Posts Categorized: Advanced Manufacturing

The bionic man: coming soon?

Originally published in the Spring 2015 issue of Edge Magazine. In 1999, NASA issued a challenge to the scientific community: to develop a robotic arm with artificial muscles that could beat a human in an arm-wrestling match. At a conference six years later,…

New Metamaterial Lens Allows for Lighter, Thinner Solar Panels

Researchers in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have designed a new way to focus light over extremely short distances, technology with big applications in photovoltaics and optical imaging. Picture a typical lens, shaped like half…
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