Here’s what it’s like to work at a startup in the most innovative country in...
Alisa Jin, who is studying electrical and computer engineering, helped to build a drone that flies like a kite. Alex Dye, who is studying mechanical engineering, helped to design the prototype of a...
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Understanding climate change is hard work. These robotic mussels are doing...
Summer is officially over. Gone are the days of sun, swimming, and neighborhood clambakes. But even as the weekly forecast takes on a chill, global water and air temperatures continue to rise. And...
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Some robots walk. Others fly. He built one that can do both.
A bipedal robot walks on the surface of a distant planet. Its sensors scan the environment, sending data back to Earth. It comes to a crumbling hillside, flexes its knees and leaps, thrusters...
View ArticleTen things to do on Northeastern’s Boston campus for National Engineers Week
Learn how industrial engineers are fighting human trafficking. Examine robots that fly, drive, and swim. Tour labs in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. These are just a few of the...
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Northeastern University student Conor Messer will use his Fulbright...
Ever since he can remember, Conor Messer has found himself drawn to the peripheries of his comfort zone. Raised in inner-city Denver, it wasn’t unusual for him to cross paths with people who didn’t...
View ArticleWatch Live: Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun discusses Robot-proof:...
Today, nearly every conversation about the future of work and the modern economy is dominated by the specter of robotics and intelligent machines. In his book, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age...
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Northeastern University researcher studies the use of social robots in mental...
At a hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, Jibo asks a group of veterans how they’re doing. They tell Jibo they’re in a lot of pain and Jibo reminds them that stretching helped them the other day....
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A robot inspired by bats to make flying drones safer and more energy-efficient
Their world is flipped upside down. Bats eat, sleep, poop—even make babies—while hanging upside down. It’s how they spend most of their lives. To get to that hanging point, bats pull some of the most...
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Robotic arms, a device that disinfects your iPhone, and other mechanical...
“How much of a doctor’s skill or a surgeon’s skill relies on them being able to feel what’s wrong?” asked Orion Wilmerding, a fifth-year mechanical engineering student. Wilmerding stood in front of a...
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Penguins are starving as Antarctica gets warmer. Drones are counting the losses.
ELEPHANT ISLAND, Antarctica—Yang Liu packs his drone, puts on his hiking boots, and dons a life vest before climbing into the inflatable boat that will take him and a team of researchers to a small...
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How to stop an iceberg in its tracks
To determine how melting icebergs could be affecting the ocean, a kayak-sized robot stopped the massive chunks of ice drifting and spinning in the waters of the North Atlantic—all by itself. Or at...
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What can a rhododendron teach us about robotics?
On a chilly winter day, Moneesh Upmanyu took a walk with his son near their home outside of Boston. They passed a rhododendron bush, its thick green leaves curled up into thin tubes dangling limply...
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Testing medical protective gear is the perfect job for robots–but not without...
Several months into the pandemic, there’s still a high demand for surgical masks, gowns, and other types of personal protective equipment in the United States. That’s partly because of the stress the...
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He’s building the next generation of autonomous robots
If you walk into the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on Northeastern’s Boston campus, and climb the helical staircase to the collaborative areas on the fifth floor, you’ll find...
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He built a COVID-19-busting robot to sanitize your desk
Daniel Simpson has wanted to build robots since he got his first glimpse of comic book superhero Tony Stark’s high-tech workroom in the 2008 Marvel Studios blockbuster “Iron Man.” “You see this crazy...
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Students take a self-driving Lincoln out for a spin
At first glance it looks like any other burgundy four-door sedan on the street. That is, until you get closer and notice the rooftop-mounted cameras and sensors, and the white decals on the hood and...
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She deconstructed robotic toys as a kid. Now she builds them for Hasbro.
At seven years old, Amanda Vasconcelos’s future in engineering was evident—even if she didn’t know it just yet. A curious young Vasconcelos liked to take apart her Baby Alive toy, a doll brand made...
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Are robots out to steal our jobs? No, say Northeastern students, who will be...
A group of robotics engineering students on Northeastern’s Boston campus is headed to Denmark later this month on a mission focused on global collaboration and knowledge-sharing. The Northeastern...
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This robot is going to map uncharted kelp forests in the Arctic
The last thing Mark Patterson hears before his underwater robot embarks on a mission is a recording of his eldest child’s voice: “Glug, glug, glug! I’m going on a dive!” Once the robot’s antenna...
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This robot uses tactile sign language to help deaf-blind people communicate...
Jaimi Lard gets into position. She cups her left hand over the device, spreading her fingers across the top of it, and raises her right hand. When Lard is ready, Samantha Johnson presses a few keys on...
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Can a robot seal air leaks to help this old (and cold) house?
It’s every home renovation crew’s nightmare―crawling on one’s belly to squirt spray foam in the nooks and crannies of a claustrophobia-inducing attic. What if it were possible to have a robot do the...
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Northeastern club went dormant during the pandemic. Now it numbers 470...
How do you reopen a student club after COVID-19? Ask Ethan Holand, president of NURobotics. Little more than a year after he relaunched the organization—dormant during the pandemic—its membership has...
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A Northeastern professor is using aquatic drones to measure how quickly...
It’s a drone, it’s a kayak, it’s a Jetyak. Floating in the frigid waters off Greenland, Hanumant Singh’s aquatic, autonomous vehicle is, by all appearances, a regular, gas-powered kayak waiting for...
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Who has the best self-driving car? Northeastern robotics team captures first...
Successfully navigating roundabouts and obeying stop signs despite having no hands on the wheel, a team of Northeastern University robotics students won a self-driving car competition at the American...
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A robot that crawls and flies like an animal could soon explore space and...
It’s a bird, it’s a bat, it’s a robot! A new advancement in robotics, the multi-modal mobility morphobot, or M4, could bring innovative solutions to everything from space exploration to package...
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