A robot walks into a bar and unracks a wine bottle. “We’re interested in designing frameworks and algorithms that will enable ...

The initiative will be funded with an award of $1.5 million per year until 2026 with the option to extend for an additional two years.

Can an AI algorithm learn the rules of Western music theory without any prior knowledge of music? And can it express them in a simple form that humans can understand?

Concrete is the most popular building material in the world, and we use between 10 and 30 billion tons each year. But the price of that progress is a cost to the environment: Cement, an essential ...

Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A ...

Milton Feng has been working with Foxconn Interconnect Technologies (FIT) on a series of Center for Networked Intelligent Components and Environments (C-NICE) research projects on high-speed signal ...

Olgica Milenkovic’s group has been developing machine learning approaches that can tell revealing new stories about biological phenomena—but her work has very old roots. Written by Olgica Milenkovic’s ...

Eric Chitambar and Jacob Covey Electrical & computer engineering professor Eric Chitambar and physics professor Jacob Covey are bringing their quantum knowhow to InterQnet, a three-year initiative to ...

In recent years, hardware accelerators have increasingly been used to improve system performance and energy efficiency by doing specialized tasks that would otherwise be done less efficiently by CPUs.

Lara Waldrop, Illinois ECE Assistant Professor and Y. T. Lo Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected by NASA to develop a Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) Science Mission of ...

The PADS Test of Time award is given to past PADS papers judged to have had a significant long-term impact on the field of discrete-event simulation. Nicol’s winning paper, entitled “RINSE: The ...