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A person on the deck of a large ship lowers a robotic device over the side by a cable, beside an orange life ring on the railing.
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How do you clean a giant ship? This student builds robots for the job

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by Katya Poltorak
Joshua Joseph speaks into a microphone to an audience, gesturing as he talks, with an attendee recording on a phone in the foreground.
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Robotics helped kick-start this grad’s career at Tesla

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by Rich McKay
Raj Harshit Srirangam wearing glasses, his face lit by a laptop screen displaying lines of code, his hands visible on the keyboard in the foreground.
Science & Technology

This robotics professor has a new strategy for AI era homework

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by Cesareo Contreras
Portrait of Samantha Johnson in a modern building.
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Samantha Johnson ’21, robotics CEO, to speak at Boston Convocation

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by Cyrus Moulton
Robotic prosthetic hand with exposed wiring grips a red disc, with a laptop and small objects nearby on a desk.
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Northeastern undergrads given crash course on Seattle’s robotics scene

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by Peter Rubinstein
Illustration of a scientist facing an X-ray imaging device and a screen displaying data points, their body overlaid with a glowing neural network pattern connecting to the instruments, symbolizing AI-guided analysis of lab equipment.
Science & Technology

This AI scientist can run experiments. Self-driving labs coming next

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak
A student's face is reflected in the glass of a Prusa Core One 3D printer as it prints, with the print head and extruded red material visible in the foreground.
University News

Summer school robots give future engineers hands-on inspiration

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by Matthew Ponsford
Shalini Agrawal stands beside a large yellow underwater vehicle on a dock, part of the Orpheus Ocean co-op project.
University News

This co-op helped an underwater robotics startup map the seafloor

Headshot of Cesareo Contreras
by Cesareo Contreras
Student Aobo Liu works on a firefighting robot.
Science & Technology

This robot can snuff out wildfires with cryogenic liquid

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by Rich McKay
Northeastern students work on a robotics system in a lab setting.
Science & Technology

This robotic system may soon be used to prevent forest fires

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by Cesareo Contreras
Mark Patterson, an older white man, is reflected on a screen attached to a device he is holding.
University News

Mark Patterson receives Fulbright to explore hydrothermal vents

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by Tanner Stening
A man leaps in the air to send a kick into a humanoid robot while others look on.
Science & Technology

Physical AI is already here. But what is it?

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by Tanner Stening