{"id":5858,"date":"2012-12-07T14:27:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T14:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:31:26","slug":"students-to-show-off-robotic-innovations-at-demo-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/engineering-education\/students-to-show-off-robotic-innovations-at-demo-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Students to show off robotic innovations at demo day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite his clipped wings, Pepper the parrot is now mobile and a little quieter thanks to robotics.<\/p>\n<p>Pepper now cruises around in the Bird Buggy, a robot created by Andrew Gray, a 29-year-old electrical and computer engineering graduate student, for the intelligent machines design laboratory course.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the course instructors, The Bird Buggy, and 12 other robots created by students in the course, was on display Wednesday at this semester\u2019s Robot Media\/Guest Demo Day.<\/p>\n<p>Students worked all semester on autonomous robots that do not require continuous human guidance or remote controls to perform tasks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alligator.org\/news\/campus\/article_28155740-3e9a-11e2-a97a-0019bb2963f4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read story here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite his clipped wings, Pepper the parrot is now mobile and a little quieter thanks to robotics. Pepper now cruises around in the Bird Buggy, a robot created by Andrew Gray, a 29-year-old electrical and computer engineering graduate student, for the intelligent machines design laboratory course. Hosted by the course instructors, The Bird Buggy, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering-education","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38173,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions\/38173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}