Robotics & Automation
PHAS (Personalized Hands-free Assistive System) is a modular eye-gaze assistive mobility platform designed to restore independent mobility for individuals with severe motor impairments, including quadriplegia, motor neuron disease (MND), ALS, muscular dystrophy, and other neuromuscular disorders.
Millions of people worldwide are unable to operate conventional powered wheelchair controls because they lack reliable hand or arm movement.
Existing simulation frameworks struggle to comprehensively address the four autonomy-oriented requirements: (i) dynamical fidelity, (ii) photorealistic rendering, (iii) context-relevant scenario orchestration, and (iv) real-time performance. Maximizing one constraint traditionally breaks one or more of others, forcing unwanted compromises on robotics engineers. We must harness the true potential of digital twins by fusing data, physics,
Developing autonomous robots for unstructured environments is a slow, expensive, and highly iterative process. Engineers must evaluate countless combinations of perception, planning, and control algorithms under varying environmental conditions, making validation difficult to scale. Traditional testing workflows rely heavily on manual setup, fragmented software tools, and time-consuming field trials, resulting in longer development cycles,
Autonomous robots are transforming industries by automating complex tasks, improving productivity, and enhancing safety. However, developing reliable robots remains challenging because systems trained in simulation often perform poorly when deployed in the real world. Differences in lighting, weather, environmental complexity, etc. create a significant simulation-to-reality (sim2real) gap,
Autonomous vehicle innovation is often constrained by proprietary hardware, limited reproducibility, and research platforms designed around a single vehicle architecture. Nigel overcomes these limitations by introducing the first known open-hardware, open-software autonomous vehicle platform that combines comprehensive autonomy capabilities with re-configurable mechatronic redundancy in a compact 1:14 form factor.
This project introduces a tactile tic-tac-toe game that can be played without relying on sight or voice, making it accessible to blind, deafblind, and sighted children alike.
We've built a working prototype based on our patented technology. It uses only 2 stepper motors to efficiently control 9 cells, while conventional approaches typically require one actuator per cell.
Drone-Deployed Visibility Obstruction System for Law Enforcement (Patent Pending)
High-speed vehicle pursuits remain one of the most dangerous situations encountered by law enforcement, frequently resulting in injuries or fatalities involving officers, suspects, bystanders, and property. Current pursuit intervention methods—including spike strips, vehicle contact maneuvers, roadblocks, and tire-deflation devices,
Robotics and Automation are a design of machines that assist humans in a variety of fields (https://contest.techbriefs.com/contest-rules) for the application of technology, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, to automate tasks that are inefficient, difficult, or impossible for humans to perform.
To revolutionize the local defense and ensure a comfort zone for all,
Automation has become the driving force behind modern manufacturing by improving productivity, consistency, and operational efficiency. While additive manufacturing has revolutionized rapid prototyping and customized production, the printing process still depends heavily on manual decision-making. Users are required to prepare the model, optimize printing parameters, monitor the print continuously, and respond to failures.
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