Research News
- William Xie, a first-year PhD student in computer science, is teaching a robot to reason how gently it should grasp previously unknown objects by using large language models (LLMs). DeliGrasp, Xie's project, is an intriguing step beyond
- Kaushik Jayaram's bioinspired robotics are on the cover of the latest issue of the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems.The article, "Design of CLARI: A Miniature Modular Origami Passive Shape-Morphing Robot," discusses the
- Assistant Professor Nicole Xu recently spoke with Nature for a feature about biohybrid robots and their real-world applications.Xu and her collaborators have been working on a jellyfish-inspired robot that can help monitor climate change and
- In August, the California Public Utilities Commission made history when it voted to allow two self-driving car companies, Waymo and Cruise, to commercially operate their 鈥渞obotaxis鈥 around the clock in San Francisco.Within hours, Cruise reported at
- One thousand feet underground, a four-legged creature scavenges through tunnels in pitch darkness. With vision that cuts through the blackness, it explores a spider web of paths, remembering its every step and navigating with precision. The sound of
- Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram鈥檚 Animal Inspired Movement and Robotics Laboratory recently won the IROS Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, rising above around 3,000 other academic papers that were submitted to the IEEE/
- Kaushik Jayaram's bug-inspired robots are being spotlighted by the Boulder Daily Camera.An assistant professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Robotics Program, Jayaram is an expert in
- Aspero Medical, a CU spin-out company co-founded by Professor Mark Rentschler, has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market and sell the Ancora-SB small bowel balloon overtube that incorporates the company鈥檚 patented
- The University of Colorado Boulder is leading a major Air Force project to track objects orbiting near the moon.The Air Force Research Laboratory is awarding a Space University Research Initiative worth up to $5 million over five years to the multi-
- Imagine a person on the ground guiding an airborne drone that harnesses its energy from a laser beam, eliminating the need for carrying a bulky onboard battery.That is the vision of a group of CU Boulder scientists from the Hayward Research Group.