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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…
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…
More than 170 participants gathered this week for the eighth annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference in Irvine, Calif. This year's…
Salvatore Torquato, a professor of chemistry, has shown that two abstract puzzles in geometry — known as the “covering” and “quantizer” problems — can be…
To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and…
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…