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Student robotics competition on March 13 features Star Trek theme
Robotic “starships” built by UCSC engineering students will face off in a free public demonstration on Wednesday, March 13.
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Medical robotics expert Jacob Rosen named Health Care Hero
The Silicon Valley Business Journal honored robotics expert Jacob Rosen with a 2012 Health Care Heroes award.
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‘Open-source’ robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs
Robotics experts at UCSC and UW have built seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories.
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UCSC creates new major in robotics engineering
A new major in robotics engineering at UC Santa Cruz is the first of its kind in the UC system.
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Medical robotics expert explores the human-machine interface
Jacob Rosen is developing a wearable robotic “exoskeleton” that could enable a person to lift heavy objects with little effort.
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Engineering Hope: UCSC bioelectronics engineer designs prostheses that promise to change lives
Wentai Liu is an electronics wizard whose work is enabling the development of devices once found only in the realm of science fiction–miniaturized electronic implants to restore vision, movement, and other biological functions lost to disease or injury.
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UC Santa Cruz engineering students win national robotics competition
A team of four students from UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering won the first-place trophy in a national student robotics competition for their design of a solar-powered robot that can climb up a vertical ribbon carrying a payload.
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UCSC engineers develop assistive technologies for the blind
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing new assistive technologies for the blind based on advances in computer vision that have emerged from research in robotics. A “virtual white cane” is one of several prototype tools for the visually impaired developed by Roberto Manduchi, an assistant professor of computer engineering, and his…
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UC Santa Cruz partners with USC and Caltech in national center to develop implantable electronics for reversing major disabilities
Implantable microelectronic devices for overcoming blindness, paralysis, and stroke damage are the focus of a new center in which engineers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, are collaborating with scientists at the University of Southern California and the California Insitute of Technology. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing $17 million over five years…