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Jul 05, 2023
This Robot Has All the Moves—Eight, To Be Precise
The Morphobot (M4), designed by a team of researchers led by ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani, was featured in the IEEE Spectrum article “This Robot Has All the Moves—Eight, To […]
Jul 03, 2023
Finding Inspiration From Nature To Create the Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4)
ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani’s research on “Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4) With Appendage Repurposing for Locomotion Plasticity Enhancement” was published in Nature Communications.
Jul 03, 2023
The Future of Space Exploration Is a Transforming, Animal-like Robot, Scientists Say
The multi-modal mobility morphobot (M4), designed by a team of researchers led by ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani, was featured in articles by ABC News, Science, Independent, Interesting Engineering, ZME […]
Jul 03, 2023
Groundbreaking, Animal-Inspired Robot Rolls, Crawls and Flies Into the Future of Robotics
The multi-modal mobility morphobot (M4), designed by a team of researchers led by ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani, is a shape-shifting robot with eight modes of mobility inspired by animals, capable of seamlessly transitioning between crawling, flying, rotating, and using thrusters, with potential applications in space exploration, package delivery, and search and rescue operations.
Jul 03, 2023
How Clean Is the Air in Your Neighborhood? This New Northeastern Project Aims To Find Out
CEE Professor Yang Zhang, who leads the interdisciplinary impact engine team iSUPER, is installing over 100 stationary pollution sensors in Brookline and Chelsea and using a mobile lab to measure air quality block-by-block in Greater Boston municipalities. She aims to identify hyperlocal pollutant hotspots and support strategies to reduce air pollution.
Jul 01, 2023
The Art and Science of Bones
Bioengineering Professor Sandra Shefelbine was featured in The Hometown Weekly newspaper in “The Art and Science of Bones.”
Jul 01, 2023
CEE Co-ops Wins Spring 2023 Scholarships from DN Tanks
Civil engineering students Catherine Yates and Meilin Garfinkel won Spring 2023 scholarships from their co-op employer DN Tanks, a company specializing in engineering concrete tanks for a wide variety of water, wastewater, fuel, and other infrastructure and industrial purposes.
Jun 30, 2023
Best Paper Award at ACM HPDC 2023
Baolin Li, PhD’24, computer engineering, and ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari received the Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at the 32nd ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) for their paper on “Kairos: Building Cost-Efficient Machine Learning Inference Systems With Heterogeneous Cloud Resources.”