A Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-led team has developed a box that can decontaminate N95 respirator masks using ultraviolet light.


A Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-led team has developed a box that can decontaminate N95 respirator masks using ultraviolet light.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and UCLA engineers have developed a flexible sensor “skinâ€� that can be stretched over any part of a robot’s body or prosthetic to accurately convey information about shear forces and vibration, which are critical to tasks ranging from cooking an egg to dismantling a bomb.

A more efficient and clean wood-burning cookstove — developed by Vashon Island’s BURN Design Lab and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ mechanical engineers — will reduce the amount of fuel families need to collect or buy by 55 percent. It will also reduce exposure to the harmful particulate pollution produced by traditional cooking flames.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineers have received a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to design a better cookstove, which researchers say will use half as much fuel and cut emissions by 90 percent.