Category Archives: Research

UAB Engineering launches micro-air vehicle program from uabnews on Vimeo.

Senior engineering students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’sSchool of Engineering were challenged to build a MAV weighing less than 10 grams and powered by a four-volt battery. Continue reading →

This video shows a demonstration of the “Cheetah” robot galloping at speeds of up to 18 miles per hour (mph), setting a new land speed record for legged robots. The previous record was 13.1 mph, set at MIT in 1989. Continue reading →

This video shows the full version of Vijay Kumar’s presentation at the recent TED2012 Conference, which terminates with the James Bond sequence. Continue reading →

Deputy Dean for Education at Penn University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab member Vijay Kumar presented some groundbreaking work at the TED2012 Conference, an international gathering of people and ideas from technology, entertainment and design, including this remarkable video of the lab’s quadrotors. Continue reading →

Chinese navy researchers have published a paper explaining how they plan to hunt submarines using ship-launched unmanned aircraft. Continue reading →

UTA researchers will gain access to a database of Department of Defense patents as part of a joint venture with the newly established Unmanned Aerial Systems Consortium. Continue reading →