Embodied AI HAND ERC’s research advances Northwestern Engineering’s leadership in embodied AI. A strategic priority for the M c Cormick School of Engineering, such research leverages the school’s ...

With the recent release of its first images, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is one giant step closer to launching its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) — a decade-long astronomical ...

To create a safer, more practical robot, Professor Ryan Truby and his team developed a soft, flexible actuator that enables robots to move by expanding and contracting—just like a human muscle. To ...

A wearable sensor system that predicts fatigue at work. A tiny implant that delivers diabetes drugs on demand. A flexible patch that optimizes the sense of touch for the visually impaired. Through the ...

Northwestern University has launched an institutional network dedicated to the integration of data science and AI across all aspects of research and education. The Northwestern Network for ...

Northwestern Engineering undergraduates have been collaborating with neighboring groups and individuals to address human challenges for nearly three decades. In Design Thinking and Communication (DTC) ...

Growing up in Haiti, Northwestern Engineering’s Ludmilla Aristilde looked critically at the land and thought about how soil sustains plants. This came naturally; her father was both an educator and ...

A message from Dean Christopher SchuhArtificial intelligence (AI) and data science might be the current buzzwords in technology news, but for those of us in engineering academia, these fields have ...

Roboticists have no idea how to manually design a robot as athletic and intelligent as even the simplest animals. We could take inspiration from the evolutionary design of animals. But we will need to ...

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Northwestern University is hosting the Diffusion Fundamentals XI conference from June 30-July 2 in Evanston. This event, “Spreading in Nature, Technology, and Society” will bring together a highly ...

What skills or knowledge did you learn in the undergraduate program that you think will stay with you for a lifetime? I learned a lot in my four years here, but I would say the most important was ...