Artificial muscle made of sewing thread enables new motions for soft robots
Mechanical engineers used a twisted-and-coiled actuator to generate programmable motion in a soft robot.
Mechanical engineers used a twisted-and-coiled actuator to generate programmable motion in a soft robot.
CSU researcher Phil Klotzbach pointed out that none this year have grown into hurricanes. Saharan dust has suppressed storm development in the hurricane-spawning grounds of the tropical Atlantic (Philadelphia Inquirer).
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department has entered two new partnerships to prevent mine waste disasters.
Becky Bolinger, a drought specialist at Colorado State University and the assistant state climatologist, said the lack of new snow in late spring affected the rate of melting (New York Times).
Wireless network devices maintain a connection by handing off from one cell tower to another. The data created should be used to fight coronavirus, say CSU researchers (Network World).
“To me what’s really shocking is how warm it’s been relative to average for so many weeks and months,” says Zack Labe, a climate scientist at Colorado State University (National Geographic).
CSU Atmospheric Science postdoc Zack Labe said that while he is concerned by the recent heat, he is more unnerved by its staying power (CBS News).
CSU associate professor of systems engineering Jeremy Daily has been working with student researchers on a heavy vehicle cybersecurity program called the Student CyberTruck Experience (Fleet Owner).
CSU Atmospheric Science researcher Samuel Childs explained a mostly persistent ridge of high pressure that has been over Colorado in recent months has helped deter the develop of large hail and tornadoes (CBS Denver).
Every summer, an atmospheric event propels desert dust thousands of miles across the Atlantic. This year is particularly bad, and timed terribly with Covid-19 (Wired).