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ME Ph.D. candidate Ekta Samani’s research aims to improve visual perception in autonomous robots.

ME researchers are exploring how robotics and AI can help improve manufacturing workers’ safety, standardize processes and more.

Ph.D. candidate and instructor Elijah Kuska is advancing biomechanics research while meeting students where they are.

ME researchers turn to nature to investigate how nanomaterials and nanostructure makes materials more resistant to breaking.

ME researchers improved a mathematical model describing how birds flock together – which could be applied to build robots that move in the same way. 

The ME alum reflects on his time at the UW, his career and his role on the department’s Executive Advisory Board.