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Transportation & Robotics

Energy-recycling actuator prototype on a table.

Mar 20, 2024

A replacement for traditional motors could enhance next-gen robots

Energy, Transportation & Robotics

Digital representation of battery icons on a circuit.

Feb 7, 2024

Sitting idle boosts the performance of lithium metal batteries for next-generation EVs

Energy, Transportation & Robotics

Associate Professor Marco Pavone and PhD student Stephanie Newdick holding their ReachBot prototype.

Dec 5, 2023

The limitations of being human got you down? There’s a robot for that

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Tidybot being trained to clean an indoor space.

Oct 5, 2023

This robot learns to clean your space just the way you like it

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

With a simplified machine learning technique, AI researchers created a real-world “robodog” able to leap, climb, crawl, and squeeze past physical barriers as never before.

Oct 4, 2023

New dog, old tricks: New AI approach yields ‘athletically intelligent' robotic dog

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

A still image of five robots, each enacting a part of a dance move.

May 1, 2023

AI-powered EDGE dance animator applies generative AI to choreography

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics

Plates of food

Apr 17, 2023

Building a precise assistive-feeding robot that can handle any meal

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Aerial view of a Los Angeles freeway interchange.

Jan 27, 2023

Mac Schwager: How engineers are putting the ‘auto’ in autonomous

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

3D architectural sketch of a jet plane.

Jan 20, 2023

Ilan Kroo: Better ways to build an airplane

Transportation & Robotics

Photo of underwater robot OceanOneK exploring an underwater plane wreck.

Oct 28, 2022

Oussama Khatib: What if Aquaman were a robot?

Transportation & Robotics

A person walking on campus while wearing the exoskeleton boots.

Oct 12, 2022

Untethered exoskeleton walks out into the real world

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Image of an electric car charging in the driveway of a house.

Sep 23, 2022

EV charging needs changing. Here's why.

Energy, Environment, Transportation & Robotics

A robotic diver swims above a sunken plane underwater.

Jul 20, 2022

A robotic diver connects human’s sight and touch to the deep-sea

Transportation & Robotics

Photo of an F/A-18 Super Hornet flying at subsonic speed.

Jul 18, 2022

How to make quieter airplanes

Energy, Transportation & Robotics

Image of a starshade, which can be used to find exoplanets

Jul 18, 2022

An engineer uses an ancient art to solve a very modern problem

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Portrait of Monroe Kennedy

Mar 14, 2022

Why the future needs robots with a human touch

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Illustration of robot and human shaking hands.

Feb 9, 2022

How do you build a better robot? By understanding people.

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics

Image of hand casting multi-colored shadows.

Dec 10, 2021

Researchers create a device that imitates social touch, but from afar

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Image of bird robot on tree branch

Dec 8, 2021

A team of engineers create a perching bird-like robot

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

A rendering of the wing of a commercial airplane

Oct 22, 2021

Improved computer simulation can build faster, cleaner, cheaper planes

Computation & Data, Transportation & Robotics

Close-up of the ankle exoskeleton emulator

Sep 30, 2021

Stanford exoskeleton research demonstrates the importance of training

Health, Transportation & Robotics

Engineers are concerned about everything from the availability of raw materials to how many miles can I go before I run out of juice? | iStock/Jeff_Hu

Jun 30, 2021

Simona Onori: How ready are we for our electric future?

Electronics & Networking, Energy, Transportation & Robotics

A robotic gripper, developed by Stanford engineers, was tested aboard the ISS. | From a video by Kurt Hickman

May 24, 2021

Stanford ‘gecko gripper’ tested on the International Space Station

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Illustrations of ReachBot traversing a Martian cavern across two different types of treacherous terrain | Image courtesy of Marco Pavone

May 12, 2021

A chance to apply sci-fi concepts to real space exploration

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics