mechatronics/robotics – Page 2 – Mechanical Engineering

Professor Noel Perkins’ micro-sensor a game changer
02/16/2016

Perkins’ work in micro-sensor technology could change the way you understand your golf swing, free throw or fly-fishing technique

Recent Design Projects Featured in Videos
01/22/2010

Check out these recent videos of what our design students have done! Fall 2009: ME250 taught by Assistant Professor John Hart Slotbots Competition Winter 2008: ME 350 taught by […]

Mobile Robotics Lab Teams Earn “Best in Show” and “Technology Innovation” Awards
12/04/2007

Two teams from MEs Mobile Robotics Laboratory walked away from a recent conference, awards in hand. The Mobile Robotics Lab’s Personal Odometry System (POS) earned the “best in show” designation […]

Mechatronics Education in Mechanical Engineering
02/01/2010

Low-cost sensors, actuators, electronics and computer technology have helped shift the design of high-tech and household products from the purely mechanical domain only a few decades ago to the multidisciplinary […]

U-M chosen to host 4th annual CIRP Conference
12/01/2011

Come one, come all to the 4th CIRP Conference on Assembly Technologies and Systems! Held May 21-23, 2012 at the University of Michigan. Keynote speakers include Prof. Daniel Whitney from MIT and the conference theme is responsible customer-driven assembly

Mechanical Engineering start-up FlexDex Surgical gets Media Coverage
07/21/2016

FlexDex Surgical, an innovative medical device company founded by Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Shorya Awtar and Medical School Professor James Geiger, has received coverage from several media outlets

PSDL Students Take Home Two Best Paper Awards from ASME Conferences
10/14/2013

Members of Prof. Shorya Awtar’s research group, the Precision Systems Design Lab (PSDL), won two Best Paper Awards at the ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC)

ME Project-Based Design/Manufacturing Class Series Thrives
03/14/2016

ME’s undergrad curriculum has a unique team-based, Design-Build-Test spine of required classes. In Design and Manufacturing I, II and III (ME250, 350 and 450 respectively), sophomores, juniors and seniors turn concepts into real, working engineered system

Mini aircraft navigation sensors could give athletes new data
12/15/2010

A technology developed for fly fishing is expanding to baseball and other sports

PSDL Start-up FlexDex Surgical reaches key milestones
06/09/2015

FlexDex™ is a platform technology that provides enhanced dexterity, intuitive control, and natural force feedback in minimally invasive surgery.