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Robot Rebuilt gets a grip on wine-serving robot (w/ video)

(Phys.org)—Robot research has its own unique show of hands as scientists focus on improving human-like abilities of grasping, pushing, and manipulating objects. Grabbing current attention is an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Eduardo Torres-Jara, whose MIT spinoff, Robot Rebuilt, is featuring the robot Tactico, whose hand dexterity involves sensitive fingers capable of handling wine glasses and coffee mugs without requiring broom pans and mops in their aftermath.

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Professor From Princess Sumaya University For Technology Awarded National Recognition By The Hisham Adeeb Hijjawi Award For Applied Science

Amman, Jordan (PRWEB) April 20, 2005 Dr. Wejdan Abu-Elhaija, an assistant professor in the King Abdullah II School for Electrical Engineering department at the Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) was recognized with the Hisham Adeeb Hijjawi Applied Science Award in the Information Technology and Communication segment on her research, “Deriving the Signal-to-Noise Ratio Probability

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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Names Professor Fawwaz T. Ulaby Founding Provost

Dharan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (PRWEB) March 21, 2008 His Excellency Minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia and Chairman of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Board of Trustees, today announced the appointment of Professor Fawwaz T. Ulaby as Founding Provost and Executive Vice President of

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University of Texas at Austin Professor Yale Patt Wins First IEEE Computer Society B. Ramakrishna Rau Award

Los Alamitos, California (PRWEB) September 12, 2011 Yale N. Patt, an electrical and computer engineering professor with the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as the first recipient of the inaugural IEEE Computer Society B. Ramakrishna Rau Award.   For more than four decades Patt has combined

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MIT Professor Arvind Wins 2012 IEEE Computer Society Goode Award

Los Alamitos, California (PRWEB) April 19, 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Arvind, a world-renowned leader in computer languages for parallel processing, has been named the winner of the IEEE Computer Societys 2012 Harry H. Goode Award. Arvind, MITs Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, was recognized for fundamental contributions to research in

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