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NSF Fellows Help Brooklyn Robotics Team Win Challenge
research.gov, March 6th, 2012
Students from the It Takes a Village Academy in Flatbush, N.Y., not only have the math, physics and programming skills to make a working robot, it appears they have the fastest, most agile 'bot in New York City. The teens--many of them recent Haitian immigrants and survivors of 2010's...
Wireless Communications Pioneer Ted Rappaport heading to NYU
By John Egan, Technorati, March 6th, 2012
The University of Texas at Austin is losing a wireless communications guru to New York University and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Ted Rappaport currently is the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair of Engineering at UT, where he’s been on the faculty for nine years. He...
New York University and Polytechnic Institute of New York University Select Theodore Rappaport
By Close-Up Media via COMTEX, Mobility Techzone, March 6th, 2012
New York University and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University announced they have appointed Theodore Rappaport to lead a new initiative in wireless communications engineering and research. "Ted Rappaport is an outstanding researcher and an engineer with enormous entrepreneurial...
Robot fish can be just as convincing as the real thing
By Rose Eveleth, Smartplanet.com, March 2nd, 2012
Researchers at NYU Polytechnic University have managed to trick live fish into following a robot around. Stefano Marras and Maurizio Porfiri built their fishy robot to mimic as closely as possible the behavior of the real things, particularly in the way the robot moves its tail. Here’s how it...
Schools of fish follow the robot leader
By James Devitt, Futurity.org, March 2nd, 2012
Through a series of experiments, researchers from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) aimed to increase understanding of collective animal behavior, including learning how robots might someday steer fish away from environmental disasters. Nature is a growing source of...
Robofish becomes school teacher
www.bcs.org, March 2nd, 2012
Researchers from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have created a robotic fish that can lead a school of real fish. In a study to try to better understand collective animal behaviour, the team experimented with a robotic fish that could mimic the tail propulsion of a...
'Pied piper' robot could lead fish away from harm
By Kate Taylor, www.tgdaily.com, March 2nd, 2012
It may not look particularly appealing to the likes of you or me, but the robot fish shown above is so cool that real ones will follow its lead. Researchers from Polytechnic Institute of New York University designed their fish to mimic the tail propulsion of a real swimming fish, and tested it out...
Researchers Use Robot Fish to Lead Golden Shiner School
scitechdaily.com, March 2nd, 2012
Researchers from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) developed a bio-inspired robotic fish to mimic the tail propulsion of a swimming fish and conducted experiments at varying tail beat frequencies and flow speeds. They found that when the robot fish was placed with a school of...
Researchers Develop Novel Technique for Producing Nanofibers from Proteins
By Cameron Chai, Azom.com, March 2nd, 2012
A research team at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) has discovered a novel technique for producing nanofibers from proteins, paving the way to advance drug delivery systems for treating Alzheimer's disease, heart disorders and cancers, and help in the recreation of...
Scientific accident paves way for protein-based microprocessors
By Robert Jaques, theinquirer.net, March 1st, 2012
A METHOD for creating nanofibres could underpin the development of super-fast computer processors made using proteins. Developed by researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) the technique was discovered by accident. A chance observation made by Susheel Gunasekar, a...
