New York University's Tandon School of Engineering hosted its annual research exhibit at the Brooklyn Commons in downtown Brooklyn on Friday, showcasing student inventions that included wearable exoskeletons, a carbon neutral concrete canoe and many robots.
The winner of the showcase was an autonomous rover developed to preform lunar excavation and construction, according to a press release.
"As this year is a particularly exceptional celebration of our past, our present, and our future, I encourage you to think of the accomplishments Tandon researchers have made in past decades: mass-producing penicillin, landing men on the Moon, laying the foundation for next-generation wireless, and countless other life-altering accomplishments," said NYU Tandon School of Engineering Dean Jelena Kovačević at the Research Excellence Exhibit. "The germs of those ideas started from people on this campus, and I think some of the powerful new research and technology you’ll witness today holds similarly life-altering potential."
Other high-tech inventions displayed included a protein hydrogel for heavy metal removal that was created to help clean the Gowanus Canal; a project which developed new and more accessible hand gestures for use with VR; and a project that uses machine learning and computer vision to automatically detect façade defects on buildings.
