Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A ...

Four faculty members from the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering have received a total of $475,000 in grants to support projects through the Amazon-Illinois Center on Interactive Conversational ...

Large behavior models have the potential to do for robotics what large language models have done for current AI technologies. Joohyung Kim, an Illinois Grainger Engineering professor of electrical and ...

Varun Chandrasekaran, an Illinois Grainger professor of electrical & computer engineering, is among a team of researchers who have received a $5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Meta, and concrete supplier, Ozinga, partnered on discovering better concrete formulas using AI. Written by Kim Gudeman, CSL The ...

A team from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign competed in the A2RL Drone Racing Competition, where drones race autonomously at over 110 mph with zero ...

The work described in the 2005 PADS paper was a springboard towards further achievements. Written by Jenny Applequist Last month, David M. Nicol received a “Test of Time” award at the 39th ACM SIGSIM ...

Illinois ECE PhD student Pratik Prasad Joshi was awarded the NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Spa ce Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship for his proposal "Quantification of ...

CSL professor Kris Hauser’s team of graduate students will continue working toward the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE – a large-scale global incentive competition – after earning one of 38 semifinalist ...

Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering have introduced a new framework for training autonomous robots using video demonstrations. Their innovation makes data collection more accessible ...

See into a celebration of the Coordinated Science Laboratory’s 75th anniversary at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For 75 years, the Coordinated Science Laboratory has been at the ...

Josep Torrellas recently received the Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker award, which recognizes faculty noticed at the national and international level for their dedication to academic excellence and ...