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Exoskeletons with personalize-your-own settings
  1. Exoskeletons with personalize-your-own settings

    Users who could adjust the timing, torque of an ankle exoskeleton typically found comfortable settings in under two minutes.

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  2. U-M, Humotech partner to bring open-source bionic leg to research labs

    The partnership will expand the capabilities of other labs, and enable them to conduct high-impact research.

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  3. U-M founds first robotics department among top 10 engineering schools

    The new department will meet demand from industry and students—and define the emerging discipline

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  4. Mimicking a human fingertip’s sensitivity and sense of direction for robotic applications

    With the help of 1.6 million GaN nanopillars per sensor, the University of Michigan team was able to provide human-level sensitivity with directionality on a compact, easily manufactured system

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  5. Remodeling the construction industry

    Could human-robot collaboration revitalize an outmoded business model and attract new workers?

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  6. $1.7M to build everyday exoskeletons to assist with lifting, walking and climbing stairs

    The modular exoskeleton system will help workers and the elderly, boosting ankle, knee and/or hip joints by mounting new motors to off-the-shelf orthotics.

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  7. $1M for open-source first-responder robots

    An open-source perception and movement system, to be developed with NSF funding, could enable robots that partner with humans in fires and disaster areas.

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  8. “Robot assistants” project aims to reinvent construction industry

    $2M project aims to partner humans with robots for safer jobsites.

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  9. Faster path planning for rubble-roving robots

    Splitting the path into difficult and easy terrain speeds up path planning for robots that use “hands” to maintain balance on uneven ground.

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  10. Helping robots learn what they can and can’t do in new situations

    What should a robot do when it cannot trust the model it was trained on?

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