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As the population ages, robots are poised to offer a helping hand, a leg up, and a pep for your step.

How a spinning device shrinks blood clots in the brain

Three Stanford faculty members have earned one of engineering's highest professional distinctions.

A new device uses focused sound cues to keep users grounded amid digital distractions.

A new study finds that smartphones can reliably monitor treatments for neuromuscular diseases

Tips for creativity, honed over five decades of innovation on the Farm.

Functional prosthetics date back further than you might think. Today, Stanford researchers are building on this legacy with wearable robotics that rapidly adapt to each user.

Researchers at Stanford have developed a new technology for removing blood clots that is more than twice as effective as current techniques.

Stanford mechanical engineer Renee Zhao is developing new devices to treat disease – like a tiny robot that can swim through the vascular system to shrink blood clots in the brain.

Allison Okamura, a science fellow from Hoover’s Technology Policy Accelerator, is working on a new generation of robots that can help care for people in their homes as they get old

Goodson will begin his tenure on April 1.

A mechanical engineer discusses her recent advances in robotic surgery, including millimeter-scale robots that travel through the bloodstream to deliver treatment.

Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed a lightweight, comfortable knit sleeve that uses pressure-based haptics to simulate touch, opening up new possibilities for weara

How soft robotics and teleoperation could improve mobility and recovery in patients.

Stanford Engineering faculty are building on our deep robotics history and creating advanced and intelligent robots with far-reaching capabilities.

Stanford engineers are testing foods using an approach that combines a three-dimensional mechanical technique and AI to mimic our sensory experience.

A new study of a blind student’s experience reveals which accessibility tools can improve learning – and what gaps remain.

Two new biology lab tools will help researchers quickly turn out scores of uniformly sized tissue samples to study many therapies at once.

One of the foremost experts on experimental methods in the thermal sciences, Moffat is remembered for insights related to the cooling of gas turbines and electronic systems and for

Product design major David Durand’s one-of-a-kind class ring incorporates campus landmarks from his time at Stanford, including the twisted column of the Meyer Green sculpture affe