Every step you take carries valuable information about your health. The way your knees bend, your hips rotate, and your feet strike the ground can reveal whether you’re performing at your athletic peak, recovering from an injury, or even de…
Next generation materials discovery lies at the intersection of agentic AI, computational design, and physical fabrication. To facilitate this connection, the Materials Innovation Cloud Lab (MICL) at Carnegie Mellon University is moving tow…
Carnegie Mellon’s Safety21 is helping Pennsylvania grow and retain a skilled workforce that will adapt to forthcoming advanced and autonomous vehicle technologies. As a U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) National University Transport…
Semiconductors such as silicon are the cornerstone of today’s essential technologies; however, the variety of materials available to power devices is limited. While metal oxides are durable, only a small subset is semiconducting as they are…
Ride-hailing has become a routine part of urban life in the United States, but its broader economic impacts have been difficult to measure. As Uber and Lyft expanded across hundreds of cities over the past decade, they promised more flexibl…
Concert stages may look effortless when the curtain rises, but backstage they are giant mechanical systems filled with moving parts, tight timelines, and constant problem-solving. At Carnegie Mellon University, students are learning how to
For decades, monitoring cardiovascular health has required some combination of cuffs, sticky electrodes, wearable sensors, and frequent doctor visits. A new experimental system suggests the future of heart monitoring may look less like a ho…
New research proposes taxation as a mitigation strategy for the social, economic, and environmental costs of AI. AI is embedded in everyday technologies at low or no cost to most users, but it isn’t free. As AI proliferates, so do its deman…
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2024 outlines federal priorities for conserving and developing U.S. water resources and infrastructure. One growing priority is ensuring that water treatment systems can remove per- and polyfluo…
When visiting a theme park, guests don’t think about what made their favorite character blink or smile, they just feel the magic of their favorite story coming to life. That’s by design. As an Imagineer at Walt Disney World, Lori Kipp (Mech…
More than 100 years ago, Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Technical Schools to provide practical, technical education to workers in Pittsburgh, many of whom worked in steel mills and other manufacturing operations. While that school is
More than 100 years ago, Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Technical Schools to provide practical, technical education to workers in Pittsburgh, many of whom worked in steel mills and other manufacturing operations. While that school is