Category: Engineering

Humans can grab a book from a shelf with little obvious thought. But it’s a complex…

08/29/2024    Mallory Lindahl

Twenty high school students gathered in huddles across a classroom, each hunched over a computer or fiddling with a small tri-legged robot. In one corner, students attempted to make the robot…

08/22/2024    Mallory Lindahl

Motor impairments currently affect about 5 million people in the United States. Physically assistive robots not only have the potential to help these individuals with daily tasks, they can…

08/15/2024    Marylee Williams

For a few hours on a Friday afternoon, a shrine stood in a lab at the end of a first-floor corridor in Wean Hall. Inside a nearly 9-foot tent, people solved four different puzzles to reveal…

08/09/2024    Mallory Lindahl

The robot arm autonomously identifies an optimal stalk and follows a motion sequence to position the stalk inside the gripper.

Corn is one of the most essential ingredients in global industry…

08/06/2024    Marylee Williams

Every second matters to emergency medical teams as they approach a mass casualty event and identify who needs immediate treatment. Breakthroughs in medical triage using robotics, artificial…

08/01/2024    Mallory Lindahl

From the hallways of hospitals to the farthest reaches of outer space, robots are transforming the way we interact with our world. In her new book “Robots,” Henny Admoni, associate…

07/30/2024    Byron Spice

Yuichi Hirose has a dream — a dream that someday everyone will have access to a machine capable of knitting furniture.

This machine wouldn’t just knit the furniture’s exterior fabric, but…