A University of Texas at Dallas professor applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to dynamically respond to the wearer’s environment and help amputees walk. In research av... Read more
The 3-D world of the popular “Minecraft” video game just became more entertaining, perilous and educational, thanks to a comprehensive code modification kit, “Polycraft World,” created by UT... Read more
Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas have created technology that could be the first step toward wearable computers with self-contained power sources or, more immediately, a sm... Read more
REVT members demonstrated electric motors or generators that eliminate rare earth metals. This approach produces significantly greater power and torque at a given size and weight than tradi... Read more
Electronic devices that become soft when implanted inside the body and can deploy to grip 3-D objects, such as large tissues, nerves and blood vessels Researchers from The University of Texa... Read more
Could be applied to solar cells, ultracapacitors for energy storage, or advanced transistors for energy efficient electronics, among many other applications Researchers at Penn State’s Cente... Read more
An international team led by The University of Texas at Dallas has discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to powerful artificial muscles. The new mu... Read more
UT Dallas researchers are extending the borders of virtual reality, going beyond virtual spaces in which people can see and hear each other to an environment that adds the sense of touch. Th... Read more
Enabling the artificial muscles to lift more than 100,000 times their own weight and generate 85 times more mechanical power during contraction than mammalian skeletal muscles of comparable... Read more
Discovery May Yield Cheaper, More Efficient Alternative to Platinum in Automotive Engines Engineers at a company co-founded by a University of Texas at Dallas professor have identified a mat... Read more
The applications of bioinspired robots are as diverse as the animals on which they are based. The translucent bell-shaped figure pumps rhythmically upward through the water, the rise and fal... Read more
Cool graphene breakthrough could keep laptops from overheating In the latest research that portends big things for this super-thin material, researchers from the University of Califor... Read more
This is an exciting advancement in the field of acoustics It is known that intense sound can be produced by electrically-powered nanotubes stretched into sheets, but researchers from Univers... Read more
