Issue #27 | Stanford University School of Engineering

Issue #27

The extremely wide field of view comes from a specially designed spherical lens. I Photo courtesy of Donald Dansereau and Gordon Wetzstein

Jul 24, 2017

A new kind of camera could improve robot vision and virtual reality

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

A camera at the tip of a vine-like robot can give rescuers a view of otherwise unreachable places. | Photo by L.A. Cicero

Jul 19, 2017

Some organisms cover distance by growing. Now a robot can, too.

Transportation & Robotics

A new algorithm sifts through data generated by wearable monitors to find irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias. | Image by iStock/Devrimb

Jul 17, 2017

An algorithm diagnoses arrhythmias with cardiologist-level accuracy

Artificial Intelligence, Health

Researchers are developing technologies to help robots adapt to unknown and changing environments. | Orion nebula/Courtesy JPL

Jul 14, 2017

Space robot technology can help autonomous vehicles here at home

Computation & Data, Materials, Transportation & Robotics

A group of engineers create a microfluidic guillotine. | Image credit: L.A. Cicero

Jun 29, 2017

A microscopic guillotine cuts cells in two

Health, Materials