McLurkin to Deliver Presentation on Future of Robotics
The College of Engineering’s second Distinguished Lecture Series event of the fall takes place at 4:00 p.m. Monday, October 5, as the college welcomes James McLurkin for his presentation, “The Future of Robotics is Swarms: Why a Thousand Robots Are Better Than One.”
McLurkin, an adjunct professor at Rice University, is an expert in robotics and developing algorithms that run their programming, having won the 2003 Lemelson Foundation-MIT prize for invention, been named by Time magazine as one of five leading robotics engineers, and by Black Enterprise magazine as a “Best and Brightest Under 40.”