2023-2024 Report

Tag: Robotics

  • Nebraska earns record nine CAREER awards

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    A record nine Husker researchers earned National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program awards in 2024, for a total of $6.2 million in CAREER funding. This milestone places the University of Nebraska-Lincoln among the nation’s most successful institutions in earning awards through this prestigious program for rising scholars. Nebraska was one of only 25…

  • Surgical robot takes journey to outer space

    Surgical robot takes journey to outer space

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    Nebraska engineer Shane Farritor makes little robots.   It’s not that he and his team aren’t thinking big. In fact, their 2-pound robotic surgical arm, MIRA, proved its mettle in outer space this year, an unlikely journey for its 1-ton cousins.   MIRA — Miniaturized in vivo Robotic Assistant — also became the only small robotic-assisted surgical…