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Blue and white partially woven cloth on an unseen loom.
Unstable Design Lab announces new experimental weaving residency
Four hot swappable inputs for the game, including a knob, a joystick, an analog button and a clicky button.
Student-developed, multi-input game accepted to 2019 Game Developers Conference
Makenna Turner
Laboratory for Playful Computation teen researcher wins CBS4 award
Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro: How Machine Learning Impacts the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum
Carson Bruns
Carson Bruns to speak at TEDxMileHigh
Simone Hyater-Adams
Simone Hyater-Adams wins Harry Lustig Award
Laura Devendorf
Digital loom arrives in Unstable Design Lab
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Carson Bruns, holds his gloved hands forward and holds a wooden CU logo in his left hand and a piece of pig's skin with the CU logo on it outlined by a square of blue ink

Chameleon tattoos change color, may help diagnose illness

Carson Bruns, assistant professor and director of ATLAS Institute's Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials, is developing a series of “tech tattoos” that could provide a new window to the human body.

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Student is trying to crack the code to a safe in the Safe Cracking class.

Safecracking class teaches engineering skills, ethical hacking

Students in a new ATLAS class are stretching their technological and design skills by taking on a challenge straight from a heist movie. Read more
Person tattooing pig skin

Carson Bruns shares Tech Tattoos project on CBS4

Carson Bruns discusses health and expressive potential for tattoo inks that change color in response to different stimuli. Read more
Fetch, a four-foot-tall robot is shown to attendees of the ATLAS Research Showcase.

A robotic helping hand

Research that helps robots understand gestures and the often vague nature of language will pave the way to mechanical beings taking on human tasks, from assembling children's toy castles on Christmas morning to caring for elderly relatives, says Dan Szafir, assistant professor at the ATLAS Institute and director of the IRON lab. Read more
Daniel Leithinger looks from an iPad.

Convergence of the Physical and Digital Worlds (Signal magazine)

Daniel Leithinger, assistant professor at the ATLAS Institute and director of the THING lab, sees a time coming when computer screens can be replaced by 3D, shape-changing displays that render digital information tangibly. Read more
Auguste uses a Markes Micro-chamber to extract volatile organic compounds from a sample.

Donna Auguste honored by Tau Beta Pi with ‘eminent engineer’ title

Donna Auguste, ATLAS PhD student, is the first person at CU Boulder in roughly a decade to receive the prestigious "eminent engineer" designation from the national engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi. Read more
ATLAS Institute graduate student Peter Gyory, right, demonstrates the new 3D design platform he is developing with THING Lab Director Daniel Leithinger.

Over 200 visitors at Second Annual ATLAS Research Showcase

Tattoos that change color in sunlight, control systems that help robots anticipate your needs, integrating circuits into smart textiles: these were just a few of the projects demonstrated at ATLAS Institute's Second Annual Research Showcase. Read more
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