Researcher with drone.

Augmented reality enhances robot collaboration

March 15, 2018

ATLAS IRON Lab researchers were awarded best paper and runner-up best paper at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction for developing technologies that use augmented reality to enhance drone operation.

Two smiling female participants wave from behind their computers

T9Hacks continues to grow and thrive

Feb. 16, 2018

Creative coding marathon attracts a majority of women and first-time hackers.

Carolyn Castanon

My American Journey: Website chronicles Latina student’s difficult path to graduation

Dec. 18, 2017

Carolyn Castanon was a happy teenager: an A student who loved hanging out with her little sister and parents in their Colorado Springs home and playing tennis with her friends. Then, two weeks before her 15th birthday, her world broke.

HyunJoo Oh with paper mechatronics

Paper robots teach kids basic engineering principles

Sept. 23, 2017

NSF grant supports research aimed at cultivating a passion for STEM fields among young children.

TAM graduate Meredith Richter

Meet one of the BS CTD program’s first grads

June 1, 2017

Meridith Richter's journey from majoring in creative writing, to computer science and finally to the ATLAS Institute’s Technology, Arts and Media program couldn't have been predicted.

Lila Finch working on sculpture

Graduate student project illuminates science for youth

May 24, 2017

In the lobby of the Roser ATLAS Building, a nine-foot illuminated tree sculpture is lending artistic form to scientific function.

Photo of Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas

Technology is Going to the Dogs

May 10, 2017

Can technology work for dogs? A recent visitor to the ATLAS Laboratory for Playful Computation helped answer this question in a public workshop

Photo of Danny Rankin

Danny Rankin: Hacker, Farmer, Technologist, Designer

May 1, 2017

“He doesn’t fit any single box. Everyone in ATLAS knows and respects Danny. He embodies so much of who we are as an interdisciplinary institute.”

Photo of Hyunjoo Oh

ATLAS Doctoral Student Chosen as Member of Autodesk’s Pier 9 Artists in Residence Program

March 14, 2017

Hyunjoo Oh is one of 22 successful applicants from across the country and world to be selected for the prestigious program

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