Author: Gabe Cherry
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“Robot assistants” project aims to reinvent construction industry
$2M project aims to partner humans with robots for safer jobsites.
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Will power cords go the way of land lines?
Room-size charging system powers lights, phones, laptops without wires
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Solving the plastic shortage
New catalyst could stabilize supplies of one of the world’s most important plastics.
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New NAME chair aims to spark growth, convey the breadth of the discipline to new students
“NAME grads are responsible for building offshore structures, doing undersea pipelines, cabling, harbors. There’s just a huge breadth of influence.”
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‘Doomsday Glacier’ may be more stable than initially feared
Study sheds light on the future of the massive Thwaites Glacier.
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Tracking ocean microplastics from space
Satellites give new insights on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plus sources and flows of ocean microplastic.
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Less nosy smart speakers
Technology could capture household information without recording speech.
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Harnessing the hum
The property that makes fluorescent lights buzz could power a new generation of computing devices.
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Election lessons from Michigan
Election security expert J. Alex Halderman dissects Antrim County’s election debacle to help future contests go more smoothly.
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U-M Battery Lab to join Michigan Materials Research Institute
The move will help drive production-level research into next-gen solid-state battery technologies.
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U-Michigan professor appointed to FDA medical device security post
A Q&A with Kevin Fu, who will help protect software that saves lives at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
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DARPA pitted 500+ hackers against this computer chip. The chip won.
University of Michigan’s MORPHEUS technology emerges unscathed from bug bounty effort.