Colin Soguero in a Magic Leap AR headset.

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder Engineering alumni take second place at “olympics of hackathonsâ€

Sept. 28, 2021

A team of three recent ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder College of Engineering graduates recently took second place at Pinnacle, coined "The Olympics of Hackathons."

Woman stands in front of a black and white striped wall in the Moire Room at Meow Wolf Denver.

Meow Wolf Denver features work by ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder community

Sept. 18, 2021

The 12 members of the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder community who contributed to the new $50-million Meow Wolf Denver location are all associated with the ATLAS Institute.

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Augmented reality technology to give battery storage facility workers "X-ray" vision

Sept. 16, 2021

To assist first responders and site operators, the ACME Lab developed ARMAS—augmented reality maintenance and safety—a marker-based AR system that lets the user see color-coded visualizations of battery cells inside containers.

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"Cowbird," a dance-triggered multimedia performance by Brad Gallagher

Sept. 1, 2021

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CTD offers company-sponsored capstone option

Aug. 11, 2021

Creative Technology and Design seniors may now opt to work on sponsored projects: "Students work on real-world projects in a client-contractor relationship, and companies have the opportunity to work with creative engineering students exploring interesting and leading-edge creative technology projects.â€

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RoomShift research: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine's cover story

Aug. 10, 2021

THING Lab researchers, led by recent PhD graduate, Ryo Suzuki, developed a swarm of shape-changing robots that move furniture around a room, opening up new haptic ideas for virtual reality.

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Origami comes to life with new shape-changing materials

July 22, 2021

Imagine opening up a book of nature photos only to see a kaleidoscope of graceful butterflies flutter out from the page. Such fanciful storybooks might soon be possible thanks to the work of a team of designers and engineers at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder’s ATLAS Institute.

The back of heads of two young girls in a hammock by a lake.

Digital wellness program provides resources to combat social media’s negative psychological impacts

July 20, 2021

ATLAS Instructor Annie Margaret is creating a Digital Wellness Summer Program for middle-school girls that provides strategies adolescents can use to minimize the negative psychological impacts of social media.

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Ellen Do co-chairs ACM Creativity & Cognition 2021

June 21, 2021

​Ellen Do, professor of computer science with the ATLAS Institute, has a long history of doing community outreach and service for the ACM Creativity & Cognition Conference, and this year is no exception.

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ATLAS research spins off to Catalyze ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ

June 21, 2021

Two teams from the ATLAS Institute were selected to participate in Catalyze ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, a highly selective, summer-long startup accelerator that combines world-class mentorship, funding and dedicated co-working space.

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