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Artistic rendering of a person wearing a VR headset, shown from the neck up, with swirls of color and things around him

Mon, 09/13/2021 | ASME

A Virtual River for Mental Health

Research in VR for mental health featured by ASME.

On the right is a man with a short beard and wearing a VR headset, to the left is a helicopter flying over an explosion drawn in yellow and black to make it look like he's seeing that simulation in VR

Sat, 09/11/2021 | The Washington Post

How virtual reality therapy can help make bad memories more manageable

Research in using VR to treat PTSD featured by the Washington Post.

Tue, 08/24/2021 | UW Mechanical Engineering

A vision for robotics

The UW MACS Lab builds robots and machines that combine vision, intelligence and manipulation to play games, perform tasks and advance robotics research goals.

Thu, 08/19/2021

Shen Ren wins Society for Cryobiology award

Shen Ren, a postdoctoral fellow in UW ME and the UW Center for Dialysis Innovation, has been named winner of the 2021 Peter L. Steponkus Crystal Award for his work in cryopreservation.

A tiny little flying robot about the size of two postage stamps sits in the palm of a hand

Tue, 08/17/2021 | National Science Foundation

Insect-scale flight system supported with new NSF grant

NSF has awarded the Autonomous Insect Robotics Lab, led by ME’s Sawyer Fuller, a grant to develop control systems for flying robots that weigh just fractions of an ounce.

A man in glasses with a beard and black t-shirt is working on something with a wire inside a science hood

Mon, 08/02/2021 | Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP)

Makhsous wins 2021 Cottone Award

The Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP) named ME postdoctoral scholar Sepehr Makhsous winner of the 2021 Dr. James A Cottone Award for Excellence in Investigative Research. The award goes to research that exemplifies the best in infection control and safety research in oral health care.

Professor Steve Brunton drawing lines with arrows on a lightboard

Thu, 07/29/2021

AI Institute for Dynamic Systems

UW leading new NSF institute for using artificial intelligence to understand dynamic systems.

Ten students, several wearing purple, stand in a group with two small wheeled robots in front of them

Thu, 07/22/2021 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

ARUW takes first place in North American RoboMaster University League competition

This summer, Advanced Robotics at the University of Washington (ARUW), a team of University of Washington students led by Mechanical Engineering graduate Sig Johnson, took first place in the inaugural North American RoboMaster University League Competition.