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MSU, a world leader in water research, is looking to address global water issues by developing a graduate training program to create a highly competent workforce with the broad technological, scientific and cultural skills needed to resolve current and future water challenges. The program is being developed with the help of a $3 million National …

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Xiaobo Tan MSU Foundation Professor Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan State University (MSU) Talk Title:Sea lamprey, e-skin, and robotic fish: Mechatronic solutions to invasive species control More information

SML was awarded a new patent on APPARATUS WITH A CONTROLLABLE SURFACE FOR UNDERWATER BOUNDARY FLOW.

Some see soft robots helping declining populations of pollinators do their jobs, or sifting through wreckage in the wake of a building collapse, or even performing simple, practical tasks in tight spaces; others see them traveling the oceans or traversing the insides of our bodies to scope out medical red flags. Some, like Robert Katzschmann, an …

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The SML Lab’s soft snake robot paper was selected as a Best Paper finalist at 2020 IEEE’s RobotSoft Conference. Congratulations! A Novel Pneumatic Soft Snake Robot Using Traveling-Wave Locomotion in Constrained EnvironmentsXinda Qi, Hongyang Shi, Thassyo Pinto, Xiaobo Tan Check out the Best Paper awards here: https://www.robosoft2020.org/#contribute

Picture: Dr. Shaunak D. Bopardikar (left) and Dr. Xiaobo Tan (right) received a new NSF grant Dr. Shaunak D. Bopardikar, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dr. Xiaobo Tan, Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a three-year, $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Congratulations! Read more here: https://ece.msu.edu/news/bopardikar-and-tan-received-nsf-grant An abstract of the project …

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Original article here: https://www.egr.msu.edu/news/2020/08/11/advancing-electrical-engineering Xiaobo Tan has been named the Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering in the Michigan State University College of Engineering. Tan is an MSU Foundation Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an adjunct professor of Mechanical Engineering. He leads MSU’s Smart Microsystems Lab, known for its vibrant activities in underwater …

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Congratulations to Osama Ennasr, who has successfully completed his PhD study at Michigan State. His dissertation was titled “Gliding Robotic Fish: Design, Collaborative Estimation, and Application to Underwater Sensing”. He is joining the Geospatial Research Laboratory at the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center.