Planning to launch mid-2018, an exciting team of Michigan students is designing a space-based time capsule.

Planning to launch mid-2018, an exciting team of Michigan students is designing a space-based time capsule.
Keenan Rebara hopes to add to the fun of spinning the Cube using his a bit of physics and sensors.
Scar tissue left over from heart attacks creates dead zones that don’t beat. Bioengineered patches could fix that.
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A nanoparticle-assisted optical imaging technique could one day read the chemical makeup of a tumor.
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A space weather tool Michigan Engineers developed was used to produce animations that show predictions of how the recent storm would distort Earth’s magnetic field.
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Prof. Jessy Grizzle has long said that his work in robotics could one day be used to help the disabled. Now he and his group, alongside French company Wandercraft, are working to make that claim a reality in the form of walking exoskeletons.
Michigan Engineering professors offer insights into the storm and discuss the ways in which they’re tracking it.
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How a hopping mouse and information theory could inform robotic locomotion
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Built to handle falls, and with two extra motors in each leg, the new robot will help U-M roboticists take independent robotic walking to a whole new level.
Verdict can make databases deliver answers more than 200 times faster while maintaining 99 percent accuracy.
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