Nov 22, 2016
Chih-Ming Ho, a UCLA distinguished research professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of bioengineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS Fellows are elected by their peers, in honor of their...
Nov 18, 2016
LARA — “Luskin Automated Robotic Assistant” — will be able to greet guests and answer questions about the campus and the conference center. (Jennifer Young/UCLA) The robot is at your service UCLA engineering students built the robot concierge for the UCLA Meyer and...
Nov 10, 2016
UCLA to play lead role in national Smart Manufacturing Institute. Engineering professor Xiaochun Li is the technical director of the institute’s California region. By Matthew Chin | UCLA Newsroom writer Alison Hewitt contributed to this story In June President Obama...
Nov 4, 2016
UCLA MAE Associate Professor Veronica Santos was interview in the recent Science News article “For robots, artificial intelligence gets physical,” and her robot testbed from the UCLA Biomechatronics Lab was featured on the cover. Excerpted from the...
Nov 4, 2016
Lihua Jin has joined UCLA’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department as an assistant professor. Jin’s research interests include mechanics of soft materials; constitutive behavior of stimuli-responsive materials; design and fabrication of soft robotics;...