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Who has the best self-driving car? Northeastern robotics team captures first place in premier competition

Headshot of Cyrus Moulton
by Cyrus Moulton
A boat travels past melting icebergs.
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A Northeastern professor is using aquatic drones to measure how quickly icebergs are melting

by Cody Mello-Klein
Northeastern computer engineering student Philip Andress makes adjustments to the cable driven robot in the Richards Hall lab where NURobotics meets and works.

Northeastern club went dormant during the pandemic. Now it numbers 470 members and eight robots.

by Ian Thomsen
Sketch drawing of a robot
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Can a robot seal air leaks to help this old (and cold) house?

by Peter Ramjug
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This robot uses tactile sign language to help deaf-blind people communicate independently

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki
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This robot is going to map uncharted kelp forests in the Arctic

by Emily Arntsen
Man working in a robotics lab

Are robots out to steal our jobs? No, say Northeastern students, who will be sharing research with an international audience into how machines and humans can work together.

by Peter Ramjug

She deconstructed robotic toys as a kid. Now she builds them for Hasbro.

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki
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Students take a self-driving Lincoln out for a spin

by Peter Ramjug
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He built a COVID-19-busting robot to sanitize your desk

by Hillary Chabot
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He’s building the next generation of autonomous robots

by Roberto Molar Candanosa
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Testing medical protective gear is the perfect job for robots–but not without the help of humans. 

by Roberto Molar Candanosa