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National Science Foundation: Mind Reading Computer System May Help People With Locked-in Syndrome
National Science Foundation: Science Nation - http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/index.jsp
BU Sargent College Professor Frank Guenther demonstrates how people with locked-in syndrome can communicate again.
Click on the link [...]above to read the article that accompanies the video and learn more about Frank Guenther's work.
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How Math and Engineering Changed This Student’s Life: A Personal Story
When most people think of robots, what comes to mind is probably something with a hard shell, likely made of metal or plastic—and maybe shaped like a human. But when Boston University mechanical engineering major Sarah Alizadeh-Shabdiz thinks of [...]robots, she pictures a bendy, wiggly piece of rubber. Purple rubber. That’s because Alizadeh-Shabdiz (ENG’26) spent her summer doing research in BU’s Soft Robotics Control Lab.
Soft robots are just that: robots—or parts of robots—made from bendable, pliable materials, such as silicone rubber. Designers of soft robots often take inspiration from nature, looking at animals with naturally flexible limbs, like octopuses. The potential applications of their work are wide-ranging, from assisting with surgeries to engaging in search and rescue missions in difficult-to-squeeze-into places. In the Soft Robotics Control Lab, principal investigator Andrew Sabelhaus, a College of Engineering assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and his students are studying novel ways to improve how soft robots are controlled, as well as the fundamental physics underlying how they interact with the environment.
“Soft robots are understood in the scientific community to be inherently safer,” says Alizadeh-Shabdiz. This makes sense, intuitively: a robot arm made of soft rubber seems less likely to crush something than one made of hard plastic or metal. But it turns out that very little research has been done on exactly how much safer soft robots might be. Among Alizadeh-Shabdiz’s summer research projects was an experiment, funded by a grant from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, designed to measure the force one of the lab’s soft robot limbs can exert on an object.
In the video above, find out why Alizadeh-Shabdiz needed the help of Toys“R”Us to complete her study and how her love of mathematics inspires her research—and her goal of becoming a teacher.
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This Robot's Soft Gripper Was Inspired By Japanese Kirigami
Boston University mechanical engineers have developed a unique way to use an ancient Japanese art form for a very 21st-century purpose. Douglas Holmes, BU College of Engineering associate professor of mechanical engineering, studies how materials [...]change shape when they are bent or warped by external forces. In a paper published this week in Science Robotics, Holmes and BU PhD student Yi Yang demonstrate how they were inspired by kirigami, the traditional Japanese art of paper cutting (cousin of origami paper-folding art), to design soft robotic grippers.
By cutting sheets of plastic in specific shapes, and then bending them in a specific way, the plastic morphs into a gripper that can safely and securely pick up objects of various size, weight, shape, and fragility. Using the kirigami technique, they’ve developed grippers so small they can pick up a single grain of sand, and large enough to pick up a bottle of water. Holmes and Yang hope that this research will make a significant contribution to the emerging field of soft robotics.
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Meet Dart, BU's "Stranger Things"-Inspired Soft Robot
From the slithering of snakes to the crawling of octopuses, the field of soft robotics has often taken cues from the natural world. But what about the supernatural? Boston University’s Morphable Biorobotics Lab is doing just that with [...]“Dart,†a new soft robot whose nickname was inspired by its resemblance to creatures from the popular Netflix series “Stranger Things.â€
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These Robots Are Learning to Cook Hot Dogs, Autonomously
Watch two robots in Boston University's Robotics Lab learn how to make and serve hot dogs.
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Two Robots Make a Hot Dog
In Boston University's Robotics Lab, two robots have learned to work together to perform one of the great feats of human innovation: grilling and serving a hot dog.
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Intro to Robotics
A short look into Intro to Robotics, taught in the spring of 2019.
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BU Club Explores AR and VR Technology
Do you know the difference between augmented reality and virtual reality? Are you interested in discovering how to build things using AR and VR technology, or finding out how they can advance entertainment, education, and industry? That's what [...]BU’s AR/VR club is all about. Open to all majors and to students at all levels of expertise, members experiment and play with virtual reality systems and VR software, augmented reality devices and AR apps. The club also hosts workshops on using AR and VR development software like ARKit.
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