Category: Robotics
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IOE Ph.D. Candidate Brandon Pitts featured in Rackham Student Spotlight
IOE Ph.D. candidate Brandon Pitts is featured in a Rackham Graduate School Student Spotlight. “I found what I love and I’m running with that. When you find something you love, it will chase you; you don’t have to chase it. Opportunities come to people who put themselves in the position to receive them.” Brandon has
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Michigan Robotics Day 2016 is READY TO GO!
Please join us on Tuesday April 5, 2016 at the North Campus Research Complex in Ann Arbor for an event co-hosted by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) and the University of Michigan.This free event is open to all ages. Come experience the cutting-edge advances made by Michigan robotics’ companies and research organizations, hear from leading minds in
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Neurophysiological evidence for human empathy toward robots in perceived pain
Researchers have presented the first neurophysiological evidence of humans’ ability to empathize with a robot in perceived pain. Event-related brain potentials in human observers, reflecting empathy with humanoid robots in perceived pain, were similar to those for other humans in pain, except at the beginning of the top-down process of empathy. This difference may be
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Nanotech: the new alchemy
Alchemy left the mainstream centuries ago, but one of its core concepts, transmuting the elements, is experiencing a revival in nanotechnology. Researchers at the University of Michigan are charting a path toward materials with new properties by cleverly altering the nanoparticles used to build them. “Today, scientists achieve something akin to alchemy when we change
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Paris Climate Summit 2015 Resources
More than 200 world leaders gathered at the United Nations 2015 Climate Change Conference to negotiate a binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Two Michigan Engineering students attended. They were among tens of thousands of observers helping to ensure that the meeting was transparent. The summit took place Nov. 30-Dec. 11, 2015.
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Research news – Heat radiates 10,000 times faster at the nanoscale
When heat travels between two objects that aren’t touching, it flows differently at the smallest scales – distances on the order of the diameter of DNA, or 1/50,000 of a human hair. While researchers have been aware of this for decades, they haven’t understood the process. Heat flow often needs to be prevented or harnessed