Tag: Robert D. Howe

  • Science & Tech

    Robot hands gain a gentler touch

    Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed an inexpensive tactile sensor for robotic hands that is sensitive enough to turn a brute machine into a dexterous manipulator.

  • Health

    Video game technology may help surgeons operate on beating hearts

    Surgery has been done inside some adults’ hearts while the heart is still beating, avoiding the need to open the chest, stop the heart and put patients on cardiopulmonary bypass.…

  • Campus & Community

    Engineering Idol

    The winner of this year’s ES100-100hf senior engineering design project course competition aimed straight for the heart by recording an electrical “ballad.” The runners-up (a tie for second), meanwhile, worked…