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ARCO Lab at the McMaster Engineering Capstone Expo 2025

Three mechatronics capstone teams worked with Prof. Giamou over the 2024-2025 school year, and their work was on display at the McMaster Engineering Capstone Expo on April 8th. The EyeCan team pictured above with Prof. Giamou developed a system to detect dangerous heat in a kitchen environment and provide haptic feedback through a wearable device […]

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ARCO Lab Winter Recap

It’s been a while since we’ve posted, but the ARCO Lab team has had a busy winter! In addition to working hard on courses and research, we set up our first server, the Robotic Analysis and Intelligent Computation HUb (RAICHU) in a new lab space. At the end of the fall semester, everyone was rightfully […]

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ARCO Lab at the Midwest Optimization Meeting

The folks at ARCO Lab were delighted to attend the 26th Midwest Optimization Meeting (MOM26) on Friday, Nov. 9th and Saturday, Nov. 10th at The University of Waterloo. As roboticists interested in applying optimization theory, we learned a great deal, including how to think about Bayesian D-optimality as a special case of a more general […]

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Kicking off Fall 2024 with a BBQ!

ARCO Lab kicked off the fall semester with a BBQ! A big thank you to summer research students Cole, Charlotte, and Andrew for their hard work—best of luck with co-op and the new school year! We also welcomed new master’s students Hussein, Aliyah, Kiran, and Alaap. Our research focus this year is primarily on applying […]