Mechanical Engineering

A close-up of the robotic gripper, designed to grab objects in zero gravity using a gecko-inspired adhesive. | Image credit: Kurt Hickman

Jun 28, 2017

How a gecko-inspired robotic gripper can help clean up space debris

Transportation & Robotics Issue #26

Lamborghini CEO Stefano Domenicali, right, speaks with Stanford professor of mechanical engineering Chris Gerdes | Photo by Steve Castillo

May 30, 2017

Exploring the future of the motoring enthusiast

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #23

How do we responsibly prepare for artificial intelligence and smart machines? | Illustration by Farrah Yoo

May 15, 2017

Fei-Fei Li and Chris Gerdes: The future of artificial intelligence and self-driving cars

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Transportation & Robotics Issue #22

Understanding bird flight could help create more efficient drones and the development of other applications. | Photo courtesy of the Lentink Lab

Apr 17, 2017

How do birds fly so well in complex, turbulent environments?

Transportation & Robotics Issue #21

An artist's conception of the view of the sun from under the clouds of Venus | Photo courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

Mar 28, 2017

These devices take on some of the toughest conditions in the universe

Materials, Technology & Society Issue #20

Using new turbines and arranging them in different ways, researchers hope to generate wind power more efficiently. | Image by Dabiri Lab, Stanford

Jan 13, 2017

How can we extract the most energy from the wind?

Energy Issue #15

Obi the parrotlet wearing protective goggles. | Eric Gutierrez

Dec 6, 2016

How can we develop better flying robots?

Transportation & Robotics Issue #13

The X1 experimental autonomous vehicle, made by Stanford. | Stephen Russell

Dec 6, 2016

Taking over the wheel in an autonomous car may not be so easy

Transportation & Robotics Issue #13

Food stimulates cells of the fly intestine to divide, allowing the intestine to grow in response to diet. | Image credit: Lucy O'Brien

Oct 28, 2016

The small intestine changes size depending on food intake — but how?

Health Issue #10

Researchers find order in the seemingly random process of how droplets move through narrow spaces. | Image credit: Ella Maru

Oct 11, 2016

A team finds order in a process once thought to be random

Computation & Data Issue #7

A new technology could one day help surgeons better plan operations to relieve brain swelling. | Image courtesy of the Kuhl Lab

Sep 27, 2016

A new simulation tool helps show how the brain reacts to trauma

Health Issue #8

How will autonomous cars learn to safely navigate the road? | Kurt Hickman

Aug 18, 2016

Teaching autonomous cars how to make safe driving decisions

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #9

A jet engine of an Airbus A350 XWB | REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

Jun 2, 2016

How modeling air turbulence can improve wind farm performance

Energy Issue #7

The cracked walls of a Buddhist shrine in Nepal, November 2015. | REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

May 5, 2016

How do you recover after a deadly earthquake?

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Stanford researchers are studying the way collagen moves between stiff and elastic states in the human body. | Image by Sebastian Kaulitzki/Shutterstock

May 4, 2016

Studying a 'Silly Putty' protein could spur efforts to repair damaged human tissues

Health, Materials

OceanOne, a new humanoid robotic diver from Stanford, explores La Lune, a 17th century shipwreck off the southern coast of France. | Image courtesy Frederic Osada and Teddy Seguin/DRAS

Apr 27, 2016

Humanoid robotic diver recovers treasures from King Louis XIV’s ship

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #7

Ferrari, a lovebird, with Stanford's David Lentink, who is using a wind tunnel to probe the mysteries of birds in flight. | Photo by L.A. Cicero

Apr 22, 2016

A one-of-a-kind wind tunnel for birds paves the way for better drones

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #8

Shelley, Stanford's autonomous Audi TTS, on the track at Thunderhill Raceway north of Sacramento, Calif. | Stanford News Service/Steve Fyffe

Mar 2, 2016

On the road to a safer driving experience

Transportation & Robotics

Professor Sean Follmer, right, uses a new 3D display in a networked collaboration. | Photo courtesy of TMG MIT Media Lab

Feb 11, 2016

What if we could shape ideas the way a sculptor molds clay?

Technology & Society

Hedgehog: a cubic rover that may one day explore some of the most extreme environments in our Solar System (depicted here on Mars’ moon, Phobos.) | Ben Hockman

Feb 3, 2016

Hedgehog, a guide to asteroids and things that whirl around the solar system

Transportation & Robotics Issue #1

A long-exposure photographic image capturing the Stanford Plasma Gun during a single firing. The image shows where the plasma is brightest during the acceleration process, which occurs over tens of m

Dec 1, 2015

Plasma experiments bring astrophysics down to Earth

Energy, Materials

Nov 24, 2015

Atom-sized craters make a catalyst much more active

Energy

Sep 30, 2015

Tension helps heart cells develop normally in the lab, according to Stanford

Health

Aug 28, 2015

Stanford engineers find secret to steady drone cameras in swan necks

Transportation & Robotics