University of Michigan LocoLab

Contact

Get in touch

Guidance for prospective students, press inquiries, and information about the lab's facilities and location.

Email rdgregg at umich dot edu
Phone 734-763-1156
Office 2260 Ford Robotics Building
Mailing address University of Michigan, 2260 FRB, 2505 Hayward St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Prospective students

Before you email

Funded positions are reserved for admitted PhD students based on availability of funding. Please do not email me requesting a research assistant position before you have applied to a U-M PhD program. You may notify me when you apply so I can look for your application, but please be patient because the admissions process takes time.

Undergraduate or M.S. research opportunities may be available without financial support; feel free to send a resume and cover letter describing your interests. Unfortunately, I cannot sponsor visas for internships for international students. Note that I cannot reply to all inquiries, as I receive multiple per day.

How to write a cover letter

Be exciting, concise, and realistic. Hit these key points in three to four paragraphs, and never go beyond one page.

  1. For what position are you applying? Who are you? What is your mission statement?
  2. What are you going to do, and why is this the perfect place to do it?
  3. Why are you the right person to do it?
  4. Closing formalities and reference information.

Doctoral applications are handled through the Robotics Department, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science graduate programs.

Press & media

Interview and background requests

For interview requests, expert commentary, or background on our research, email rdgregg at umich dot edu directly. Lay summaries of the lab's research directions are on the Research page; recent grants, publications, and other lab news are on the News page.

Facilities

Where the work happens

The laboratory occupies space in the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building on U-M's North Campus, with a motion-capture gait laboratory, an ambulation circuit for multi-activity testing, and benches for actuator fabrication and characterization. Explore the lab.

Panorama of the gait laboratory with an instrumented treadmill, motion-capture cameras, and workbenches.
Gait laboratory: instrumented treadmill, motion capture, and adjacent benches
Ambulation circuit with a raised walkway, staircase, ramp, and instrumented floor panels.
Ambulation circuit: stairs, ramp, walkway, and instrumented floor panels
Benchtop assembly space with tools and exoskeleton components.
Assembly and prototyping benches
Motor characterization test station with dynamometer hardware and instrumentation.
Motor and actuator characterization station
Exterior of the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building at the University of Michigan.

Ford Motor Company Robotics Building

2505 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The building houses the U-M Robotics Department and shared testing facilities, and places our laboratory alongside groups in legged locomotion, controls, and rehabilitation engineering.