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BYU engineers are accelerating the ‘helpful robot’ revolution

By Sharman Gill January 23, 2025 08:50 AM
BYU robotics experts are building a humanoid robot that can impressively lift large and unwieldy objects such as ladders, kayaks, car tires, chairs, and heavy boxes. And it does so safely because its whole structure is flexible.

New agreement with Idaho National Laboratory opens doors

By Elizabeth Williams January 17, 2025 02:50 PM
Idaho National Laboratory and BYU now have a five-year formal agreement of collaboration.

Combat robotics ignite sparks of interest in BYU community

By Taylin Galloway January 14, 2025 05:19 PM
This group of BYU Engineering students enjoys learning how to be engineers by battling robots.

Origami-inspired space tech: BYU mechanical engineers create deployable systems for NASA and U.S. Air Force

By Sharman Gill January 13, 2025 08:00 AM
BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research lab, inspired by the ancient art of origami, is building a foldable, compact design that could help launch satellite systems to space in a rocket. After five years of research, a team led by professors Larry Howell and Spencer Magleby has succeeded in creating foldable antenna systems than can deploy off space rockets and permanently open to enhance satellite systems.