When Sofya Akhmametyeva (MSR ‘17) arrived at Northwestern Engineering’s Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program in 2015, her goal was straightforward. She wanted to apply machine learning to ...

A career in robotics is one of the most coveted things for those interested in engineering and automation. Presently, there is an explosion in the number of companies seeking innovative robotics ...

Professor Brenna Argall talks about the importance of her Northwestern course and how her students will be able to implement the lessons they learn. When Professor Brenna Argall talks about the ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Hawaii is trying to prepare its K-12 students to fill the massive shortages of jobs in STEM-related fields. The Hawaii Space Grant Consortium, a community educational program supported by the National ...

In the first days of my son’s life, during the fall of 2023, he spent much of the time when he wasn’t sleeping or eating engaged in what some cognitive scientists call “motor babbling.” His arms and ...

Robots are everywhere, from the assembly line of major factories to the vacuums cleaning the living room carpet. As big tech companies continue to innovate, they are only becoming increasingly woven ...

"I remember when, I was like in the third or fourth grade, that I dragged this big tube TV from down the road into my room and tore it apart," the Elkhart High School freshman said. Likewise, Weston ...