In The News: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ student Kyle Kimsey recently won the regional qualifying round of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards for his startup business Adler Dynamics.

Seeking to benefit from the anticipated, widespread commercial use of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) nationwide, Nevadans have been working diligently to cultivate an industry around this type of aircraft.

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.
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.



Nevada leads the nation in drone technology, as now there is more proof that the future of robotics is right here at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.



When you ask 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ robotics professor Paul Oh how long his laboratory took to create, he can’t help but laugh.

We’re looking at the heavy-duty digits of a Hubo humanoid robot hanging in his 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ engineering lab, and Paul Oh is trying to help me understand why they’re not as elegant as mine. Yet.

The little girl squirmed in her mother’s arms inside a lab at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, her American flag-themed dress contrasting with the hammers, rulers and other engineering equipment that surrounded her.