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Transportation & Robotics

May 3, 2019

A safe landing on Mars depends in part on an effective parachute

Transportation & Robotics

Shelley, Stanford’s autonomous Audi TTS, performs at Thunderhill Raceway Park. | Photo credit: Kurt Hickman

Apr 2, 2019

An autonomous car goes to driver’s ed

Transportation & Robotics

Gender equality in science isn’t only about fairness; it’s about producing better outcomes. | iStock/solarseven and Drea Sullivan

Mar 12, 2019

Londa Schiebinger: Why does gender matter?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

The OceanOne robot that can dive and recover objects at depths where humans can’t operate. | Image courtesy of Frederic Osada and Teddy Seguin/DRASSM

Mar 5, 2019

Oussama Khatib: My group has always been inspired by the human example

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

At the STAN (Society, Technology, Art and Nature) event in 2011, Ng spoke about his work with autonomous helicopters. | Photo credit: L.A. Cicero

Mar 5, 2019

Andrew Ng: Deep learning has created a sea change in robotics

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Okamura, left, celebrates a successful project with students. | Photo credit: L.A. Cicero

Mar 4, 2019

Allison Okamura: I wasn’t one of those kids that always loved robots

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Transportation & Robotics

Lentink holds an example of the models his students are making to simulate birds in flight. | Photo credit: L.A. Cicero

Mar 4, 2019

David Lentink: We want to fly anywhere, regardless of turbulence

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Salomon Trujillo, John Ulmen, Alan Asbeck, and Cutkosky observe the Stickybot III in a trial run on a glass surface. | Photo credit: L.A. Cicero

Mar 4, 2019

Mark Cutkosky: The work in my lab centers around bio-inspired robots

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

The underlying principles behind flight at extreme speeds could help propel people across the globe or to distant planets. | iStock/sweetandsour

Feb 27, 2019

It’s a bird...It’s a plane...It’s hypersonic flight

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Could paraffin wax, the stuff candles are made of, fuel future NASA missions? | Adobe Stock/Tim Bird

Feb 26, 2019

A rocket fuel made of … wax?

Transportation & Robotics

But first, researchers must train algorithms to recognize images of orbiting satellites. | Pixabay

Feb 14, 2019

Artificial intelligence may one day guide ‘tow trucks’ in space

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics

The ruins of Chavín de Huántar preserve remnants of a civilization that flourished from 1300 to 500 B.C. | Photo courtesy of John Rick

Dec 5, 2018

Robots help archaeologists to explore pre-Incan ruins in Peru

Transportation & Robotics

An artist’s illustration shows the InSight lander on Mars. | Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Nov 28, 2018

Q&A: The InSight and MarCO satellites land on Mars

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

The technology makes it possible for robots to touch a delicate berry or handle a pingpong ball without squashing them. | Image credit: Bao Lab

Nov 21, 2018

An electronic glove gives robots a sense of touch

Transportation & Robotics

The tiny robots could potentially move pieces of debris or position a camera to evaluate a treacherous area. | Image credit: Kurt Hickman

Oct 25, 2018

Heavy objects and closed doors are no match for these flying robots

Transportation & Robotics

Small changes in commute routines could reduce the negative effects of congestion. | Reuters/Eric Thayer

Oct 4, 2018

Balaji Prabhakar: Can digital incentives help alleviate traffic?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Hovering requires an animal to generate enough lift to consistently support their own body weight. | Video courtesy of the Lentink Lab

Oct 1, 2018

What can hovering animals teach us about flying robots?

Transportation & Robotics

Euglena swim in polygons to avoid light which may help scientists understand biological systems in a mathematical way. | Video by Riedel-Kruse Lab

Oct 1, 2018

Tiny pond dwellers could help scientists design swimming robots

Environment, Health, Transportation & Robotics

JackRabbot 2 has an arm and expressive eyes, which can help communicate the robot’s next move to people around it. | Photo credit: Amanda Law

Sep 19, 2018

JackRabbot 2: The polite pedestrian robot

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics

The latest big news from Mars is the discovery of a possible underground lake. | Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/TAMU

Aug 21, 2018

Is there life on Mars?

Transportation & Robotics

In real-world experiments, the system successfully identified airplanes, automobiles, cats and dogs. | Getty Images/Andrey Suslov

Aug 17, 2018

A new AI camera recognizes objects faster and more efficiently

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

A starling roost in the United Kingdom. | Unsplash/James Wainscoat

Jun 11, 2018

Could studying how animals move cohesively in a group teach us how to help drones fly safely?

Computation & Data, Transportation & Robotics

The development has the potential to mimic how skin can stretch, repair itself and transmit sensations to the brain. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

May 31, 2018

An artificial nerve system aims to give prosthetics a sense of touch

Health, Transportation & Robotics

People identify teardrop-shaped cars, such as the Toyota Prius, as being more eco-friendly. | Reuters/Toru Hanai

May 18, 2018

Design cues trigger consumer opinions about environmental friendliness

Environment, Transportation & Robotics