Sentences with phrase «university robotics team»

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Although Uber's self - driving program is only a few years old, Kalanick's typically no - holds - barred approach quickly led to the establishment in 2015 of an autonomous car team consisting largely of robotics experts raided from Pittsburgh's prestigious Carnegie Mellon University.

Our team of engineers hailing from MIT, Stanford, and Harvard University work together to break ground on new and relevant surgical robotics technology.

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after theRobotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after therobotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

In the past decade, DIYers (working either in small teams or collectively, via crowdsourcing) have made major contributions to fields like genetics, robotics, proteomics, autonomous vehicles, even space exploration — fields that were once the sole province of large corporations, universities, and governments.

A team led by Brown University neuroscientist John Donoghue has implanted sensors in the brains of four quadriplegic patients that connect signals from the motor cortex to output devices, thereby enabling paralyzed patients to move computer cursors, control robotic limbs, and operate wheelchairs.

Not long before the team finished for the season, they dispatched a three - foot - long robotic snake equipped with a camera built by a team from Carnegie Mellon University to look inside.

But concerns about the safety of autonomous cars are misplaced in a world where 1.2 million people die every year in road accidents due to human error, says Paul Newman, a robotics engineer at the University of Oxford, whose team is developing autonomous cars.

The PLATO - R robotic observatory with the HEAT telescope was installed in 2012 by a team led by UNSW physicist, Professor Michael Ashley, and Dr Craig Kulesa of the University of Arizona.

«Look at a gazelle — all of its software is in its brain,» says James Kuffner, an associate professor at C.M.U.'s Robotics Institute, one of six teams of robotics researchers (along with the Florida University System's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, M.I.T., Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania) that DARPA asked to improve on the same basic LittleDog quadruped robot platform, built for them by Boston Dynamics.

A team at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has used a brain implant to allow a paralysed woman to control a robotic arm using her thoughts alone.

«The development of smart materials such as moisture - responsive graphene oxide is of great importance to automation and robotics,» said Yong - Lai Zhang of Jilin University, China, and leader of the research team.

«Something very strange appeared to us: a very nice picturesque coverage of very long white filaments, which were very unusual,» says Roberto Danovaro of Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy, whose team made the discovery using robotic subs.

A team from the University of Buffalo has found that tiny crystal lattices called «self - assembling molecular nanosheets» expand after exposed to light, a discovery that could lead to new light - powered actuators, oscillators and other microscopic electronic components used in artificial muscles and other soft robotic systems.

A group of academic researchers, led by cognitive and computer scientists from Brown University, is teaming up with a cross-functional team from global play and entertainment leader Hasbro to design a smart robotic companion capable of assisting older people with simple but sometimes challenging tasks of everyday living.

He is a member of the survey team for the low - cost Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) system that consists of a pair of robotic telescopes designed to find exoplanets around bright stars operated by astronomers at Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University, Lehigh University and the South African Astronomical Observatory.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A student team from Washington State University is in New York this week as one of 30 national finalists in NASA's $ 2.5 million 3D - Printed Habitat Challenge to design an environment for Mars exploration using robotics and 3D printers.

Students will be inspired by real space, STEM and education experts including Sue Horne and Libby Jackson from the UK Space Agency Exploration team, volcanologist Professor Tamsin Mather, Mars weather expert Professor Stephen Lewis, Pamela Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Education at the University of Cambridge and robotics expert Professor Peter McOwan at Queen Mary University of London.

A team of architects and engineers from the University of Stuttgart devised a robotic technology to produce this glass - and - carbon - fiber pavilion inspired by the shells of flying beetles.

Professor Huosheng Hu and his robotics team at the University of Essex are building five fish, which they hope to release into the sea by the end of next year.

MIT Technology Review divulged that a team of robotics researchers from several European universities, RoboHow, are trying to impart knowledge to robots about cooking, among the other necessary things.

In a tournament aptly called «Edge of Robot: Ski Robot Challenge,» eight robotics teams from research universities, institutes, and a private company competed for a $ 10,000 prize to see which robot could ski down the slopes and race to the finish line the fastest while avoiding obstacles.