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UA Engineers Will Create Planetary Rover from Retinal Implant Test Robot
| By Pete Brown - November 2, 2009, 11:39 am
When Wolfgang Fink, the recently appointed Edward and Maria Keonjian Distinguished Professor in Microelectronics, establishes his research lab at UA, one of his projects will be to transform a robot that tests retinal implants into a rover for autonomous planetary exploration.
Fink recently moved to UA from the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, where he and other scientists created a remote-controlled robot that can simulate the “visual” experience and capacity for independent mobility of a blind person with a visual prosthesis such as an artificial retina, which is a silicon chip implanted inside the eyeball and studded with electrodes that directly stimulate retinal nerve cells.
Few people worldwide have been implanted with retinal prostheses, which means that opportunities to test and improve the implants are limited because there is only s ...... (read more) |  | | Cyclops is an all-wheel-drive platform that could enhance the design of visual prostheses and be adapted for autonomous planetary exploration. Photo: Caltech/Wolfgang Fink, Mark Tarbell. |
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Recent News Stories Manufacturing Research Center Makes Advances in Reducing Water and Energy Use
UA News • October 29, 2009, 9:57 am
Work at the UA's Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing is leading to to advancements in reducing water and energy consumption.... (read more) | | New Minerals Institute Searches for Ways to Making Mining More Efficient and Sustainable
UA News • October 29, 2009, 9:44 am
Mary Poulton, head of the department of mining and geological engineering and director of the recently established Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources, and assistant professor Jinhong Zhang de ...... (read more) | | Students in Practice School for Sustainability Building Solar Cogeneration Plant
UA News • October 29, 2009, 9:33 am
Students in new College of Engineering Practice School for Sustainability get to work designing a solar-powered cogeneration system to produce both heat and electricity.... (read more) | | Keonjian Professor Envisages Robotic Explorers Led by Robot Commander
ScienceDaily.com • October 28, 2009, 4:21 pm
Professor Wolfgang Fink sees the day when we'll send legions of robots into space, commanded by other robots, to explore new worlds.... (read more) | | MSE Professor Shares in $14 Million Research Funding Awarded by U.S. Air Force
U.S. Air Force • October 28, 2009, 3:43 pm
Erica Corral, an assistant professor in MSE, is one of the recipients of more than $14 million in grants to scientists and engineers by the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program.... (read more) | | Solar Decathlon Team Leaders Celebrate UA’s Success
UA News • October 23, 2009, 3:30 pm
As the Solar Decathlon winds down, University of Arizona students can now celebrate a successful competition, which has garnered the team national recognition. Every step in the development of th ...... (read more) | | From Bar Codes to Biotech: TMAL Awards Honor Leaders in Management and Engineering
October 20, 2009, 3:48 pm
Teri Spencer, the co-founder, CEO and president of Ephibian, won a Shaping the Future Award at the 2009 Technology and Management Awards Luncheon (TMAL) held Oct. 16 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort &am ...... (read more) | | Lockheed Martin Funds New Engineering Lab
October 8, 2009, 11:45 am
Lockheed Martin will provide UA with $96,100 to partially fund the creation of the Lockheed Martin Materials Testing Laboratory in the College of Engineering.
Lockheed Martin representatives presente ...... (read more) | | Keonjian Distinguished Professorship Honors Life and Work of "Father of Microelectronics"
October 6, 2009, 1:24 pm
Edward Keonjian, the “father of microelectronics,” would have been 100 years old on Aug. 14, 2009.
To mark his centennial, the College of Engineering has announced the establishment of th ...... (read more) | | Broadening the Geosciences in Southern Arizona
October 2, 2009, 9:21 am
The National Science Foundation has awarded $155,000 to a group of engineers and geoscientists to launch an outreach program designed to increase the number of underrepresented students seeking geosci ...... (read more) | |
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