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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“This is, to my knowledge, the first use of AI that demonstrably improves productivity, especially in health care. Even in other fields, I haven’t seen anything close to a 40 percent boost,” said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 SchuhOne of the best parts of my job as dean has been talking with faculty, staff, students, and alumni about the future of engineering and, of course, the future of ...

As president of Schneider Electric North America Operations, Aamir Paul (’00) leads all operations from strategy to execution in Canada, Central America, Mexico, and the US—delivering best-in-class ...

A message from Dean Christopher SchuhAs I write this in early May, we are at a difficult moment for our research enterprise. As has been widely reported, a significant portion of Northwestern’s ...