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Photo illustration by Matt Perko with abstract visuals by Iason Paterakis and Nefeli Manoudaki; Original photo by SCARECROW artworks, Unsplash
AI-generated visuals designed by UCSB researchers help ease the psychological toll of isolation for scientists living and working in Antarctica.
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Disk-shaped robots can act collectively to accomplish tasks such as lifting and manipulating objects, or supporting weight
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Tinish Bhattacharya in his UC Santa Barbara lab.
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Matt Perko
Using virtual reality, an AI module for future vision prostheses, designed by Michael Beyeler’s Bionic Vision Lab, creates practical and useful artificial vision.
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Scientists and engineers would love if separating rare earth elements were as easy as picking one out of a stack of blocks.
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Matt Perko
The small, wearable device is part of a system that monitors drug concentrations and delivers accurate dosages
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NVC Finals judge Jason Rollman (left, in blue shirt) congratulates EyeClimate, the 2024 New Venture Competition Finals champions (from second to left) Bowen Zhang, PhD student; Max Gordon, undergraduate student; and Satish Kumar, PhD student
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Matt Perko
Second-year environmental sciences major Matthew Schoen, March 2024