The Insider: Deep Tech Partners Edition—April 2025
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Sustainable spinouts: innovation in action
Coloradan Magazine—CU Boulder’s researchers are bringing innovations out of their labs and into companies that have real-world impact. The university is a national leader and spinout powerhouse, launching 35 companies in fiscal year 2024 and over 100 since 2016, according to Bryn Rees, associate vice chancellor for innovation and partnerships.
Richard Noble bridges the gap between research and industry
Celebrated professor and prolific inventor Richard Noble reflects on decades of teaching and discovery and embarks on a new path to commercialization of a game-changing technology.
CU Startups and Technologies in the News
Xiao earns prestigious membership in the National Academy of Inventors
CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—Jianliang Xiao is a “mechanics of materials” expert launching innovations in soft materials and flexible electronics. His work recently earned him an exclusive spot amongst some of the most successful academic inventors in the world.
Faculty Fellows program boosts societal impact
With a foundation of education and specialized training augmented by years of hands-on experience leading a classroom, lab or studio in their area of expertise, faculty from universities like CU Boulder are critical to solving society’s toughest challenges and cultivating the next generation of thinkers and problem-solvers.
Artimus Robotics wins UK ARIA award to accelerate the development of dexterous robotic hardware
PR Newswire—Artimus Robotics, a CU Boulder startup and leader in artificial muscle technology, announced £1.5M funding from the UK government's Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA). This contract will enable crucial advancements in Artimus Robotics' core soft actuation technology and support deploying this technology into dexterous manipulators in collaboration with the University of Bristol.
CU Engineering announces inaugural Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fellows
CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—The University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) has announced the recipients of its inaugural class of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) Fellows, a new program designed to support faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students in advancing cutting-edge research with commercial potential. The fellowships are supported by the CEAS I&E initiative and Venture Partners at CU Boulder.
Aircrafts of the future: Boosting aerodynamic performance by engineered surface vibrations
CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—As the principal investigator of a $7.5 million, five-year Department of Defense Office of Naval Research (ONR) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), Hussein is leading an effort to reshape the fundamental character of fluid-structure interactions to reduce drag on high-speed aerospace vehicles—the focus of the project.
From research to impact: Massimo Ruzzene
CEO Magazine—Research is more than just a group of scholars furrowing away behind closed doors in universities around the globe, and Massimo Ruzzene of all people knows that. As the Senior Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), he sees research as a broad arc that moves from initial findings to real-world applications.
