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I am an instructor in the IDeATe program, an interdisciplinary program at Carnegie Mellon University which brings together students from all schools to develop combined practices in art, design, technology, engineering, science, and the humanities. My speciality is Physical Computing, and I teach courses which combine robotics, engineering, drama, and art. My home department is the Robotics Institute within the School of Computer Science.

My art practice includes dynamic fabric robots and other performance machines. My robotics research interests include human-robot interaction, minimalist mechanisms, compliant manipulation, and legged locomotion.

Personal

[CV] [photo] [plan file] [RI People entry]

Current Courses

[Creative Kinetic Systems (Fall), 16-223]

[Robotics for Creative Practice (Fall), 16-375/54-375]

[Kinetic Fabrics (Spring), 16-376]

[Creative Soft Robotics (Spring), 16-480/53-399]

[Interaction & Expression using the Pausch Bridge Lighting (Spring), 15-661/62-661]

Research

[projects] [interests] [publications] [bipeds] [Bow Leg] [manipulator design]

Art

[main art site] [kinetic fabric sculpture] [robot performance] [multimedia performances] [talking mirrors]

[robot drama] [ProCam for children] [McBlare] [miscellaneous projects]

[Rossum’s][affiliations]

Contact

“garthz” AT “cmu.edu”

Robotics Institute / Newell-Simon Hall 3215 / Carnegie Mellon University / Pittsburgh, PA 15213 / USA

office: 412-268-5909 / plan file

Related

[IDeATe] [Robotics Institute] [School of Computer Science] [Carnegie Mellon University] [Rossum’s]

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Last updated: 2023-04-21