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Stanford University School of Engineering

The Stanford School of Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation for nearly a century, creating pivotal technologies that have transformed the worlds of information technology, communications, medicine, energy, business and beyond. The faculty, students and alumni of Stanford Engineering have established thousands of companies and laid the technological and business foundations for Silicon Valley. Founded in 1925, the school has a tradition of pursuing multidisciplinary collaboration aimed at solving the most pressing global problems.

Episodes

Nicholas Bloom: Home is where the work is

10 Feb 2023

28m

Mac Schwager: How engineers are putting the ‘auto’ in autonomous

27 Jan 2023

29m

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Autonomous vehicles and multi-robot systems require sophisticated coordination strategies to safely navigate environments shared with human drivers. Because these vehicles currently lack direct communication networks, they must employ game theory and inverse reinforcement learning to infer human intent and predict beha...

Engineering humanoid robots for deep-sea exploration enables precise, intuitive manipulation at depths reaching 1,000 meters. By utilizing buoyancy-providing hollow glass microspheres and oil-filled, pressure-compensated limbs, these robots withstand extreme conditions while maintaining the dexterity of a human diver. ...