An illustration of a car traveling down the "charging lane" of a roadway.

Future electric cars could recharge wirelessly while you drive

March 27, 2018

Over the last two years, Assistant Professor Khurram Afridi and his team in electrical, computer and energy engineering have developed a proof of concept for wireless power transfer that transfers electrical energy through electric fields at very high frequencies.

Hooman Hedayati, a researcher and PhD student in the ATLAS IRON Lab, experiments with a drone

Augmented reality enhances robot collaboration

March 15, 2018

Two papers published by the ATLAS Iron Lab, directed by Dan Szafir, for the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction in Chicago open the door to this promising area of research.

David Haussler

National Academy recognizes alum for pioneering genome research

March 15, 2018

David Haussler (PhDCompSci鈥82) is well known for his work with the Human Genome Project 鈥 he and his team posted the first publically available human genome sequence on the Internet in 2000.

Network illustration by Meredith Miotke for Quanta Magazine.

New computer science paper challenges a celebrated network science theory

Feb. 20, 2018

Results "undermine the universality of scale-free networks and reveal that real-world networks exhibit a rich structural diversity that will likely require new ideas and mechanisms to explain,鈥 according to CU 麻豆影院's Anna Broido and Aaron Clauset.

Electronic skin

New malleable 'electronic skin' self-healable, recyclable

Feb. 12, 2018

CU 麻豆影院 researchers have developed a new type of malleable, self-healing and fully recyclable 鈥渆lectronic skin鈥 that has applications ranging from robotics and prosthetic development to better biomedical devices.

Students work on projects in the Idea Forge

Computer science professor leading new Hacking for Defense course

Feb. 6, 2018

Hacking for Defense, which originated at Stanford University, is another project from the National Security Technology Accelerator, otherwise known as MD5. The project pairs up national research universities across the country with Department of Defense-based endeavors.

An aerial shot shows severe devastation in Texas caused by Hurricane Harvey. Credit/U.S. Department of Defense

Building to withstand disasters pays off big, study shows

Feb. 2, 2018

For every dollar the government spends to make existing buildings more resistant to wildfires, earthquakes, floods and hurricanes, $6 is saved in property losses, business interruption and health problems, according to a new study led by Professor Keith Porter of civil, environmental and architectural engineering.

Soft robots

Next-gen flexible robots move and heal like us

Jan. 4, 2018

The Keplinger Research Group in the College of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a new class of soft, electrically activated devices capable of mimicking the expansion and contraction of natural muscles.

A group shot of the Keplinger Research Group members in their lab.

CU Engineering Researchers Create Soft Robotic Muscles

Jan. 4, 2018

Current robotic materials and prosthetic limbs, while quickly gaining precision and application, are typically made of rigid materials and aren鈥檛 the most graceful machines 鈥 think C-3PO from "Star Wars." Researchers in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU 麻豆影院 are working to soften these limbs, and eventually...

Two students work on the CubeSat in a LASP lab.

How a student satellite solved a major space mystery

Dec. 13, 2017

The CubeSat mission houses a small, energetic particle telescope to measure the flux of solar energetic protons and Earth鈥檚 radiation belt electrons. Launched in 2012, it has involved more than 65 CU 麻豆影院 students, including many from Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences.

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