Joomla! site syndication http://artsialliance.org 2012-02-05T15:12:31+01:00 http://artsialliance.org http://artsialliance.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2011-09-09T16:39:15+01:00 http://artsialliance.org http://artsialliance.org/Latest/Clement-Vomit-Comet In the summer of 2011, ARTSI students at Florida A M Unviersity, advised by Professor Clement Allen, flew with their robot on a NASA plane used to simulate zero-gravity environments. Known as the Vomit Comet , the airplane performs repeated climbs and dives, and during the dives, the occupants are weightless. The FAMU students were studying the use of a fan to keep a robot stably in contact with a surface so it could navigate under zero gravity conditions. text/html 2011-09-09T16:00:29+01:00 http://artsialliance.org http://artsialliance.org/Latest/Dekita-Moon-going-to-Clemson ARTSI student Dekita Moon from Fort Valley State University will be entering the PhD program in Computer Science at Clemson University in January 2012. Dekita completed a summer REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) internship at Carnegie Mellon in 2011, where she worked with Dr. Paul Rybski on the Snackbot robot, shown below.