Stanford in the News
Several Stanford affiliated scientists and engineers are involved with different aspects of the latest NASA Mars 2020 mission. Among them is Marco Pavone who helped develop algorithms to optimize the landing spot on Mars. Perseverance is reached the red planet on February 18 and will spend a...
The team from Chris Gerdes’ Dynamic Design Lab are training MARTY, an all-electric, autonomous DeLorean, to use all the friction between the tire and the road to get the vehicle out of harm’s way to handle emergency maneuvers or slippery road surfaces. The MARTYkhana video shows the autonomous...
Chris Gerdes, one of the researchers featured in this PBS episode working on the next generation of self-driving automobiles, discusses some of the technological advancements of the car tracking the 9,000-year history of the automobile from origins in dog-sleds to the Model T.
Stanford freshman Dhruvik Parikh (undergraduate ’22) is among the five from Stanford University recognized in Forbes' 2019 "30 Under 30" list. Also making the list are Weave Grid's Apoorv Bhargava (MS/MBA ’17) and co-founder John Taggart (PhD candidate, management science and engineering); William...