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New haptic display technology creates 3D graphics you can see and feel
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Tinish Bhattacharya in his UC Santa Barbara lab.
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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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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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Second-year environmental sciences major Matthew Schoen, March 2024
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NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan speaking at the Engineering Sciences Building
