (Computer Science)
Carnegie Mellon University, 1997

Professor of Engineering Technology at Purdue University with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer and Information Technology. Daniel C. Lewis Professor in Purdue Polytechnic, Indiana Manufacturing Institute Faculty Fellow, Head of the Collaborative Robotics Lab.

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NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Robots and Sensors for the Human Well-Being

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Richard M. Voyles, Ph.D.,Daniel C. Lewis Professor

Professor and Director of the Robotics Accelerator

See the New Interview with Professor Voyles

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Richard M. Voyles, Ph.D.,
Daniel C. Lewis Professor