Media Mentions

The Texas Aerial Robotics (TAR) student organization has collaborated with Maruthi Akella's Controls Group for Distributed and Uncertain Systems lab and LIFT Aircraft to compete in the GoAERO competition where they were selected as a Stage 1 Winner.

Apptronik, a spin-off company that started in Luis Sentis' Human Centered Robotics Laboratory, has raised $350 million to scale the production of AI-powered humanoid robots.

KVUE News features professor Maruthi Akella and UT Aerospace alumna Annie Vo Cohen of Firefly Aerospace in this story about the reasons for returning to the Moon and the future of the booming Texas space economy.

In this piece on space environmentalism, Moriba Jah discusses the growing issue of orbital space debris and the need for a circular space economy.

Srinivas Bettadpur's work recognized by the American Geophysical Union with the Charles A. Whitten Medal is featured in this Daily Texan story.

Todd Humphreys says the aviation industry and regulators need to act quickly to protect aircraft against spoofing of commercial aircraft. 

Todd Humphreys discusses civilian and aviation GPS spoofing against missiles in Lebanon and the Middle East.

This Inverse piece discusses a paper co-authored by Thomas Underwood and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that explores how plasmas could have contributed to the chemical origin of life on early Earth.

In this TEDx UT Austin talk, Nanshu Lu explains why rigid electronics don’t work well with our soft, pliable skin–and how her flexible, tattoo-like sensors are changing the future of at-home healthcare.

Learn how Texas Engineers are making their mark on the Moon and how they plan to make spaceflight operations safer and more accessible in this Alcalde piece that features alumnus Tim Crain and faculty members Maruthi Akella, Brandon Jones and Renato Zanetti.

Pairing real-world systems with their digital representations could improve decision-making, but questions remain about reliability and trustworthiness. 

Moriba Jah was featured on NPR's TED Radio Hour May 10 episode, "Our tech has a climate problem: How we solve it." Jah is one of several TED speakers discussing the use of innovations such as AI, electric cars and satellites without making the climate problem worse.

Nanshu Lu her discusses her research team's new development of electronic, stretchable skin that has the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin. This could be applied to medical care, where robots could check a patient's pulse, wipe the body or massage a body part.

Two teams of aerospace engineering seniors have been selected to participate in NASA's 2024 RASC-AL Competition.

Last month, a family living in Napels, Fla. got a huge surprise when a chunk of metal - which ended up being part of a pallet of old batteries from the International Space Station - crashed through the roof of their home. Moriba Jah speaks with NPR on his work to understand and predict the behavior of human-made objects in orbit, and to ultimately make Earth and space safe and sustainable.