If any factory worker could program low-cost robots, then more factories could actually use robotics to increase worker productivity. […]

On the 27th floor of the Salesforce Tower on the historic Monument Circle in Indianapolis, the Indy 5G Summit highlighted the opportunities 5G technologies represent and forged a collaborative effort to ensure the city and state will be at the center of this emerging frontier. […]

A tiny crack in a nuclear reactor, skyscraper, bridge or dam can cause catastrophic consequences. The Minneapolis bridge collapse, which killed 13 people in 2007, is just one example of what can happen when structural integrity is compromised. […]

Shortly after the start of the new year, Americans around the nation will start returning to polling stations to vote in presidential primaries. How confident they feel in the voting process could depend on this thing called secure multiparty computation. […]

Sharing a streaming video or watching the big game on a single electronic device can lead to a big fight: whose data plan is going to be used up for the event? Purdue University researchers have come up with technology that could open a new door for video streaming. […]

What if drones and self-driving cars had the tingling “spidey senses” of Spider-Man? […]

Purdue University’s College of Agriculture is partnering with Gerrish Farms to host the fourth annual agBOT Challenge, a three-day event May 16-18. […]

Purdue University Motorsports and the evGrand Prix group will host autonomous kart racing, as well as manned kart racing for high school and college teams from across the U.S. at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The races will occur Tuesday (May 14) and Wednesday (May 15). […]

What can fly like a bird and hover like an insect? Your friendly neighborhood hummingbirds. If drones had this combo, they would be able to maneuver better through collapsed buildings and other cluttered spaces to find trapped victims. […]

What if future wars were fought using only computers and autonomous systems? […]

Precise measurements are critical to the discovery, development and usage of medications. Major financial and scientific decisions within pharmaceutical companies are informed by the outcomes of chemical and biological analyses. Even slight measurement variations can add risk and uncertainty in these high-stakes decisions. […]

In less than a month, Helio Castroneves, Tony Kanaan, Scott Dixon and last year’s champ, Will Power, will look to add to their Borg-Warner trophy cases by winning the Indianapolis 500. […]

Rescue teams descended on the destruction left by Hurricane Michael in October, frantically searching for survivors. But a week later, more than 1,000 people were still accounted for, leaving families to wait and hope. […]

Large flooding across Nebraska this year created a desperate need for relief efforts, with various calls for help and supplies coming in from all across the 77,000-square-mile state. […]

A video on social media shows a high-ranking U.S. legislator declaring his support for an overwhelming tax increase. You react accordingly because the video looks like him and sounds like him, so certainly it has be him. […]

'They got all of it' are the reassuring words people hope to hear following cancer surgery, but a growing understanding of the science of how cancer spreads, and metastasizes, is suggesting that not only is this almost never true but — and here is the surprising part — it might be better to try to contain the cancer than to eliminate it. […]

Computers and artificial intelligence continue to usher in major changes in the way people shop. It is relatively easy to train a robot’s brain to create a shopping list, but what about ensuring that the robotic shopper can easily tell the difference between the thousands of products in the store? […]

Some of the key mottos for Purdue Polytechnic High School Indianapolis are “learn through STEM and design thinking immersion,” “personalized learning,” and “learn by doing.&rdquo […]

Apple co-founder and computer pioneer Steve Wozniak will speak at Purdue’s Elliott Hall of Music on Wednesday (April 17). […]

What if the brain could detect its own disease? Researchers have been trying to create a material that “thinks” like the brain does, which would be more sensitive to early signs of neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s. Thinking is a long way off, but Purdue University and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have engineered a new material that can at least “listen.&rdquo […]

The world’s elderly population is booming. The number of older people — those age 60 years or older — is expected to more than double by 2050 and is growing faster than all younger age groups across the globe. […]

Apple co-founder and computer pioneer Steve Wozniak will speak at Purdue University on April 17. […]

Adranos Inc., a Purdue University-affiliated company developing a high-performance, solid propellant for long-range missile and space launch systems, has won the Army’s inaugural xTechSearch competition, besting more than 350 companies in the months long competition. […]

