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Mar 20

Improved muscle mapping could aid neurological treatment Opens in new window

Carnegie Mellon researchers are using high-density surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) with spatial filters and ultrasound to reduce crosstalk and enhance muscle activity localization. This approach aims to achieve precise mapping of muscle activity, particularly in complex structures like the forearm.

Mar 18

Could reconfigurable metastructures be the holy grail of physical intelligence?

New algorithm enables designers to create compliant metastructures with six degrees of freedom and tunable stiffness for robots and exos.

Mar 14

CyLab researchers present at ACM CHI 2025 Opens in new window

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute researchers will present nine papers and teach one course at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025).

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