Tom’s commitment to advance both technology and the common good is evident to all who are fortunate to work with him. Maxine Brown has worked with Tom DeFanti since 1977, and is now Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which Tom co-founded with art professor Dan Sandin in 1973.
Category: University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Scientists develop humanlike biological robots
New York, Feb 19 – A team of scientists has developed small, soft biological robots — bio-bots — that can walk and swim on their own or when triggered by electrical or light signals. These tiny muscle-powered robots were first 3-D printed and then seeded with muscle cells.
Now you can “build your own” bio-bot
For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been developing a class of walking “bio-bots” powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical and optical pulses. Now, Rashid Bashir’s bioengineering research group is sharing the recipe for the current generation of bio-bots.
This Caltech robot looks and flies like a bat, and could replace traditional drones
Caltech researcher Soon-Jo Chung shows off “Bat Bot B2” a prototype for a new type of drone. Inspired by the agility and efficiency of bat flight, engineers at Caltech and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a winged robot they say could dramatically increase the flight time and safety of future drones.
This robot mimics key flight mechanism of bats
New York, Feb 5 – A new self-contained robot that mimics the key flight mechanisms of bats has been developed by scientists. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Caltech have developed Bat Bot with soft, articulated wings that can mimic the biological bats.
New bat-inspired flying robot developed13 min ago
Washington, Feb 2 Scientists have developed a new robotic bat with soft, articulated wings that can mimic the key flight mechanisms of the flying mammals. Bats have long captured the imaginations of scientists and engineers with their unrivalled agility and manoeuvring characteristics, achieved by functionally versatile dynamic wing conformations as well as more than forty active and passive joints on the wings.