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RoadPrintz Inc., with technology created at ϳԹ, secures additional funding to advance robotic street-painting vehicle
Following a fall 2019 license agreement between RoadPrintz Inc. and ϳԹ, the company is now building a prototype street-painting vehicle to demonstrate to leading national industry partners that the technology can provide street-painting cheaper, faster and with significa...
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Seeking human connections across time and space
ϳԹ research team from new Human Fusions institute aims for $10 million Avatar XPrize competition; winner will best ‘transport a human’s sense, actions and presence’ to another place In 15 years at ϳԹ, Dustin Tyler has been on a mission to extend physic...
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CES 2020: ϳԹ set for seventh year in Vegas
From password protection entrepreneur to an Alexa hackathon champion, teams sponsored by university and LaunchNet programs are ready to demo From “tricked-out” robots to augmented and virtual reality to sound-warping software, the entrepreneurial and inventive best from ϳԹ Univers...
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ϳԹbotix Club places in several categories at the NASA Robotic Mining Competition
The campus ϳԹbotix Club recently competed in the annual NASA Robotic Mining Competition. The aim of the competition is to create a robot that is able to traverse an obstacle field, mine as much gravel beneath a regolith covering as possible, and return through the obstacle field to deposit the gra...
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Robots reading feelings
Researchers boast 98 percent accuracy for robots recognizing facial cues; could improve video gaming today, health care tomorrow Robots are getting smarter—and faster—at knowing what humans are feeling and thinking just by “looking” into their faces, a development that might one day allow more emo...
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Optimizing the human-robot workplace
ϳԹ team part of a multi-university, international study of how machines and mankind will collaborate more in ‘smart factories’ of the future ϳԹ engineers are working with partners at two other universities and an Italian-owned company in Michigan to st...
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Understanding the neurological code behind how flies fly
ϳԹ scientists study acrobatic maneuvers of common flesh flies, offer first proofs of 70-year-old theory on nervous system controlling body rotations A common flesh fly takes off and maneuvers effortlessly, her head and body steadied by a hidden, minuscule gyroscope-like structure t...
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Student group ϳԹbotix places twice at National Robotics Challenge
ϳԹbotix, the student robotics club, sent three teams—a six-pound combat, mini-sumo and autonomous vehicle—to the National Robotics Challenge, held from April 12 to 14. The combat team's robot, Playbot, won first in its division, marking the second year in a row the team has done so. Additionally,...
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Depth and breadth of university exploration on display at Research ShowCASE
Students, faculty and staff present their projects in daylong symposium The enormity of research undertaken at ϳԹ, from biologically inspired robotics to augmented reality demonstrations, will cover the vast main floor of the Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic Ce...
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Mapping out a biorobotic future  
ϳԹ “sea slug” robotics expert leads effort to organize emerging fields You might not think a research area as detailed, technically advanced and futuristic as building robots with living materials would need help getting organized, but that’s precisely what Vickie Webster-Wood and...