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¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ team takes home $500,000 in international underground robotics competition

July 12, 2023

A ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ team has taken home third place and $500,000 in prize money in an international competition that sends teams of robots deep underground to conduct search-and-rescue operations. The ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ group, made up of engineers from across the university, took part in the final event of the Defense...

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Not-so-private eyes: Eye movements hold clues to how we make decisions

July 12, 2023

New research led by scientists at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ suggests that eyes may really be the window to the soul—or, at least, how humans dart their eyes may reveal valuable information about how they make decisions. The new findings offer researchers a rare opportunity in neuroscience: the chance to observe the...

Marco Nicotra

New NASA grant to support quantum sensors in space

July 12, 2023

A multi-university research team, including engineers and physicists from ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ, will build technology and tools to improve measurement of important climate factors by observing atoms in outer space. The new Quantum Pathways Institute is led by the University of Texas at Austin, and scientists from the University of California,...

Xudong Chen

New framework will enable better control of large networked systems

July 12, 2023

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are ubiquitous in nature and science, from flocks of birds and neurons in the brain, to social networks and quantum spin systems. That makes the question of how to control these natural or manmade systems a popular problem for engineers. Assistant Professor Xudong Chen wants to develop...

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Robotics professors win award for modern textbook

July 12, 2023

Professors Nikolaus Correll, Bradley Hayes, Christoffer Heckman and Alessandro Roncone have received a recognition award from the College of Engineering and Applied Science for their work, Introduction to Autonomous Robots: Mechanisms, Sensors, Actuators, and Algorithms , an open textbook focusing on computational principles of autonomous robots. The award was created...

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¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ lands $5.5 million Air Force project to advance orbital and AI research

July 12, 2023

A team of ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ researchers is embarking on a major research project that will advance our understanding of orbital mechanics and monitoring, artificial intelligence, and hypersonics. Led by Marcus Holzinger, an associate professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, the group has...

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Researchers at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ advancing more trustworthy autonomous systems with U.S Air Force

May 3, 2023

Allie Anderson and Torin Clark at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ are conducting research into how humans and artificial intelligence systems work together. The pair are part of a multi-university research team commissioned by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study trust in autonomous systems. It is an important and complex...

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