A team from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign competed in the A2RL Drone Racing Competition, where drones race autonomously at over 110 mph with zero ...

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 ...

The work described in the 2005 PADS paper was a springboard towards further achievements. Written by Jenny Applequist Last month, David M. Nicol received a “Test of Time” award at the 39th ACM SIGSIM ...

Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering have introduced a new framework for training autonomous robots using video demonstrations. Their innovation makes data collection more accessible ...

Varun Chandrasekaran, an Illinois Grainger professor of electrical & computer engineering, is among a team of researchers who have received a $5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research ...

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

ECE professor Radhika Mittal has received a prestigious NSF CAREER award granted to early career researchers. She aims to improve 5G cellular connectivity by allocating network resources more ...

The University of Illinois has received an $8.3 million grant to develop foundational computing technologies for next-generation autonomous systems for defense and commercial applications. The ...

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.

Four faculty members from the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering have received a total of $475,000 in grants to support projects through the Amazon-Illinois Center on Interactive Conversational ...

A former CSl and Illinois ECE alumnus, Arvind Krishna (MS ’87, PhD ’91), has been elected as Chief Executive Officer of IBM, effective April 6, 2020. Krishna is regarded as an elite and distinguished ...

Octopus arms coordinate nearly infinite degrees of freedom to perform complex movements such as reaching, grasping, fetching, crawling, and swimming. How these animals achieve such a wide range of ...