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.

Water, Water Everywhere Focus of New Sustainability Project

Five UW-Madison professors, including two of the campus’s most-lauded ecologists, recently received a five-year, nearly $5 million grant from the NSF to study…

Robot Arm Improves Performance of Brain-Controlled Device

Devices that translate brain activity into the movement of a computer cursor or an external robotic arm have already proven successful in humans. But in these…

Imaging science offers new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration

More than 170 participants gathered this week for the eighth annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference in Irvine, Calif. This year's…

Linking geometric problems to physics could open door to new solutions

Salvatore Torquato, a professor of chemistry, has shown that two abstract puzzles in geometry — known as the “covering” and “quantizer” problems — can be…

UM researchers are studying child-mother interactions to design robots with social skills

To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and…

Robotic gripper runs on coffee … and balloons

They call it a universal gripper, as it conforms to the object it's grabbing rather than being designed for particular objects, said Hod Lipson, Cornell…

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