Caroline Perry
Robot hands gain a gentler touch
Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed an inexpensive tactile sensor for robotic hands that is sensitive enough to turn a brute machine into a dexterous manipulator.
Tags: Caroline Perry, Engineering & Technology, hands, haptics, Harvard Biorobotics Laboratory, HarvardScience, Leif Jentoft, Office of Technology Development, Robert D. Howe, robotics, Robots, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, tactile sensing, TakkTile, Yaroslav Tenzer
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Imagining impact, and believing in it
Sixth annual Harvard College Innovation Challenge supports student projects through a year of development and beyond. From common roots — intellectual curiosity and the desire to make life just a little bit easier — 64 ideas blossomed this year in the challenge.
Tags: Awards, Campus & Community, Caroline Perry, Dario Sava, Harvard College Innovation Challenge, I3 Challenge, Innovation, Jacqueline Schechter, Majahonkhe Shabangu, myLINGO, Nathan Georgette, Olenka Polak, OpportunitySpace, Paul Bottino, Project Lede, Roy Zhang, Sawubona, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, TECH, Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard
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Applied physics as art
Harvard researchers spray-paint ultrathin coatings that change color with only a few atoms’ difference in thickness.
Tags: Applied Physics, Caroline Perry, coatings, Color, Engineering & Technology, Federico Capasso, germanium, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, HarvardScience, interference, materials science, Mikhail Kats, nanophotonics, Nature Materials, Optics, Patrice Genevet, Physics, Reflection, Romain Blanchard, thin films
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Pecking order
Harvard researchers have found that a new investigation of tissues and signaling pathways in finches’ beaks reveals surprising flexibility in the birds’ evolutionary tool kit.
Tags: Arhat Abzhanov, Caribbean bullfinches, Caroline Perry, Charles Darwin, Galapagos Islands, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, HarvardScience, Kevin J. Burns, Life Sciences, Michael Brenner, National Institutes of Healt, National Science Foundation, OEB, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ricardo Mallarino, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Needle beam stays on point
A Harvard-led team of researchers has demonstrated a new type of light beam that propagates without spreading outward, remaining very narrow and controlled along an unprecedented distance. It could greatly reduce signal loss for on-chip optical systems and may eventually assist the development of a more powerful class of microprocessors.
Tags: Applied Physics, Caroline Perry, CNRS, cosine-Gauss plasmon beam, diffraction, Engineering & Technology, Federico Capasso, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, HarvardScience, Jiao Lin, light, microprocessors, nanophotonics, needle beam, optical interconnects, Patrice Genevet, Physical Review Letters, plasmonics, plasmons, quantum optics
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Super gel
A team of experts in mechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering at Harvard has created an extremely stretchy and tough gel that may suggest a new method for replacing damaged cartilage in human joints.
Tags: : Hydrogel, Alginate, Artificial cartilage, Bioengineering, Biomedical Materials, Caroline Perry, Crack bridging, David J. Mooney, Energy dissipation, Engineering & Technology, Gel, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, HarvardScience, Jeong-Yun Sun, Joost J. Vlassak, materials science, Mechanics, Polyacrylamide, Zhigang Suo
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Clues in the cucumber’s climb
Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange coiling behavior in the grasping tendrils of the cucumber plant, have characterized a new type of spring that is soft when pulled gently and stiff when pulled strongly.
Tags: Andrew McCormick, Applied Physics, bio-inspired engineering, Botany, Caroline Perry, Cell Biology, Coiling, cucumber, Engineering & Technology, Evolution, fiber ribbon, HarvardScience, Joshua Puzey, L Mahadevan, mathematical modeling, mechanical engineering, morphology, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Sharon Gerbode, springs, tendril, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Posted in Andrew McCormick, Applied Physics, bio-inspired engineering, Botany, Caroline Perry, Cell Biology, Coiling, cucumber, Engineering & Technology, Evolution, fiber ribbon, HarvardScience, Joshua Puzey, L Mahadevan, mathematical modeling, mechanical engineering, morphology, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Sharon Gerbode, springs, tendril, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering | Comments Off
Clues in the cucumber’s climb
Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange coiling behavior in the grasping tendrils of the cucumber plant, have characterized a new type of spring that is soft when pulled gently and stiff when pulled strongly.
Tags: Andrew McCormick, Applied Physics, bio-inspired engineering, Botany, Caroline Perry, Cell Biology, Coiling, cucumber, Engineering & Technology, Evolution, fiber ribbon, HarvardScience, Joshua Puzey, L Mahadevan, mathematical modeling, mechanical engineering, morphology, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Sharon Gerbode, springs, tendril, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
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