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For the topics of “Design and Control Optimization of Soft Gripper Mechanisms for Manipulation” and “Autonomous Navigation of Aerial Robotic Manipulators in Unstructured Indoor and Outdoor Environments”, respectively, the Professors Robert Katzschmann and Roland Siegwart receive Amazon Research Awards.

Honouring science breakthroughs that shape the future of science and society, Randall Platt, head of the Biological Engineering Lab, is named one of the Falling Walls Life Science Winners this year. He will present his award-​winning research on cellular programming technologies for diagnostics and therapeutics at the Science Summit on 7-9 November in Berlin, Germany.

Siddhartha Mishra, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2021 Germund Dahlquist Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).