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Media coverage, awards, papers, and milestones from the MOTIF Lab.

  • Aug 21, 2026 Media coverage

    USF News, FOX 13, and ABC7 Suncoast cover the lab's AI dashcam for post-hurricane road assessment

    Three Florida outlets reported on the lab's AI dashcam prototype, which automatically flags potholes, flooding, downed trees, and damaged signs so agencies can assess storm-damaged roads in hours instead of days — most recently ABC7 Suncoast, on the Sarasota County deployment.

    USF News ↗ FOX 13 Tampa Bay ↗ ABC7 Suncoast ↗

  • Aug 4, 2026 Publication

    New preprint: Scale-CDA brings AI-assisted cooperative driving to production cars for under $1,000

    A new lab preprint introduces Scale-CDA, an open-hardware/open-software toolchain that retrofits ordinary production cars for generative-AI-assisted cooperative driving automation using off-the-shelf parts costing under US $1,000.

    arXiv ↗

  • May 10, 2026

    MOTIF Lab website is live

    We launched the MOTIF Lab website. Replace this post with real news as it happens — accepted papers, grant awards, student milestones, talks given.

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Hao Zhou, Assistant Professor
haozhou1@usf.edu
4202 E. Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620

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