On November 7, 2026, the XRAI Lab staffed a table at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) booth at Cardinal View. The lab brought a mobile manipulator, a mixed reality (MR) training system, and two robot-arm demonstrations.
Husky A300 with a Kinova Gen3 lite arm
The first demonstration was the lab’s Clearpath Husky A300, an outdoor ground vehicle, carrying a Kinova Gen3 lite 6-DOF arm on its top plate. Rohith Naini and Mohammad Asifur Rahman Rabby drove the robot and operated the arm for visitors at the booth.
Specifications and accessories for the platform are listed on the Lab page.
Pictured below with the Husky: Mohammad Asifur Rahman Rabby (left) and Rohith Naini (right), with another lab member in the middle.
MR hurricane responder training
The second demonstration was the lab’s MR training system for hurricane response. It runs on a Meta Quest 3s standalone and overlays augmented-reality flooding on the real surroundings of the wearer.
Dr. Samuel Jator, Dean of the Lamar University College of Engineering, tried the AR flooding system at the booth unde guidance of Dr. Yang.
A demo video of the system:
Robot demonstrations at the ISE table
Rafiul Azim Jowarder showed a robot driven by a large language model (LLM) carrying out a simple pick-and-place task.
Arina Cunningham showed a robot arm drawing simple line sketches, several of which are on the table in the photo.
The group
The photo below shows the ISE group with the other College of Engineering staff and students at the end of the event.
