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Drs. Delbert Tesar and Chetan Kapoor, the Department of Mechanical Engineering Robotics Research Group’s director and associate director respectively, received the 2007 Outstanding Paper Award from the Emerald Literati Network for a paper published in the Industrial Robot Journal. Their paper titled, “Integrated teleoperation and automation for nuclear facility cleanup” demonstrates a novel approach to human machine interaction that seamlessly uses teleoperation, or operation at a distance, and automation in a complex environment. Delbert Tesar holds the Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engineering and is a fellow of Earnest F. Gloyna Regents Chair in Engineering.  Kapoor is the chief scientist for the Robotics Research Group.