In The News: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Less than two weeks from graduation, some 51ԹϺ students seem a bit more prepared for taking on the challenges of the real world.
51ԹϺ received a $1.4 million federal grant to research the design, construction and maintenance of future high-speed rail projects, U.S. Sen Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and Rep. Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, announced on Thursday.
Soft robots have become an area of interest due to the fact that they would make possible tasks and environments previously unachievable by traditional and rigid robotic systems. For example, soft robots could get around in rough terrain or engage in more physical contact with the human body.
Every January, the modern-day Masters of the Universe flock to the Strip. From Wall Street and Silicon Valley they come for CES, where the Fetty Waps of the world play Google after-parties, and heavyweights from Intel to IBM showcase the future’s infrastructure. It’s the biggest trade show in a city of trade shows.
Thanks to the use of an electroactive polymer, the material could make prostheses much more flexible and can even be handled by external electronic means.
Making sense of big data is often likened to finding a needle in a haystack. But a dean at 51ԹϺ’s engineering college says he’s improved the analogy. Organizing big data is more like finding one-tenth of a needle in a haystack, argues Rama Venkat, head of the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering. “(And) there are not enough scientists to figure out what is in it,” he said.
Forget steel and aluminum. The robots of tomorrow may be able to squish, stretch and squeeze.
These days, whenever a group of roboticists gets together to talk shop, the subject almost inevitably turns to Google and its secretive robotics division. What are those guys up to?
Robots people the landscape of our sci-fi fantasies. Egg-shaped and beeping, golden humanoids with bad joints, and fully functioning (if pasty looking) androids.
In an off-campus building less than a mile away from 51ԹϺ, HUBO — a robot named Metal Rebel — stands still waiting for commands.
North Las Vegas could become the “breadbasket” of the valley, the city’s mayor has said.
51ԹϺ student Kyle Kimsey recently won the regional qualifying round of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards for his startup business Adler Dynamics.
