Make-A-Wish and the UWEE BioRobotics Lab helped Alex’s dream come true — to see how robots can help humanity. But he didn’t know robots could dance!
"You can't really come up with new solutions unless you try to attack the problem from a different angle."
- 2011 MacArthur Genius Award winner Shwetak Patel
UWEE's Babak Parviz, Brian Otis and grad student Andrew Lingley have successfully developed a wirelessly-powered single pixel display on a lens as a proof of concept. Such lenses could display short emails and other messages directly before a wearer's eyes.
Their uniforms are lab coats. They don’t have a team cheer, but 23 UW students and their five advisers were on cloud nine Nov. 7 when they won the World Championship in what is called synthetic biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
