With the return to campus and in-person learning in 2021, we experienced more changes and different routines from pre-pandemic times. Stanford researchers continue to make advancements in science and technology which include some notable achievements, including the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, a MacArthur "genius" grant and a Rhodes Scholarship, among others.
Forced labor, modern slavery and human trafficking are endemic issues in global supply chains. Re:Structure Lab, a new project involving researchers from Stanford, Simon Fraser University and Yale, examines the ways in which global supply chains can be restructured to eliminate human rights abuses out from labor.
Researchers from the Stanford Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab have developed a robotic hand capable of handling a wide variety of items. The multi-jointed fingers topped with gecko-inspired adhesives, creates a strong hold via microscopic flaps. Below the adhesives, finger pads, a collapsible rib structure, ensures equal forces on the adhesive pads.
The 2022 Forbes' "30 Under 30" features two current Stanford students and eight recent alumni developing energy and sustainability-related technologies--the most Stanford students and alumni in cleantech since Forbes started its list 10 years ago.
A team of researchers from Stanford's Autonomous Systems Lab, MIT and Lacuna has proposed a road pricing approach that could improve economic equity while reducing congestion. The key idea: Refund tolls in a way that redistributes some of the money from rich to poor and ensures all drivers are as well off or better than they were before.
This year's surge of carbon dioxide emissions to close to pre-pandemic levels is linked to increased consumption of coal and natural gas for power plants and industry--even as transportation emissions remain down and renewable energy use ramps up
Electrical engineer Priyanka Raina explains how we’re moving toward faster, more efficient computer chips for every task in this episode of The Future of Everything.
The second in a planned series of studies, this AI100 Study Report, comes five years after the initial report. The study is a combination of two key features: it is written by a Study Panel of core multi-disciplinary researchers and it is a longitudinal study with planned reports published once every five years.
A research study by the Stanford Graduate School Business on the motorcycle industry found that the longer a company has served a particular market, the more challenging change will be. While specialization can lead to popularity and profits, long lasting specialization and changing consumer tastes, can be fatal especially with competitors ready to address these new trends.
An international team of experts propose that autonomous systems of all kinds from self-driving cars, care-bots and other robots should learn from the aviation industry by implementing a black box to analyze accidents when they occur and create an audit trail.
