Automation Lab
The Automation Lab is a robotics and embedded systems workspace where faculty, students, staff, researchers, and other Brandeis community members can come to rapid-prototype electronic sensor data collection and actuation systems with rentable gear, step-by-step guides, and back-end equipment.
We serve all ability levels—whether you’re an electronics guru and want to test out a sensor for your research, or if you have no electronics background and want to start by taking one of our weekly “intro to soldering” trainings. We have public-facing, web-hosted getting-started guides for each sensor and actuator in our rental catalog with links to parts and tools used as well as commented example code.
Tim Hebert (Head of the Automation Lab) also supports projects using our High Performance Workstation, which is located in the Digital Scholarship Lab. We offer periodic workshops about machine learning, and Tim is also happy to collaborate on machine learning research projects.
Get Involved:
- Email BDI to set up an appointment with Tim Herbert (Head of the Automation Lab) about your robotics/embedded systems/machine learning project.
- Sign up for soldering training
- Join the Robotics Club
- Come visit! The Automation Lab is located in the back right corner of Goldfarb Library.
- Review the Automation Lab's full service catalog
