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The Science of Swimming

July 30, 2024

A new collaboration between the Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Exercise and Sport Science and USA Swimming seeks to tackle fundamental questions on swimmer performance and leverage those answers in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Autonomous medical robot successfully steers needles through living tissue

September 21, 2023

A team of researchers and physicians led by Professor Ron Alterovitz in UNC’s computer science department has demonstrated, for the first time, a robotic needle capable of autonomously maneuvering through intricate lung tissue while avoiding obstacles and important lung structures.