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Associate Professor Marco Pavone and PhD student Stephanie Newdick holding their ReachBot prototype.

Dec 5, 2023

The limitations of being human got you down? There’s a robot for that

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Abstract painting of human and AI Robot communicating.

Dec 1, 2023

The future of AI Chat: Foundation models and responsible innovation

From left, Anton Molina, Anesta Kothari, and Manu Prakash show the sisal fiber and the cotton-like material they’ve produced from the sisal.

Nov 30, 2023

Sustainable, plant-based menstrual pads could improve access to hygiene products

Health, Materials

Stream of pedestrians crossing a major city street.

Nov 29, 2023

Big cities foster socioeconomic segregation. Here’s how we can fix that

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

appel hydrogel web banner image

Nov 20, 2023

New drug delivery system could reduce daily diabetes shots to just three a year

Health, Materials, Technology & Society

Aerial view of forest with mist.

Nov 17, 2023

The future of ecohydrology

Close-up of miniature solar photovoltaic cells.

Nov 16, 2023

Empowering the next generation of sustainable energy researchers

Electronics & Networking, Energy, Technology & Society

Nov 14, 2023

Stanford School of Engineering and the Hoover Institution unveil Stanford Emerging Technology Review

Technology & Society

Side-by-side images of a breast milk duct showing the transition from non-invasive to invasive cancer, with cells in red and the basement membrane in blue.

Nov 13, 2023

Breast cancer cells collaborate to break free and invade into the surrounding tissue

Oct 30, 2023

What’s standing in the way of sustainable steel?

Environment, Materials

Close up image of a camera lens.

Oct 27, 2023

The future of computational imaging

Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

President Biden poses with John Cioffi during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.

Oct 26, 2023

Stanford engineer John Cioffi receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Technology & Society

The phrase, “We love BioEng” in lights at night.

Oct 23, 2023

Bioengineering: Where life sciences and engineering meet

Computation & Data, Energy, Environment, Health

Occupational therapist Julie Muccini reviews an OpenCap capture with a study subject.

Oct 19, 2023

OpenCap: Sophisticated human biomechanics from smartphone video

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

Motor Neuron under the microscope in a lab.

Oct 13, 2023

The future of neuroscience: Karl Deisseroth sheds light on the inner workings of the brain

Tidybot being trained to clean an indoor space.

Oct 5, 2023

This robot learns to clean your space just the way you like it

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

With a simplified machine learning technique, AI researchers created a real-world “robodog” able to leap, climb, crawl, and squeeze past physical barriers as never before.

Oct 4, 2023

New dog, old tricks: New AI approach yields ‘athletically intelligent' robotic dog

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Group shot of incoming graduate class of 2023, taken from an above balcony.

Oct 3, 2023

Nearly 1,000 new graduate students make up Stanford Engineering’s 2023 cohort

3D rendered illustration of an atom

Sep 29, 2023

The future of quantum mechanics: Unraveling entanglement's secrets

Sep 28, 2023

When antitrust regulation can backfire

Technology & Society