Penn Professors Lead Call for Ethical Framework for New 'Mind Control' Technologies Penn Professors Lead Call for Ethical Framework for New 'Mind Control' Technologies As interventions for mental illnesses and neurological disorders are becoming increasingly powerful, an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, American University and Duke University are calling for new safeguards to guide treatments and protect patients.
Teaching Robots to ‘Feel with Their Eyes’ Teaching Robots to ‘Feel with Their Eyes’ An engineering Ph.D. student is leading a project that builds up a database of surfaces so that robots may better identify what objects are made of and how to handle them.
Penn Collaboration Produces Surprising Insights Into the White Spots on Butterfly Wings Penn Collaboration Produces Surprising Insights Into the White Spots on Butterfly Wings A collaboration between biologists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania is yielding new insights into the wings of the “skipper butterfly” in the Costa Rican rainforest. What they learn could lead to technological advancements in systems ranging from power-efficient computer displays to sensors to energy efficient buildings, windows and vehicles.
Exploring new worlds: Penn students design an ice drilling robot for Mars Penn Engineering students Wanda Lipps, Gautam Nagaraj, and Michael Gromis, all members of the Mars Water Horizons team, use a robot they built to drill through a container of soil, clay and ice. The goal is to create something that will be able to extract ice from the surface of Mars, then melt and filter it into drinkable water that could also be used as rocket fuel. Exploring new worlds: Penn students design an ice drilling robot for Mars The team’s robot is designed to drill through soil on Mars, extract ice and clay, and then melt the ice and filter it into drinkable water.
Penn Professor Refutes Groupthink, Proving That Wisdom of Crowds Can Prevail Penn Professor Refutes Groupthink, Proving That Wisdom of Crowds Can Prevail Anyone following forecasting polls leading up to the 2016 election likely believed Hillary Clinton would become the 45th president of the United States. Although this opinion was the consensus among most political-opinion leaders and media, something clearly went wrong with these prediction tools.
Penn Engineers Show Key Feature for Modeling How Cells Spread in Fibrous Environments Penn Engineers Show Key Feature for Modeling How Cells Spread in Fibrous Environments One area of research within mechanobiology, the study of how physical forces influence biological processes, is on the interplay between cells and their environment and how it impacts their ability to grow and spread.
Penn Researchers Receive $9.25M Grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to Study Cellular Mechanisms of Concussion and Ways to Improve Recovery Penn Researchers Receive $9.25M Grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to Study Cellular Mechanisms of Concussion and Ways to Improve Recovery The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation announced today it has awarded a $9.25 million grant to Penn researchers to study the underlying mechanisms of concussion and help uncover potential clinical interventions that could improve recovery.
Penn/CHOP Study Will Translate Objective Diagnostic Measures for Sports-related Concussion Across the Lab, Clinic and Field Penn/CHOP Study Will Translate Objective Diagnostic Measures for Sports-related Concussion Across the Lab, Clinic and Field How can physicians and engineers help design athletic equipment and diagnostic tools to better protect teenaged athletes from concussions?
Encouraging Philadelphia high school students to ‘Tech It Out’ Encouraging Philadelphia high school students to ‘Tech It Out’ Tech It Out Philly introduces high school students to different topics in computer science, such as web development, robotics, circuitry, and hardware.
Konrad Kording Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Konrad Kording Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Konrad Kording has been named a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.