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Aspiring mechanical engineers at UT Austin creating robots for the present and future

AUSTIN — Robots are meant to make our jobs easier, but there are many questions about how we are supposed to interact with robots and how they will interact with us. Thanks to the work from some ...
NPR

At a desert festival for space robots, engineers envision a busy future in space

At the Robopalooza festival in the California desert, engineers are stress-testing space robots, which they say could someday build the infrastructure needed to settle the moon and beyond. People love ...
Purdue University

Engineers create mathematical method to design better robots, structures

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Mechanical and civil engineers have created a new mathematical method to design better structures, machines and versatile computer-controlled robots called "robot manipulators." ...
The Digital Universe

Origami-inspired space tech: BYU mechanical engineers create deployable systems for NASA and U.S. Air Force

BYU's origami-inspired antenna self-deploys for space applications. Produced by BYU Video. It's hard to imagine modern life without cell phones, GPS navigation, wide-spread internet, weather ...
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Improving the novel RoboBall: From sea to space, this robot is on a roll

While working at NASA in 2003, Dr. Robert Ambrose, director of the Robotics and Automation Design Lab (RAD Lab), designed a robot with no fixed top or bottom. A perfect sphere, the RoboBall could not ...