New Approach Advances Wireless Power Transfer for Vehicles

NC State researchers moving closer to their goal of creating highway ‘stations’ that can recharge electric vehicles wirelessly as the vehicles drive by. Srdjan Lukic, Kibok Lee and Zeljko Pantic, electrical engineering, featured.

New Approach Advances Wireless Power Transfer for Vehicles

NC State researchers moving closer to their goal of creating highway ‘stations’ that can recharge electric vehicles wirelessly as the vehicles drive by. Srdjan Lukic, Kibok Lee and Zeljko Pantic, electrical engineering, featured.

New mobile wireless vehicle charging technique

NC State researchers moving closer to their goal of creating highway ‘stations’ that can recharge electric vehicles wirelessly as the vehicles drive by. Srdjan Lukic, electrical engineering, featured.

Insect Cyborgs Map Unknown Environments

NC State researchers have developed software that allows them to map unknown environments — such as collapsed buildings. Edgar Lobaton, Alper Bozkurt and Alireza Dirafzoon, electrical and computer engineering, featured.

Mapping Out The Unknown With Cyborg Bug Swarms

The cyborg bugs could give responders ‘a quick picture of the environment,’ under conditions that may be dangerous or inaccessible to human rescuers. Edgar Lobaton, electrical engineering, featured.

Send In the Cockroach Squad

Researchers have been working with tiny robots based on cockroaches as well as with actual roaches–controlled by an embedded chip–as a possible means of exploring collapsed buildings. Edgar Lobaton, electrical and computer engineering, featured.