Vladimir Vantsevich and Lee Moradi, two professors at WPI, have established an Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Institute (AVMI).

Every two weeks, Greg Fischer and some colleagues made the three-hour drive, sans traffic, from Worcester, Mass. to Niskayuna, NY. Fischer, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and the director of the Automation and Interventional Medicine Robotics Laboratory, is a pioneer of MRI-guided surgical robots. He and and his…

Robotic sensors, mobility, and manipulation are opening up new applications for healthcare robotics developers, said speakers at the inaugural Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum.

WPI’s projects are designed to immerse 120 graduate students in interdisciplinary research and training that will help tackle future workplace challenges.

If asked to name an oceanic apex predator, sharks are usually the first to come to people’s minds. But ask a fisherman or conservationist in the Carribean or coastal U.S. and you might get a different answer. There, a much smaller creature is terrorizing the underwater ecosystem. Lionfish, a colorful aquarium fish native to the…