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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering.

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BMW and MIT Self-Assembly Lab collaborate to design the first printed inflatable material; liquid printed pneumatics

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This commission is on display for the first time during the exhibition The Future Starts Here , which explores the power of design in shaping the world of tomorrow, at V&A museum in London. Interiors could even take on malleable, modular uses. —Martina Starke, head of BMW Brand Vision and BMW Brand Design at BMW Group.

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This Durable Strand of Jelly Can Block Pain

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When researchers Xinyue Liu and Siyuan Rao first began their collaboration at MIT, they treated this question literally. Except for bones and teeth, our muscles and other organs are all actually hydrogels,” said Liu, a materials scientist now at Michigan State University. Our body is also made of hydrogels.

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Video Friday: Liquid Metal Bubble Actuator

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CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA Enjoy today’s videos! MIT CSAIL ] Thanks, Rachel! The latest buzz at the University of Maryland?

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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RSL ] ICRA 2023 is in London! In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. Paper ] MIT CSAIL grad students speak about what they think is the most important unsolved problem in computer science today. [

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Pneumatic Actuators Give Robot Cheetah-Like Acceleration

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Inspired by the high-speed maneuvering of cheetahs, roboticists at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa , have started experimenting with the old-school sibling of hydraulic actuators—pneumatics. University of Cape Town, South Africa With a boom for support, the 7-kilogram Kemba is able to repeatedly jump to 0.5

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Study finds CO2 emissions trading more effective path to automotive CO2 reduction in Europe than tailpipe standards

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Switching from the automotive standards to the trading scheme could save as much as €63 billion, says the study’s lead author Sergey Paltsev, deputy director at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and senior research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative.

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