Dennis Hong

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Founding Director of RoMeLa

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Korea, on the New Horizon : Ep09C02 Dennis Hong who Director of RoMeLa Virginia Tech

Published on Dec 25, 2013

This documentary tells about genuine education for the present age with shed new lights on proud Korean talent who are working on the world stage. This documentary describes the new government's purpose for 21st century with universal examples such as creative education, life with culture, cultivate people of talent and dream of having an advanced education.

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My seven species of robot - Dennis Hong

Published on Aug 15, 2013

Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots -- like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab's incredible technical success. (Filmed at TEDxNASA.)

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Real-Life Humanoid Robots Are Similar To 'Chappie' | Video

Published on Mar 5, 2015

Virginia Tech developed Tactical Hazardous Operations Robot (THOR-OP) and Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence (DARwIn) have similarities to the robot from the new film "Chappie." UCLA Labs robotic expert Dr. Dennis Hong explains. -- On Live Science: How Realistic Is the Film's Artificial Intelligence?
"'Chappie': How Realistic Is the Film's Artificial Intelligence?"

by Tanya Lewis
March 5, 2015

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RoMeLa: UCLA optimist Dennis Hong

Published on Apr 2, 2018

He’s building a better society with robots.

Dennis Hong
Director, Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory
What if there was a robot car that enabled blind people to drive? Or a robot designed to put out fires on ships? A robot that plays soccer? Stamps its feet when it’s angry or dances when it’s happy? These are all real projects designed in UCLA’s Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory by Professor Dennis Hong and his intrepid team of undergraduate and graduate students. Hong’s against-the-grain approach has made him one of the most sought-after scientists in the field: he blends art with science, mixing playful humanoid characteristics with startling methods of locomotion inspired by the amoeba. And his infectious passion has earned the man who decided to make building robots his life’s work after watching Star Wars the sobriquet “the Leonardo Da Vinci of robotics.”

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The robots of the future | Dennis Hong | TEDxManhattanBeach

Jun 10, 2022

Global robot scientist Dennis Hong explores a future where humanoids, built to mirror human intellectual and locomotive capabilities, take on repetitive, scaled, and even dangerous tasks. Washington Post Magazine called Dr. Dennis Hong, PhD “the Leonardo da Vinci of robots.”

Dr. Hong, a TED alumnus, is a Professor and Founding Director of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA. His research focuses on robot locomotion and manipulation, autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. He is the inventor of several novel robots and mechanisms, including the ‘whole skin locomotion’ for mobile robots inspired by how amoeba move and the world’s first car that can be driven by the blind. Dennis has been named to Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10”, “Forward Under 40” by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Association and honored as “Top 40 Under 40” alumni by Purdue University. Hong’s other awards include the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, the SAE International’s Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award and the ASME Freudenstein/GM Young Investigator Award to name a few.