Most witch doctors believe in healing, but this Witch Doctor, designed by a team that includes two alumni, is bent on maiming, scorching, and annihilating other robots. Witch Doctor is a 220-pound robot, which, with its flame-throwing sidekick, Shaman, has fought to destroy other robotic competitors in the second season of ABC’s BattleBots. Andrea Suarez, […]
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Pen Ultimate
R+D Update Pen Ultimate Using 10,000 pens, Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos, an assistant professor of civil, architectural, and environmental engineering at the University of Miami, along with AAU Anastas and Yann Antere, fashioned “The BIC Structure,” an experimental suspended pavilion, for the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures 2015 Symposium on Future Visions in Amsterdam. “The BIC […]
A Magic Leap into the Future
Alumnus Rony Abovitz, whose Magic Leap venture has attracted $542 million in funding, told students they must be bold to chase their dreams. Being a successful entrepreneur, he explained, is like jumping off a high cliff with a bag of parts and building the airplane that will save you on the way down. “Bold means […]
Living the Green
A glimpse inside four UM-fueled, eco-friendly housing projects More than just a place to rest your head, home should be a safe haven. But these days, we worry whether the paint on our picket fence is toxic. We fear that our dream house may be spewing waste or simply wasting resources. In need of a […]
Student Spotlight
Living Colors Creative expression gives engineering student Saramati Narasimhan a path out of pain. One bright Saturday in August, Saramati Narasimhan stood on campus sheathed in a plastic Glad bag as friends armed with paint bottles squirted a rainbow of fluorescent colors all over her. “I had to tell them to stop flinging paint into […]
Rocking the Red Planet
Citizen ’Cane Rocking the Red Planet From her undergraduate days studying mechanical and aerospace engineering in Miami through her master’s degree projects at M.I.T., Missouri-raised Erisa K. Hines, B.S.M.E. ’02, dreamed of exploring space. That opportunity arose in 2006, when she was hired by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech. Just five years later she […]
Where Humans Fear to Tread
Tackling unprecedented dilemmas in the robotic age Robotic aircraft and drones, unmanned machines with names like Predator and Reaper—in our brave new world, high-tech robots are becoming increasingly prominent in war, law enforcement, and many aspects of civilian society. The legal, ethical, and policy questions raised by such advances were addressed during We Robot, an […]
