Robotics and Intelligent Machines
First Award
Skin cancer is the most prevalent cancer worldwide with 8 million incidences and 120,000 annual deaths. Visual inspection has a 40% misdiagnosis rate, causing treatment delays leading to inc…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Misinformation is widespread on the internet, and one of the most pervasive ways this presents itself to adolescents is in the form of images manipulated on social media. Teens post pictures…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Thomas Jefferson once said: 'The olive tree is surely the richest gift of heaven.' However, despite their economic significance, olive crops remain vulnerable to diseases, resulting in farme…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
It is estimated that by 2050, an alarming 33 billion tons of plastic waste will be on the Earth, overshadowing the Empire State Building by 105,000 times. Since 1960, the recycling rate has…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This research proposes Scan-Drop as an aerial integrated response during the flood search and rescue missions. This integrated response provides emergency support through proactive observati…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This study investigated the hypothesis that visual stimuli can significantly influence olfactory perception, potentially altering or enhancing the actual scent experience. By building an AI…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Tuberculosis (TB), a leading cause of infectious disease death worldwide, disproportionately affects lower-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). When diagnosed early, TB is very curable, but…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In this enhanced exploration, we delve into the intricate design and integration of a pair of robotic arms, meticulously crafted through laser-cutting and 3D printing techniques, into our ad…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Over 300 million people around the world are color blind and at least 2.2 billion have a visual impairment. Which is why this project aims to help the visually impaired so individuals can no…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Modern electrical systems rely heavily on sensors and relays for fault detection in three-phase transmission lines and distribution transformers. However, these devices often suffer from hig…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The recent rise of foundation models has been shown to have immense power in pattern recognition and performing "zero-shot" predictions. A key field that could greatly benefit from leveragin…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Conventional architectures such as the Transformer struggle to scale to very long sequences of over 10 000 steps. Promisingly, recent advances in sequence models based on the Structured Stat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
In the contemporary landscape of medical technology, the integration of machine learning (ML) with wearable electrocardiograms (ECGs) presents a groundbreaking approach to cardiovascular dis…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In 2019 alone, there were reportedly over thirty-thousand driver related deaths and over three-million driver related injuries. Interestingly, over 60% of these deaths and around 200,000 of…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Background: Heart disease is the foremost cause of death worldwide, and specialty care such as cardiologists and expensive Doppler echocardiograms are scarce in rural areas. There is signifi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
In the context of an increasingly technological society and a demographic trend towards an aging population, the challenge of aiding individuals with compromised hand functionality in conduc…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Oral administration is a common drug delivery way in our daily lives. However, achieving precise target delivery and ensuring medication efficacy in the digestive system with complex pH envi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Approximately 1.1 billion people live in slums worldwide today with the number expected to grow by 2 billion in the next 30 years. Slum rehabilitation efforts rely heavily on slum mapping an…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Purpose: In a world where the population is ever-increasing, optimizing transportation routes has become imperative. The following project aimed to create a more efficient method for analyzi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
In a world where nearly 800 million people face hunger, aquaculture, especially shrimp farming, emerges as a vital solution to bolster food security and sustainably meet the nutritional need…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Background: Escalating natural disasters demand rapid, efficient, and safe response solutions. This project introduces a cost-effective autonomous drone system designed for disaster relief a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Zoro is a robotic quadruped meant to explore and map unknown or dangerous environments using many sensors such as an Xbox Kinect for IR depth sensing and mapping and encoders, touch sensors,…