3D printer

How to print a robot from scratch: Combining liquids, solids could lead to faster, more flexible 3D creations

April 18, 2022

Professor Robert MacCurdy has developed a new way to 3D-print liquid and solid materials together, potentially leading to more dynamic and useful products—from robots to wearable electronic devices.

icee award

A new design workflow for an integral piece of soft robotic systems

Sept. 8, 2021

Three mechanical engineering students and Professor Robert MacCurdy developed the novel workflow and published it in a paper that won the IEEE-CASE Best Application Paper Award at the 2021 CASE Conference in France.

corey neu in lab

New healthcare-related grants enable research into pandemics, rheumatoid arthritis

Dec. 3, 2020

The AB Nexus Research Collaboration Grant program announced its inaugural round of grants totaling $625,000 for novel research projects integrating expertise from the CU Anschutz and CU Boulder campuses. Three of these projects were born out of the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering.

CU Boulder and CU Anschutz

Infectious disease containment, anxiety disorder interventions among collaborative projects funded by AB Nexus grants

Nov. 20, 2020

The AB Nexus Research Collaboration Grant program announced its inaugural round of grants totaling $625,000 for novel research projects integrating expertise from the CU Anschutz and CU Boulder campuses.