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Kaushik Jayaram envisions a day when swarms of tiny robots, some weighing no more than a paperclip, will crawl through airplanes or into buildings after an earthquake—searching for survivors or repairing components that no human could ever reach.“
Sean Humbert is unlocking the biological secrets of the common housefly to make major advances in robotics and uncrewed aerial...
It’s 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 Boulder 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’s 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 “robotaxis” 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