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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers created MobiPrint, a mobile 3D printer that can automatically measure a room and print objects onto the floor. The team’s graphic interface lets users design objects in a space that the robot has mapped out. The prototype, which the team built on a modified consumer vacuum robot, can add a range of objects to rooms.

In a survey of 315 people conducted by researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and Georgetown University, respondents largely found creating and sharing sexually explicit “deepfakesâ€� unacceptable. But far fewer respondents strongly opposed seeking out these media. Previous research has shown that other people viewing non-AI image-based abuse harms the victims significantly.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Awardâ€� — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials. But when researchers customized the tool with written instructions directing it not to be ableist, the tool reduced this bias for all but one of the disabilities tested.

A Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ team has developed an artificial intelligence system that lets someone wearing headphones look at a person speaking for three to five seconds to “enrollâ€� them. The system then plays just the enrolled speaker’s voice in real time, even as the pair move around in noisy environments.

A team led by researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ developed a new PCB that performs on par with traditional materials and can be recycled repeatedly with negligible material loss. Researchers used a solvent that transforms a type of vitrimer — a cutting-edge class of polymer — into a jelly-like substance without damage, allowing solid components to be plucked out for reuse or recycling. With these “vPCBsâ€� (vitrimer printed circuit boards), researchers recovered 98% of the vitrimer and 100% of the glass fiber.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Graduate Schools rankings released late Monday.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers taught a group of high schoolers to code by combining cultural research into various embroidery traditions with “computational embroidery.â€� The method teaches kids to encode embroidery patterns on a computer through a coding language called Turtlestitch.

Sonia Fereidooni, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, was selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Fereidooni, 22, will receive a full-cost scholarship to pursue doctoral work in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge, England. The highly competitive scholarship brings recognition of accomplishments and future promise. This year, 26 students from 20 institutions across the United States were selected. Fereidooni was born in Eastern Canada and raised in rural Washington. While an undergraduate at the…

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers introduced the Thermal Earring, a wireless wearable that continuously monitors a user’s earlobe temperature. Potential applications include tracking signs of ovulation, stress, eating and exercise. The smart earring prototype is about the size and weight of a small paperclip and has a 28-day battery life.

A team led by researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has developed deep-learning algorithms that let users pick which sounds filter through their headphones in real time. Either through voice commands or a smartphone app, headphone wearers can select which sounds they want to include from 20 classes, such as sirens, baby cries, speech, vacuum cleaners and bird chirps.

Seven researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ conducted a three-month autoethnographic study — drawing on their own experiences as people with and without disabilities — to test AI tools’ utility for accessibility. Though researchers found cases in which the tools were helpful, they also found significant problems.

Recent recognition for the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ includes Emily M. Bender and Yejin Choi on the TIME100 AI list, President Ana Mari Cauce receiving a Decrees Award and Jeff Hou’s election to the American Society of Landscape Architects’ Council of Fellows.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings released late Monday.

Two Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty members have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 15, are Leilani Battle, an assistant professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, and Jonathan J. Zhu, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics.

A team led by researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ studied how artificial intelligence could help people on the platform TalkLife, where people give each other mental health support. The researchers developed an AI system that suggested changes to participants’ responses to make them more empathetic. The best responses resulted from a collaboration between AI and people.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers developed UnlockedMaps, a web-based map that allows users to see in real time how accessible rail transit stations are in six metro areas. UnlockedMaps shows which stations are accessible and which ones are experiencing elevator outages.

Yejin Choi, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, has received a “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Choi uses natural language processing to develop artificial intelligence systems that have the ability to reason and can understand the implied meanings in human language.

In a proof-of-principle study, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and University of California San Diego researchers have shown that smartphones are capable of detecting blood oxygen saturation levels down to 70%. This is the lowest value that pulse oximeters should be able to measure, as recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.