Interdisciplinary Research

News and developments from the field of interdisciplinary research.

Among other topics, you can find stimulating reports and articles related to microsystems, emotions research, futures research and stratospheric research.

ONR Helps Undersea Robots Get the Big Picture

“Using the new algorithms, the vehicle has a greater ability to make its own decisions without requiring a human in the loop,” said Marc Steinberg, program…

Nanowrinkles, nanofolds yield strange hidden channels

In many cases, they are nature's ingenious way of packing more surface area into a limited space. Scientists, mimicking nature, have long sought to manipulate…

Center for Adaptive Robotics launched

Whether in industrial manufacturing, tumor radiation therapy, or space travel, robots support humans in a variety of areas. Since 2009, scientists from the…

Robojelly Gets an Upgrade: Underwater Robot Learns to Swim More Like the Real Thing

Developed for the Office of Naval Research in 2009, this vehicle was designed to conduct ocean underwater surveillance, enabling it potentially to detect…

Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics researchers

Much to humans' chagrin, bacteria have superior survival skills. Their decision-making processes and collective behaviors allow them to thrive and even spread…

Architecture and design help the brain to recover

New research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, into how the space around us affects the brain reveals that well-planned architecture, design and…

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