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ACES professor leads team winning MURI award to build cyberoctopus

ACES professor leads team winning MURI award to build cyberoctopus
ACES professor leads team winning MURI award to build cyberoctopus

URBANA, Ill. – A “cyberoctopus” may sound like a superhero, but it is actually the focus of the recently announced multidisciplinary university research initiative (MURI) award led by Girish Chowdhary, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at the University of Illinois. The project, funded by the Department of Defense Office of Naval Research, is looking to advance the frontiers of AI, control, and robotics, by learning from the brain and body of octopuses and other cephalopods. Read more.

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