Can an AI algorithm learn the rules of Western music theory without any prior knowledge of music? And can it express them in a simple form that humans can understand? According to Lav Varshney, ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Meta, and concrete supplier, Ozinga, partnered on discovering better concrete formulas using AI. Written by Kim Gudeman, CSL The ...

The Intelligent Robotics Lab (IRL) kicked off in 2015; in 2018, IRL was expanded and rebranded as the Center for Autonomy. It is dedicated to working on autonomous systems that can function both ...

Nam Sung Kim has been recognized throughout the year for both his research and his prowess. These include both a Best Paper Award and Best Paper Honorable Mention from the IEEE and a Distinguished ...

Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A ...

Olgica Milenkovic’s group has been developing machine learning approaches that can tell revealing new stories about biological phenomena—but her work has very old roots. Written by Olgica Milenkovic’s ...

Electrical & computer engineering professor Eric Chitambar and physics professor Jacob Covey are bringing their quantum knowhow to InterQnet, a three-year initiative to demonstrate that quantum ...

Octopus arms coordinate nearly infinite degrees of freedom to perform complex movements such as reaching, grasping, fetching, crawling, and swimming. How these animals achieve such a wide range of ...

We use the cloud every day: Google drive, Microsoft Azure, OneDrive, Box. It is what allows us to access our information from anywhere, at any time. Even if your phone finally decides to break for ...

In its eighth decade, CSL continues to push boundaries and expand into new areas, continually developing new technologies that solve problems in critical domains that range from national defense to ...

Professor Milton Feng at The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been working with Foxconn Interconnect Technologies on a series of Networked Intelligent ...

ECE professor Radhika Mittal has received a prestigious NSF CAREER award granted to early career researchers. She aims to improve 5G cellular connectivity by allocating network resources more ...