Newsletter - Community News 5-18-23
Innovation Buffs
'One-of-a-kind' project: Sustainable artificial muscles could enable life-like movement in robots
Interesting Engineering—The primary goal of soft robotics is to achieve smooth and complex movement by mimicking the locomotion of soft bodies found in the environment. Researchers at CU Boulder and CU Boulder startup Artimus Robotics are leading innovation with a new type of "artificial muscle" to enable life-like movements.
New laser-based breathalyzer sniffs out COVID, other diseases in real-time
Scientists from CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made an important leap forward in the quest to diagnose disease using exhaled breath, reporting that a new laser-based breathalyzer—born of Nobel Prize-winning technology from CU—powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can detect COVID-19 in real-time with excellent accuracy.
Commercialization News
CU Boulder spinout Solid Power is building a better battery for consumers and the climate
In taking its technology from the lab to the streets, Solid Power is changing how electric vehicles run with less expensive, more efficient and safer battery technology.
Academic Innovation
Students tap into CU Boulder ecosystem to design water-purification system
College of Engineering and Applied Science—A group of mechanical engineering seniors has designed a water-purification system called Puresip, which is housed inside a bottlecap and shines ultraviolet radiation through a straw to purify the water as the user drinks. The team pitched their product at the New Venture Challenge (NVC).
Community Impact
CU Boulder class works to develop solutions for some of society’s biggest problems
Daily Camera—First-year students in a social innovations class at CU Boulder are coming up with solutions to some of society’s biggest problems through social entrepreneurship. Students in this class are tasked with identifying one problem in the world that they care about and creating a business plan to rectify the problem.