About us
If you love robots, are working on robots, are an entrepreneur thinking about working on robots, or are a robot, come play with us and our robots! People of all knowledge and skill levels are invited to these meetups.
The goals of this community are to:
1. Help robot lovers of all kinds make lasting connections
2. Bring Boulder and Denver closer to being a leading robotics hub
3. Make robotics more friendly, fun, accessible, and approachable
What can you look forward to in this group?
- Meet the Robot: get a close up look at the robots of the Front Range and meet the teams behind them
- Happy Hours and Socials: find the right person for your project, make new friends, and catch up with familiar faces
- Research Presentations: a deeper dive into the state-of-the-art robotics technology
Upcoming events
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Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice
Standley Lake Library, 8485 Kipling Street, Arvada, CO, USJoin us in welcoming Associate Professor of Computer Science at the School of Mines, Dr. Tom Williams, who will be talking about MIRRORLab's work on Human Robot Interaction. He'll also be discussing his new book, Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice, where he explores critical questions at the intersection of robotics and social justice.
Schedule
~6:30pm: Presentation
~7:00pm: Questions and Social Time---
About Dr. Tom Williams
Tom Williams is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines, Director of the MIRRORLab, and author of Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice (2025).Tom earned joint PhDs in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Tufts University, and is an internationally recognized scholar of Human-Robot Interaction whose work examines cognitive, social, and moral dimensions of Human-Robot Interaction.
MIRRORLab
The Mines Interactive Robotics Research Lab is located in Golden, CO. and develops intelligent agents designed to interact naturally with human teammates. To do so, the lab seeks to combine computational methods and insights from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and human-robot interaction with robotic and augmented reality technologies.Degrees of Freedom Book
In Degrees of Freedom, Tom Williams explores critical questions at the intersection of robotics and social justice. He considers the ways in which roboticists design their robots’ appearance, how robots think and act, how robots perceive people, and the domains into which robots are deployed. The book highlights not only the ways roboticists tend to reinforce white patriarchal power structures but also how roboticists might instead subvert those power structures by applying theories and methods from a diverse range of fields.4 attendees
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