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ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis posits that highly sparse, trainable subnetworks ('winning tickets') exist within all randomly initialized neural networks. However, state-of-the-art ticket-dra…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
With 35–40 million people worldwide requiring prosthetic or orthotic services, only 1 in 10 receive the care they need, primarily due to high costs. Soft robotics has emerged as a promising…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The ability to create and/or detect steganographic messages (messages hidden within images or other digital file types) is important for uses ranging from watermarking copyrighted materials…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The project consists of a robot that has the sole purpose of helping people with emotional needs, solving an issue pointed out by NIH (The National Institute of Health) with the scars that l…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The engineering design process uses repeated steps to produce the desired design. It starts by identifying a problem, researching it, brainstorming solutions, prototyping, testing, and itera…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Effective structural health monitoring (SHM) of carbon steel structures is critical, but is limited by traditional methods in efficiently identifying fine cracks. Thus, this project aims to…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
A mechanical neural network (MNN) is made of many springs connected in a repeating pattern. Through adjustment of the spring constants, a MNN can be “taught" to exhibit one or more desired r…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The ongoing shortage of caregivers has made it increasingly difficult to meet growing healthcare demands, leaving many individuals without the necessary assistance for daily tasks. The use o…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Early detection of falls is crucial as they are the leading cause of injury and death among elderly individuals. Prompt intervention is necessary to prevent serious consequences such as brok…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Waste pollution, driven by improper recycling practices, remains a pressing environmental issue that humans continually struggle to manage effectively. Building on last year's project, which…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Due to growing industries and poor methods of recycling, landfills are filled with millions of tons of wasted recyclable materials. Making recycling more accessible to communities around the…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Coral reefs are vital marine ecosystems that face mounting environmental challenges, including climate change and pollution, which contribute to coral degradation and bleaching. This project…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
AutoMates presents a novel intelligent solution for multiple intelligent agents to self-learn performing complex, hard-to-optimize, and unpredictable tasks. It does this using a) a novel ite…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients with severe motor and speech impairments often rely on eye movements and assistive technology to move and communicate. However, current smart whe…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
No-resource languages—those with minimal or no digital representation—pose unique challenges for machine translation (MT). Unlike low resource languages, which rely on limited but existent c…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The lack of research in artificial intelligence systems for parsing and understanding text in less commonly spoken languages has led to a barrier to access to state-of-the-art natural langua…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The research project addresses the problem identified at the CIDAR Sports Academy (Yaracuy, Venezuela), where wheelchair table tennis athletes waste about 25% of their training time collecti…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have demonstrated exceptional potential in task planning and optimization. However, little research has explored MAS integration across both hardware and software.…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The citrus industry in Florida has been devastated with multiple diseases - greening, canker, and blackspot - leading to tree death, orchard closure, and lost orange production. Traditional…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the first 6 hours following a building collapse, the chance of finding a survivor is approximately 60%, but drops to less than 10% by the 48th hour. This research developed a soft biomime…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Poor sleep is a major contributor to adolescent health issues, linked to poor mental health, risk-taking behaviour, and even physical health problems. Sleep issues can harm family and social…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) is a highly invasive malignant tumor with significant health risks worldwide. Following the success of deep learning models over the past decade. Some stu…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Accurate classification of galaxy morphologies from astronomical survey images is fundamental to understanding galaxy formation and evolution. Traditional manual classification methods, such…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Lithium is essential for rechargeable batteries in electric vehicles, energy storage, and electronics, driving the clean energy revolution. With global demand increasing and Earth's reserves…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Soft robotics, robots made of flexible materials, offer advantages in adaptability, and safer interactions. This study examines a pneumatically actuated soft gripper, investigating the effec…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Researching and understanding inter-tidal and wetland ecosystems is important when assessing the health of our planet both within and outside the described marine ecosystems. The substrate a…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Sargassum is a macroalgae that accumulates on beaches throughout the Caribbean. It is a problem for local economies and tourism. As it dries, it emits hydrogen sulfide, which causes a strong…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project deals with the development and construction of an autonomous robot arm with a camera system. Catching a ball using a hoop and volleying a ping pong ball were chosen as example a…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The Drone Dynamometer introduces a cost-effective real-time drone dynamometer aiming to provide reliable flight performance data while significantly reducing risks and expenses, since curren…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The field of machine learning was founded with the purpose of bridging the gap between machine and biological processing. However, as certain algorithms see more success—and more funding as…