Prosthetic ‘BairClaw’ helps amputees ‘touch’

Veronica Santos is an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the UCLA biomechatronics laboratory. Her team is working on developing the “BairClaw,” a robot hand testbed. They are using this to study how humans interact with objects and hope to develop ways to provide amputees with a conscious perception of touch.

UCLA concrete canoe team wins ASCE regional conference

The UCLA concrete canoe team won the ASCE regional concrete canoe conference on April 1. Centering around the theme “Speakeasy,” the team designed, mixed, constructed and raced its concrete canoe to first place. Maxwell Armenta, a fourth-year civil engineering student and concrete canoe project manager, attributes this year’s success to a dedicated freshman membership and […]