Category: Research
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Michigan startup reimagines clothing labels for recycling and authenticating brands
Tags get cut off and tagless labels wear away, but new photonic fibers could serve as permanent barcodes.
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Games for rehab: Fast communication for interactive VR and AR
U-M-led team to tackle latency for wheelchair-friendly AR/VR soccer matches and large-scale VR word puzzles for players fending off the progression of Parkinson’s.
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Turning health research inside-out: A Q&A with Joerg Lahann
How the Biointerfaces Institute builds in collaboration to fuel breakthroughs.
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Laser links to bolster the next generation of satellite constellations
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research provides $2M to help satellites in orbit distribute critical resources with laser light.
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Capturing cancer cells from blood could help doctors choose the right breast cancer treatment
Some women undergo unnecessary mastectomy and chemotherapy, but a ‘labyrinth in a chip’ could reveal which cancers need aggressive treatments.
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$2.5M aluminum research partnership aims to expand use in auto industry
U-M to collaborate with Hydro, one of the world’s largest aluminum companies.
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A common language to describe and assess human-agent teams
Using a new taxonomy, an analysis of testbeds that simulate human and autonomous agent teams finds a need for more complex testbeds to mimic real-world scenarios.
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Pottery-inspired method stencils nanoparticles for building advanced materials
The technique allows engineers to more precisely place patches on microscopic building blocks, so they can control their assembly into designer structures.
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Hurricane outages: analysis details the where, and who, of increased future power cuts
A new analytical tool from U-M provides guidance for municipal and emergency planning.
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New process layers uniform ScAlN on 3D surfaces
Scandium aluminum nitride can now be integrated into high-voltage, high-frequency or piezoelectric devices with plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition.
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This digital hand enables hands-free virtual reality
More than just a stand-in, the AI-powered agent can complete tasks by following simple voice commands that don’t include nitty-gritty details.
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Between rain and snow, machine learning finds 9 precipitation types
Leveraging 1.5M minutes of precipitation data and a nonlinear method to handle complex relationships between variables, the team created a new classification system