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  1. The beanbag test

    It’s one thing for a robot to sort through a pile of rigid objects like blocks, but what about softer stuff?

    The post The beanbag test appeared first on Michigan Engineering News.

  2. Bringing smart banking to market

    Jason Mars, CEO of Ann Arbor startup Clinc, was named #2 in Bank Innovations’s “10 Most innovative CEOs in Banking 2017” list. Clinc is leading the pack for development of intelligent banking assistant software.

  3. Nanoparticles can limit inflammation by distracting the immune system

    White blood cells get busy taking out the trash – it could be a lifesaver when the immune system goes haywire.

  4. New funding for high-fidelity nerve mapping research

    SPARC awarded $1M to a U-M project developing better nerve mapping.

  5. Fighting cancer with cancer: 3D cultured cells could drive precision therapy

    U-M researchers have devised a process that can grow hundreds of cultured cancer cell masses, called spheroids, from just a few tumor cells derived from a patient.

  6. $1.6M toward artificial intelligence for data science

    DARPA is trying to build a system that can turn large data sets into models that can make predictions, and U-M is in on the project.

  7. Out of the Cold War’s shadow

    “My God, what have we done?” The new technology of nuclear nonproliferation

  8. Closest look yet at killer T-cell activity could yield new approach to tackling antibiotic resistance

    An in-depth look at the work of T-cells, the body’s bacteria killers, could provide a roadmap to effective drug treatments.

  9. Evigia founder Navid Yazdi creates essential sensor networks

    Alumnus Navid Yazdi develops sensors that accomplish incredible tasks.

  10. 2017 Peachman lecture: Future ship, offshore and nautical research

    Since 2011, Dr. Bas Buchner has been the president of MARIN (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands), the largest independent maritime research institute in the world.