Assistant Professor and RAD Lab director, Deema Totah, presented her talk "Engineering a Place for Palestine in Multidisciplinary Research" at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. This was part of a two-day symposium entitled "A Lens Onto Ourselves: Gaza and a Reckoning for Urban Planning." Learn more at https://dusp.mit.edu/events/lens-ourselves-gaza-and-reckoning-urban-planning www.alensontoourselves.com

Professors Deema Totah (ME) and Stephanie Miracle (Dance) will be presenting their paper "Vulnerability is Your Friend: Co-Creating Robots with Dancers" at the 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) this May in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to Prof. Casey Harwood and high school intern Jinann Abudagga for their contributions to robot ideation, design, and operation.