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Muyinatu Bell Receives NIH Trailblazer Award

July 31, 2018

ECE Assistant Professor Muyinatu Bell is conducting pioneering research that integrates deep learning with ultrasound image formation to provide interventional radiologists with a fundamentally new type of ultrasound image. These novel images only display structures of interest, such as a needle tip as it is inserted into the kidney and the corresponding kidney target location, […]

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Galen Robotics wins BioHealth Capital Region’s 3rd Annual Crab Trap Competition

July 12, 2018

Johns Hopkins University spinout Galen Robotics won the BioHealth Capital Region’s 3rd Annual Crab Trap Competition, held in late April at the MedImmune campus in Gaithersburg. Founded in 2016 by BioHealth Innovation, Inc. and MedImmune, the competition spotlights early stage biotechnology companies with commercial potential. Galen develops cooperatively controlled surgical platforms designed to increase surgeons’ […]

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LCSR Students participate in Robomaster AI Challenge at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation

July 12, 2018

Yuxiang Gao’s favorite aspect of the Robomaster AI Challenge at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) wasn’t the actual competition. It was the late-night coding sessions, last-minute bug fixing, and sense of teamwork and camaraderie that he experienced. “Overall, this experience is worth cherishing,” said the robotics MSE student from Wuhan, China. Gao, […]

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A new way to create ‘soft robots’

October 23, 2017

Biochemical engineers at Johns Hopkins University used sequences of DNA molecules to cause water-based gels to change shape, demonstrating a new tactic to produce soft robots and “smart” medical devices that don’t rely on cumbersome wires, batteries, or tethers. The research, supervised by three faculty members in the university’s Whiting School of Engineering, is detailed online today […]

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