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Dagmar Sternad
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Dagmar, Aleksei, and Mahdi featured in Northeastern Global News on Whip Task
As part of the whip project, Jack the Whipper, a professional whip performer, visited the action lab as a subject for a motion capture and kinematic data collection session. By testing the limits of human motor control, we may begin to answer questions on how to apply such complex tasks towards robotics. See the full article here.

Jack the Whipper Visits Action Lab
For our whip-cracking project, Jack the Whipper, a professional whip-cracking stage performer, visited our lab and we recorded very cool motion capture and kinematic data. It was a blast!
Dagmar Receives Excellence in Mentoring Award
Dagmar received an award for Excellence in Mentoring from Northeastern – below are some happy faces!

From left to right: Mohsen, Dagmar, Helene, and Aleksei