• IMSA post-doc Henrique Houayek and IMSA directors Keith Evan Green and Ian Walker are co-authors of the just-released Verlag monograph, The Animated Work Environment: An Architectural-Robotic System for a Digital Society.

• IMSA director Keith Evan Green and Mark Gross of Carnegie Mellon University will co-host ARCHIBOTS, the first international workshop in Architectural Robotics at UBICOMP 2009. The workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation.

• A comprehensive video of the Animated Work Environment project was accepted for the peer-reviewed video program of IROS 2009, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

• iTOI, a YouTube video produced by grad students in "Architectural Robotics" and co-taught by IMSA's Keith Evan Green and Ian Walker, was viewed 200,000 times!

• Drawings of IMSA's "AWE" were featured in the prime-time ABC Family TV show, Lincoln Heights, episode-3, "The New Wild Ones."

• In Summer 2008, Henrique Houayek and supervisor and IMSA director Keith Evan Green were awarded 3rd Prize in the International Design Competition, DI Designers' Workstation for their digital-physical, robot-enabled workstation. The same project was also featured at Portugal's Oporto Show Trade Fair of Design, Interiors and Architecture.