Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Current state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs), such as GPT, are able to accurately infer invasive details about individuals from anonymous online posts. This combined with the ease o…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Radiologists and Pulmonologists identify radiographic findings of pulmonary nodules within daily clinical practice. The identification and classification of these nodules is critical, as mal…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines (inferred)
A CNC Router is a manufacturing machine that is computer controlled and used in both industrial and certain small-scale use cases. My project aims to design and build a precise and affordabl…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Reliable and timely access to medical supplies is a significant challenge in regions with poor infrastructures and frequent natural disasters. Drones present a promising solution by enabling…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Rip currents pose significant hazards to beach safety. They are unpredictable and strong, quickly pulling swimmers away from shore, often leading to drowning. To mitigate the harm of rip cur…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines (inferred)
Exploration of formerly uncharted terrain has sparked demand for robotic systems capable of locomotion across rough geometries of terrain. To construct such robots, researchers and engineers…
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Third Award
Over 4 million colonoscopies result in severe adverse reactions (SAEs) such as perforations, internal bleeding, and other side effects by the external pressure placed by a gastroenterologist…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Advancements in materials science have driven technological progress, yet discovering new materials remains challenging due to resource-intensive laboratory experiments, costly characterizat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Speech disorders such as stuttering, articulation errors, and atypical vocal patterns affect millions of children worldwide, limiting communication and confidence. Traditional therapy, while…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Ornithopters have never fully replicated the efficiency of birds, which rely on complex kinematics that integrate thrust, lift, drag, and weight to optimize flight efficiency (Landell-Mills,…
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Third Award
Coral reefs are a vital ecosystem that thousands of species rely on. However, with climate changing, coral reefs are struggling. The “Cnidaria” Project serves as a tool for scientists to acc…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The teleoperation of robotic hands is limited by the high costs of depth cameras and sensor gloves, commonly used to estimate hand relative joint positions (XYZ). We present a novel, cost-ef…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Cocoa production contributes 10% to Ghana’s GDP, but diseases like Anthracnose and Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) caused $1.2 billion in losses in 2023. Traditional detection meth…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines (inferred)
Most Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to answer general questions, but these models often fall short when asked to solve complex mathematical problems. Though GPT-4 vision is conside…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Urban transportation faces multifaceted challenges including traffic congestion, road safety, and the need for real-time accident prevention. This project presents a comprehensive approach e…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The growing evolution of artificial intelligence tools has culminated in the development of potentially harmful technologies, such as audio deepfakes. These artificially created media can cl…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Currently, there is a noticeable lack of AI in the medical field to support doctors in treating heterogenous diseases such as Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), which has a five-year survival ra…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Pneumonia is a potentially lethal lung disease characterized by inflammation of the alveoli. Chest X-ray (CXR) imaging is the primary diagnostic tool, but human interpretation requires signi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The aim of this project is to determine how having two methods of movement (wheels and legs) affects the movement capabilities of a robot. First, a robot with both wheeled and quadruped syst…
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Fourth Award
The main goal is to build a robot that can manage plant diseases autonomously for efficient disease management in agriculture. Conventional approaches are time-consuming, laborious, and inac…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Every year in the U.S., millions of cats and dogs go missing, but only a few are reunited with their owners. To address this issue, our study proposes a deep learning approach for matching l…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Deep neural networks are used in the medical industry as tools to diagnose skin cancer from photographic images and detect the severity of diabetic retinopathy. Alongside these steps in medi…
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Third Award
Current commercial and research-grade prosthetics lack fine motor movements and have limited degrees of freedom. These functional limitations force the amputee to compensate, which causes ot…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
With over 150,000 new amputees each year, the need for more affordable, fully functional prosthetics continues to grow. The aim of this project is to create a cost-effective prosthetic hand…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Machine learning is a rapidly growing field, making incredible advances especially in the subfields of computer vision and image classification. These advances are in part what allow for inn…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Bionic soft robot is an important branch in the field of robotics, allowing robots to use effective mechanical structure to maneuver in complex conditions. Among them, water surface robots w…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The existing Go AI System assumes players operate at the highest level, presenting analyses often inaccessible to most enthusiasts. This study addresses this gap by proposing novel estimatio…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Genetic Algorithms mimic evolution of a species in nature, where each generation is made up of a population of chromosomes, which, through crossover and mutation, evolve increasingly fit off…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This study aims to use machine learning to develop a more precise waste identification process than humans. We first observed the amount and type of contents in trash and recycling bins arou…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
When moving autonomously, robots struggle to move to an exact target position, usually overshooting the goal. This is because it is impossible to infinitely decelerate (or stop immediately).…