Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A ...

A relatively simple device in your smartphone that counts steps, among other things, also has the capacity to be used as a listening device, according to researchers at the University of Illinois ...

Four faculty members from the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering have received a total of $475,000 in grants to support projects through the Amazon-Illinois Center on Interactive Conversational ...

A team from Illinois and Mayo Clinic have developed a new technique for creating “microcancer” cell cultures. It allows researchers to form hundreds of microcancers in a high-throughput format using a ...

When the average person thinks of data storage, things like flash drives, Google Cloud, Box, or maybe SD cards come to mind. While this storage may seem infinite, all of these have physical ...

Human beings have around 10 trillion cells in their bodies, resulting in about 10 billion miles of DNA - almost twice the diameter of the solar system. Coordinated Science Lab graduate student Zachary ...

Illinois ECE PhD student Pratik Prasad Joshi was awarded the NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Spa Pratik Joshi ce Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship for his proposal ...

In recent years, hardware accelerators have increasingly been used to improve system performance and energy efficiency by doing specialized tasks that would otherwise be done less efficiently by CPUs.

Reflecting on his father’s habit of regularly penning newspaper articles, plays, and stories, CSL professor Sayan Mitra ascribes his writing to, perhaps, a familial trait. Also inspired by the work of ...

Training in research ethics is mandatory for many US graduate students and postdocs, but there is little evidence that formal classes prompt scientists to conduct research ethically. However, the ...

To achieve the full promise of extended reality (XR) systems, Illinois researchers have launched an open-source testbed and, alongside key industry partners, a new consortium for the broad XR ...

The bond between a parent and their child is forged within the first few weeks of life. The nurse places the baby in their parents’ arms where it will be comforted and rocked for countless hours of ...