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New grant to expand open source control software for an intuitive robotic prosthetic leg
  1. New grant to expand open source control software for an intuitive robotic prosthetic leg

    University of Michigan researchers have been awarded an NSF grant to design an open source framework for robotic prosthetic legs that function more naturally and offer a wider range of capabilities.

  2. Space motor helps make robotic prosthetic leg more comfortable and extends battery life

    Getting rid of some gears enabled a free-swinging knee, regenerative braking and brought the noise level down from vacuum cleaner to fridge.

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  3. The Wolverines Behind the Next Generation of Autonomous Vehicles

    The Center for Entrepreneurship profiles a team of EECS students, who are working to develop the next generation of delivery vehicles.

  4. Live public street cams are tracking social distancing

    Virtually visit (what should be) desolate intersections around the world during COVID-19.

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  5. A World Record for Robotic Deep Freeze Walking

    Cassie Blue, the bipedal robot, takes advantage of the 2019 polar vortex to set a record-breaking walk.

  6. AI-powered Whatsapp Bot fights fake news in India

    CE undergrad Amulya Parmar designed a machine learning algorithm to curb fake news as part of the Tavtech Fellowship program.

  7. U-M researchers provide control software to ensure autonomous vehicles stay in their lane

    The team was awarded a Best New Application Paper Award by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for their work developing reliable control systems for Lane Keeping and Adaptive Cruise Control.

  8. First programmable memristor computer aims to bring AI processing down from the cloud

    Circuit elements that store information in their electrical resistances enable a brain-like form of computing, storing and processing information in the same place.

    The post First programmable memristor computer aims to bring AI processing down from the cloud appeared first on Michigan Engineering News.

  9. Six teams of ECE researchers make the finals at AP-S/URSI 2019

    Second Prize overall went to doctoral student Xiuzhang Cai for his radar target classification research applicable to autonomous vehicles.

  10. Computer vision: Finding the best teaching frame in a video for fake video fightback

    The frame in which a human marks out the boundaries of an object makes a huge difference in how well AI software can identify that object through the rest of the video.

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