Prehensile Technologies, a company developing robotic assistive technology devices, is developing RoboTable, a robotic over-the-bed table, to help veterans and others with disabilities or mobility impairments better use their laptop computers and mobile devices while restricted to bed, allowing them to be more independent and remain productive with work or school.

Interactions between light and matter are a fundamental unit of modern physics, but recently researchers have started to look beyond the standard textbook interactions.

Researchers are proposing the use of stochastic units to perform precise arithmetic calculations like digital computers, but invertibly. The new probabilistic spin logic, or PSL, system is made up of building-block units called p-bits.

Dr. Vaneet Aggarwal's CLAN Labs received a VURI award from AT&T Labs in June. AT&T's Virtual University Research Initiative (VURI) program facilitates collaborations between AT&T researchers and universities.

A new medical-diagnostic device made out of paper detects biomarkers and identifies diseases by performing electrochemical analyses - powered only by the user’s touch - and reads out the color-coded test results, making it easy for non-experts to understand.

A Purdue doctoral student has founded a company to provide engineering education tools and novel devices to students and hobbyists to encourage a more hands-on learning experience.

A paper submission by a group of students led by Purdue’s Dr. Rusi Taleyarkhan, Professor in the School of Nuclear Engineering, was selected as the winner in the student category at the ICONE-25 Conference in Shanghai, China.

When Anderson Smith and his team decided to enter this year's Student Soybean Product Innovation Competition, they started by reviewing the attributes of the past winning entries. They concluded that the three main winning trends were products that addressed social, political, and environmental needs.

The National Academy of Engineering has identified 14 "grand challenges" for the 21st century, and Purdue graduate Kim Reppa (BS '16 EEE) has been given the green light and financial backing to explore ways to systematically develop solutions to them.