February 4, 2012

Open-Source Surgical Robot Fuels University Research


February 3, 2012

Evening With Industry Career Fair

Evening With Industry (EWI) is a unique event for both students and employers. It consists of two components: a career fair during the day and an awards banquet in the evening. The awards banquet features a keynote speaker and honors outstanding female students from each of the engineering departments. Twenty-eight companies will be in attendance,…


February 2, 2012

Raven II in the Media

After a successful open house demonstration of the Raven II surgical robots, the project has generated several interesting articles and videos in the media. Eight surgical robots have been built under the Raven II project and will provide the first open-source platform to develop the future of surgical robotics. After a round of final tests,…


February 1, 2012

Prosthetic sensor adds diagnostic ‘feeling’ to artificial limbs


January 7, 2012

EE Undergrad Wins SWE Outstanding Female Award

EE Undergrad, Xuejiao (Snow) Yang has been honored with the UW Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Outstanding Female Award. Awardees are selected for going above and beyond what is expected in one or more of the following areas: Integrity Departmental involvement Support for other students via mentoring or tutoring Excellence in coursework and/or research Promotion…


January 6, 2012

Adrian KC Lee Wins AFOSR YIP Award

Professor Adrian KC Lee of UW’s Speech & Hearing Sciences, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, just received a prestigious Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Award. This Award is for new researchers who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. Lee’s research…


January 5, 2012

Surgical robots to provide open-source platform for medical robotics research


January 4, 2012

Alumni Accept Academic Positions

Congratulations to two of our former PhD students who have recently accepted academic positions! Dr. Kuang-Wei Cheng has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. Kuang-Wei completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering at UW in 2009. Since then, he has been working as a…


January 3, 2012

Open House for the Raven II Surgical Robotics Platform

Friday, January 13th, 2012 Room B011 (LB level), Electrical Engineering Building Press: 10am – 11am General Public: 11am – 3pm The UW Biorobotics Lab, in collaboration with the Human Bionics Lab at U.C. Santa Cruz wishes to introduce you to the eight surgical robots built under the Raven II project. These robots will be located…


January 2, 2012

Microsoft developing electronic contact lens to monitor blood sugar



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