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Transportation & Robotics

Dec 8, 2016

How do we keep GPS safe from sabotage?

Security, Transportation & Robotics

Obi the parrotlet wearing protective goggles. | Eric Gutierrez

Dec 6, 2016

How can we develop better flying robots?

Transportation & Robotics

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

Technology to make air traffic control safer. | iStock/Palladadesign

Nov 14, 2016

Can neural networks help make air traffic control safer?

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Walter Vincenti explains the benefits of wing sweep in front of the test section of a supersonic wind tunnel. | Image credit: NASA

Oct 11, 2016

How a career in aeronautics got liftoff almost 90 years ago

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Swarms of satellites could offer better and more cost effective ways to explore space. | Illustration by Tricia Seibold

Oct 4, 2016

How swarms of small satellites could revolutionize space exploration

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

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

Ready for launch | Photo by Vignesh Ramachandran

Aug 3, 2016

Students show that low-cost balloons can do real high-altitude studies

Transportation & Robotics

Groups of animals have this whole-is-greater-than-the-parts effect. | REUTERS/Peter Andrews

Jun 1, 2016

The movements of fish and birds inspire wind power generation improvement

Transportation & Robotics

Jackrabbot, on the move at Stanford | Photo by Vignesh Ramachandran

Jun 1, 2016

Meet Jackrabbot: the social robot

Transportation & Robotics

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

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

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

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

Drones | Chesky / Shutterstock

Dec 11, 2015

Stanford team develops software to predict and prevent drone collisions

Security, Transportation & Robotics

Nov 3, 2015

Stanford engineers help discover the surprising trick jellyfish use to swim

Energy, Transportation & Robotics

Aug 28, 2015

Stanford engineers find secret to steady drone cameras in swan necks

Transportation & Robotics

Jul 15, 2015

New fuel-cell materials could pave the way for practical hydrogen-powered cars

Energy, Transportation & Robotics

High-speed video reveals how lovebirds keep a clear line of sight during acrobatic flight. Stanford’s David Lentink says this strategy could be applied to drone cameras to improve visual systems.

Jul 6, 2015

Stanford high-speed video reveals how lovebirds keep a clear line of sight during acrobatic flight

Transportation & Robotics

Stanford engineering students have been testing an obstacle-avoidance algorithm for autonomous vehicles, using a pop-up obstacle they rigged up from a tablecloth and a leaf blower.

Jul 1, 2015

Stanford engineering students teach autonomous cars to avoid obstacles

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics

A material inspired by the unique physics of gecko fingertips could allow robotic hands to grip nearly any type of object without applying excessive pressure.

May 27, 2015

Grippy, not sticky: Stanford engineers debut an incredibly adhesive material

Materials, Transportation & Robotics

A team led by Assistant Professor David Lentink has studied hummingbird flight to determine the sweet spot in wing dimensions that allows for hovering.

Mar 23, 2015

Stanford engineer helps crack mystery of bird flight

Transportation & Robotics

Mar 19, 2015

Stanford engineering students build basketball-shooting robots

Transportation & Robotics

Jan 15, 2015

Stanford engineers develop a device for measuring how birds take flight

Transportation & Robotics