• Thought-controlled virtual quadcopter

    A brain-computer interface, surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia, paralysis in all four limbs, provided an unprecedented level of control over a virtual quadcopter—just by thinking about moving their unresponsive fingers.

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  • Lightwave-connected chips

    A new chip-connection system could help topple the “memory wall,” which limits computing speed and the growth of AI models today, by transferring data along reconfigurable pathways of light rather than electrical wires. The technology will be developed by a U-M led project funded by a $2M grant from the National Science Foundation’s Future of Semiconductors program.

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  • New water purification technology

    Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water. A study describing the new technology has been published in Nature Water by engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University.

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  • Battery-like computer memory keeps working above 1000°F

    Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of engineers led by the University of Michigan.

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