Assistant Professor Reka Barton in @UMDCollegeofEd created the Children’s Literature Project to help incarcerated mothers process and heal from trauma by reading and writing children’s books. “The goal is to create a safe space where the women can use children’s books as bibliotherapy,” said Barton. today.umd.edu/umd-scholar-he…

Researchers at the University of Maryland are advancing the frontiers of robotics by opening up one of the most chaotic environments of all: typical, cluttered homes. Their new initiative is designed to enable humanoid systems to perform complex, real-world household tasks with unprecedented autonomy and reliability. Built on @nvidia AI infrastructure through its Academic Grant Program, the project integrates breakthroughs in trustworthy machine learning, sequential decision-making and generative AI to create robotic systems that can reason, adapt and act in ever-changing domestic environments. The effort is led by Furong Huang, an associate professor of computer science, and Tom Goldstein, a professor of computer science. Both hold appointments in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (@umiacs), which will install and maintain the new computing infrastructure in its high-performance data center. today.umd.edu/umd-researcher…