Needed: Soft robots to solve hard problems
Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 11:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Seeking to explore potential applications for soft, deformable robots, a largely unexplored area of robotics engineering, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) professor has secured nearly $600,000 in federal funding for two separate projects that could point toward practical uses in medicine, manufacturing, and disaster response.