In The News: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Five Southern Nevada residents, including a financial expert, the general manager of the Regional Transportation Commission and an engineering professor, have been named to the new Nevada High-Speed Rail Authority.
Fans of space and science could be in for a treat today. Today, former astronaut Sandra Magnus will stop by UNLV.
Local Motors and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas have partnered to create a research and development program that will create new technologies for automobiles.
Local Motors, an Arizona-based company known for creating the first 3D-printed car, is partnering with UNLV to develop technology for autonomous vehicles. As part of the research announced Tuesday, the university’s Drones and Autonomous Systems Lab will rig a Local Motors vehicle with sensors that they hope will enable a robot to operate the 3D-printed vehicle.
Las Vegans and Californians alike have been waiting years for another travel option that will save long wait times at the airport or a potential disaster on Interstate 15.
At the Baltimore Orioles game on Monday, the work of UNLV and its engineering students will be center stage as 5-year-old Hailey Dawson will throw out the first pitch using the Flexy-Hand 2, which is a 3D-printed prosthetic device created by the UNLV engineering department.
Las Vegas-based technology firm Switch opened a new data center Thursday, bringing its total square footage in the Las Vegas valley to more than 1.5 million. The company expects its newest facility, Supernap Las Vegas 9, to receive similar credentials to its other data centers, making it one of the highest rated data centers in the world.
Still a relatively new technology, 3-D printing has seen growth in its usage over the years. Aeronautics and even hospitals have benefited from the process, and it is slowly taking over as one of leading ideas for material crafting in the future.
From the very beginning of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals, it was obvious that driving was going to be a problem for the robot contestants. The very first robots to take the field this past Friday at the Fairplex in Pomona, California showed up without their modified Polaris utility vehicles. These machines were hoofing it, using their own legs to gradually make their way down a dirt strip meant to simulate part of a disaster zone too perilous for humans. It turned out to be pretty perilous for robots, too. By not even getting into the cars, these teams were already conceding defeat in the two-day Pentagon-funded competition.
