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Four members of the Sparks Sharks, a FIRST Lego League robotics team from Wilbur-Clatonia Public Schools, gather around a table in the Coliseum to watch their colorful Lego robot in action. A female judge and a few other people watch, as well.

FIRST Lego League championship is March 21-22 at Nebraska U

March 14, 2025

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Ash Eliza Smith guides a robotic arm in the Speculative Robotics Lab.

Speculative Robotics Lab invites public to imagine future of care

March 13, 2025

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Zach Short, project director for Educational Talent Search, guides Lily Tran, a sophomore, through using the controls to make the robot move.

TRIO's Talent Search building robotics into after-school programming

March 5, 2025

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Composite image showing youth participating in 4-H events.

Nebraska 4-H activities leave lasting impacts on students

May 10, 2024

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Nebraska Engineering professor and Virtual Incision co-founder Shane Farritor watches as Dr. Michael Jobst uses surgical controls in front of two video screens.

Nebraska-developed surgical robot receives FDA approval

February 27, 2024

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Nebraska Engineering professor and Virtual Incision co-founder Shane Farritor watches as Dr. Michael Jobst uses surgical controls in front of two video screens.

Surgical robot passes space test with flying colors

February 14, 2024

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Sean Crimmins, Erika Smith and Rachael Wagner adjust the robotic arm on a stand in a chamber for electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic interference testing.

Nebraska students engineer robot's space adventure

January 30, 2024

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The Nebraska-built surgical robot is among a number of scientific experiments being delivered to the International Space Station after the successful liftoff of NASA’s NG-20 cargo mission on Jan. 30. The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, shown here at liftoff atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is expected to arrive at the station on Feb. 1. The surgical robot will be tested in the coming weeks.

Surgical robot developed at Nebraska launches into space

January 30, 2024

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Farritor and Wagner working on Virtual Incision project

Wagner discovers opportunities abound at Nebraska U

November 30, 2022

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Jason Dumpert works with components in the console assembly area in the Virtual Incision lab at Nebraska Innovation Campus. Nebraska’s Shane Farritor, a professor of engineering and co-founder of Virtual Incision, was awarded six patents related to his surgical robot project.

Nebraska U rises in ranking for best at earning U.S. patents

September 14, 2022

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Students working on a drone in a campus lab.

$25M federal award to expand robotics development, entrepreneurship, outreach

September 2, 2022

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Nebraska’s Shane Farritor operates the Virtual Incision surgical robot in a lab at Nebraska Innovation Campus. The robot is scheduled for a test on the International Space Station in 2024.

Husker-developed surgical robot readies for space station test

August 2, 2022

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