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UI announces recipients of Discovery and Innovation awards

Thursday, March 17, 2022
Caterina Lamuta was named an Early Career Scholar of the Year by the Office of the Vice Present for Research.
Caterina Lamuta poses in front of the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories

UI mechanical engineering professor to use ceramic materials to enhance computing hardware

Friday, October 22, 2021
A new project from Caterina Lamuta, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Iowa, will seek to determine if low-cost geopolymers, ceramic materials similar to cement, can be used to develop computer components for data storage or that impact speed improvements.
Caterina Lamuta poses for a portrait in her lab.

UI researchers make artificial muscles with grant

Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Caterina Lamuta, assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering, is creating artificial muscles based on tentacle-like limbs.
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UI mechanical engineering professor receives DARPA Young Investigator Award to develop soft robots inspired by cephalopods’ tentacles

Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Caterina Lamuta was recently awarded a prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new self-morphing, stretchable soft skins (S⁴) for use in underwater vehicles and robots.
Caterina Lamuta and Venanzio Cichella pose for a photo in front of their house

Venanzio Cichella e Caterina Lamuta, sono raianesi i due inventori del dispositivo per le disabilità

Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Si chiamano Venanzio Cichella e Caterina Lamuta i due ingegneri raianesi che hanno creato un dispositivo di riabilitazione robotizzato per aiutare le persone con disabilità agli arti fornendo loro una maggiore capacità di movimento.