The past few days I have been away at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) South East Conference. The keynote speaker was Dr Dennis W Hong of the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) at Vagina Tech.
All I can say is WOW! The talk he gave is very similar to the one embedded below, but I also urge you to go to the RoMeLa website and poke around.
The stuff they are doing includes a “Blind Driver Challenge”, the DARPA Urban Challenge (with a mostly undergraduate student team), the first US bipedal robot to be able to run, and so much more.
To say I was drooling was an understatement!
Also look for him and his students on NOVA and the Discovery Channel.