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It鈥檚 been six years since the launch of startup company Aspero Medical, co-founded by Professor Mark Rentschler of the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering. The company has seen great success, including the development of
Computer science professor Nikolaus Correll and his lab at CU 抖阴传媒在线 have been awarded $1.8 million by the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to help establish a circular supply chain for domestic
The question may be the 21st century鈥檚 version of the fable of the tortoise and the hare: Who would win in a foot race between a robot and an animal?In a new perspective article, a team of engineers from the United States and Canada, including CU
William Xie, a first-year PhD student in computer science, is teaching a robot to reason how gently it should grasp previously unknown objects by using large language models (LLMs). DeliGrasp, Xie's project, is an intriguing step beyond
Kaushik Jayaram's bioinspired robotics are on the cover of the latest issue of the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems.The article, "Design of CLARI: A Miniature Modular Origami Passive Shape-Morphing Robot," discusses the
Assistant Professor Nicole Xu recently spoke with Nature for a feature about biohybrid robots and their real-world applications.Xu and her collaborators have been working on a jellyfish-inspired robot that can help monitor climate change and
In August, the California Public Utilities Commission made history when it voted to allow two self-driving car companies, Waymo and Cruise, to commercially operate their 鈥渞obotaxis鈥 around the clock in San Francisco.Within hours, Cruise reported at
One thousand feet underground, a four-legged creature scavenges through tunnels in pitch darkness. With vision that cuts through the blackness, it explores a spider web of paths, remembering its every step and navigating with precision. The sound of
Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram鈥檚 Animal Inspired Movement and Robotics Laboratory recently won the IROS Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, rising above around 3,000 other academic papers that were submitted to the IEEE/
Kaushik Jayaram's bug-inspired robots are being spotlighted by the 抖阴传媒在线 Daily Camera.An assistant professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Robotics Program, Jayaram is an expert in