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We encourage research that examines the transformative potential of frontier technologies for critical infrastructure and the built environment.

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Cross-technology Innovation Trends and Evidence with Patent and Funding Data

Innovation isn’t only driven by major breakthroughs across industries—it also emerges when ideas, software, and hardware from different areas of technology are combined in new ways. Research analyzing millions of patents and venture investments shows that this type of cross-technology innovation is accelerating, especially in emerging fields.

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Collaborative Welding and Joint Sealing Robots With Haptic Feedback

2021 Proceedings of the 38th ISARC, Dubai, UAE

Brosque, C., Galbally, E., Chen, Y., Joshi, R., Khatib, O., & Fischer, M.
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Generative Neural Articulated Radiance Fields

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35, 19900-19916

Bergman, A., Kellnhofer, P., Yifan, W., Chan, E., Lindell, D., & Wetzstein, G.
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Is Too Much System Caution Counterproductive?

Effects of Varying Sensitivity and Automation Levels in Vehicle Collision Avoidance Systems. 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Fu, E., Johns, M., Hyde, D., Sibi, S., Fischer, M., & Sirkin, D.
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