3/8/2023
We’re not ready for the electrification era
To slash emissions and battle climate change, countries across the world are pushing the adoption of electricity-based technologies like electric vehicles and heat pumps. But Associate Professor Wencong Su says the grid is nowhere near ready for a lot more...
3/6/2023
AI's mysterious ‘black box’ problem, explained
Artificial intelligence can do amazing things that humans can’t, but in many cases, we have no idea how AI systems make their decisions. -Dearborn Associate Professor Samir Rawashdeh explains why that’s a big deal....
2/22/2023
If robots could talk (or at least make intelligible sounds)
During a recent NSF-funded project, Assistant Professor Alireza Mohammadi stumbled on an interesting discovery that could make it easier to understand what robots might be trying to tell us....
1/9/2023
How can we make the electric grid more resilient to cyberattacks?
-Dearborn faculty are teaming up with the U.S. Department of Energy and GE to protect power systems from a serious emerging threat....
11/30/2022
-Dearborn officially cuts the ribbon on the Omron Robotics and Human Factors Lab
The teaching and research lab features a special class of robots called “cobots,” which will help students explore the frontiers of human-robot collaboration....
10/12/2022
Have we been thinking about autonomous vehicles all wrong?
-Dearborn Assistant Professor Jaerock Kwon sees driverless vehicles not as giant computers, but as cognitive beings with bodies....
10/3/2022
-Dearborn announces inaugural Chancellor's Inclusive Excellence Fellows
Professor Hafiz Malik and Associate Professor Terri Laws will work on two projects designed to make campus a more inclusive place to learn, teach and do research....
9/28/2022
-Dearborn is getting a really cool new autonomous research vehicle
Driverless vehicle research on campus is about to get a big boost thanks to a new National Science Foundation grant....
5/18/2020
The enduring wisdom of fuzzy logic
In an era where we expect our machines to think and act more like us, a quirky branch of computer science is getting a fresh look....
8/3/2020
Why humanlike robots are such a mind-bending engineering challenge
For a long time, science fiction has helped us imagine life alongside robots that move just like us. But realizing that dream is still a technological moonshot....