The worlds of STEM and policy can be very different in areas including environmental instability, global health, digital infrastructures and security. So, what will it take to bring a stronger voice of STEM expertise into global policy discussions and implementations? […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently warned that various medical devices made by the company Medtronic, such as implanted cardiac defibrillators, are vulnerable to cyberattack. This is because a hacker could easily gain wireless access to the equipment’s settings and change them. […]

Government, industry, schools, banks, health care organizations, powerplants … who doesn’t have to worry about cybersecurity threats? […]

Many internal components used in today’s computers reach temperatures that are hot enough to cook a Thanksgiving meal. The heat produced by the computations can easily burn human skin and tissue – and much of the heat is simply wasted energy, a byproduct of the computer’s internal functions. […]

Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the largest management and technology consulting companies in the U.S., has established space in Purdue@WestGate and is collaborating with Purdue University to develop solutions to address some of the country’s key national security challenges. […]

Artificial intelligence systems based on deep learning are changing the electronic devices that surround us. […]

Have you ever thought about what it’d be like to engage in a normal conversation about the weather or politics … with a robot? Science is on its way to transforming this thought into a reality, but does this novel concept fall into the category of exciting, terrifying or both? […]

A fascination with movie technology that showed robots perform self-repair through a liquid formula inspired a Purdue University professor to make his own discoveries – which are now helping to lead the way for advancements in self-powering devices such as consumer electronics and defense innovations. […]

Cybercriminals can run, but they cannot hide from their digital fingerprints. […]

Ask any smart virtual assistant to tell you a joke and the response is, well, lackluster. A flat, robotic voice drones out some simplistic humor. No laughter, no tone and no concern if you are even listening. […]

Purdue University’s College of Agriculture is partnering with Gerrish Farms to host the agBOT Challenge 2019, a three-day event May 16-18. The event includes the NextGen Expo, an interactive STEM event, and the agBot competition, an international showcase and competition of agtech unmanned machine innovations. […]

You might have a music video – and a Purdue University professor – to thank for making a future trip to see the doctor much easier. […]

Businesses of the past operated like a rookie playing darts, throwing something and hoping it sticks. […]

A new design in firefighting robots, already successfully tested in the field, could make firefighters’ jobs less dangerous and address one of the biggest challenges with firefighting robots – the ability to maneuver in a burning structure. […]

A Purdue University-based cybersecurity startup may soon help the U.S. Air Force monitor and track high-value and sensitive assets. […]

It’s no secret that human trafficking is a global problem that claims thousands of victims, but many people don’t know how prevalent this crisis is in their own backyard. Despite efforts to combat it, cases of human trafficking are actually on the rise in Indiana, with 31 percent of the trafficked victims being minors. […]

The mind is beautiful and complicated, and humanity continues to seek understanding, especially when it comes to aspects of mental health. […]

Are you wondering what happens to your favorite NFL players’ mind when they take a hit to the head during this weekend’s Super Bowl? Does that same concern extend to your kids on the field? […]

'God' was protecting part of the Purdue computer system from hackers in the early 1990s. […]

The National Quantum Initiative Act was signed into law by Congress last year to advance coordinated research efforts in quantum information science – the study of the smallest particles and how they can be manipulated - to secure the nation’s preeminence in the tech economy and national security. Why? Quantum computing has the potential to be a game-changer in everyday life. […]

Idling in a long highway line of slowed or stopped traffic on a busy highway can be more than an inconvenience for drivers and highway safety officers. […]

In an increasingly automated world, what if AI tools are harmful to poor people? They just might be. […]

Purdue University researchers in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are developing integrative language and vision software that may enable an autonomous robot to interact with people in different environments and accomplish navigational goals. […]

New 'classification models' sense how well humans trust intelligent machines they collaborate with, a step toward improving the quality of interactions and teamwork. […]

Personal data collection, machine learning and artificial intelligence are encroaching in our lives at a pace that many of us find unsettling, if not downright scary. Not to mention that many of us can't tell the difference in what these terms mean. […]

A Purdue University doctoral candidate is developing an advertisement and audience analysis system that will enable advertisers to track specific commercials’ outreach and audience ratings by analyzing short video clips and demographic surveys sent directly from viewers’ smartphones. […]

Suresh V. Garimella, who has led four straight record years for Purdue University research funding, will be appointed to the National Science Board. […]