Research

  • DARPA Subterranean Challenge
    ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder is one of several funded teams in the Subterranean Challenge, a competition launched by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to stimulate and test ideas around autonomous robot use in difficult underground environments.
  • A visualization of multiple leaks in the field.
    Update April 12: How Detecting Methane Leaks Could Turn Into Big Business: Greg Rieker and Caroline Alden discuss the new technology on Colorado Public Radio.   Listen here [video:https://
  • Ronggui Yang and Xiaobo Yin with students in a greenhouse.
    ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder engineers have received a $2.45 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop a scalable, cost-effective greenhouse material that splits sunlight into photosynthetically efficient light and
  • HASEL artificial muscles for next-generation soft robotics.
    Soft, self-healing devices mimic biological muscles, point to next generation of human-like roboticsIn the basement of the Engineering Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, a group of researchers is working to create the next generation of
  • Marina Vance in a labcoat.
    Marina Vance, an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering and core faculty of the Environmental Engineering program at the University of Colorado Boulder has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan
  • Advanced Functional Materials Cover
    "We can rebuild him. We have the technology," began every episode of the television show The Six Million Dollar Man. Unfortunately, in the real world, medicine has not been able to create flawless substitutes for human body parts. The devices we have, like replacement knees and hips, are imperfect and often wear out and must be swapped out again.

    Associate Professor Corey Neu would like to change that, using material from...
  • Victor Bright with his researchers in front of the Boulder Flatiron mountains.
    At a concert, bigger is better when it comes to amplifiers and speakers, but research in ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder mechanical engineering professor Victor Bright's Multidisciplinary Engineering Micro-Systems Group is demonstrating that small speakers can
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