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Eating independently. Drinking independently. Communicating freely.
For people living with paralysis, these are life-changing goals, and Rice engineering is helping make them possible.

Nishal Shah, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is leading the computational work on a new BrainGate clinical trial, decoding brain signals to drive robotic assistive devices.

Rice + Baylor. The first BrainGate team in Texas.

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Clinical trial seeks to advance intuitive assistive robotics for people with paralysis Rice, in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, will join BrainGate, a consortium of universities and academic medical centers working on creating brain-computer interface technologies.

Quantum computers with completely different hardware, learning together. Sounds like a stretch. Rice University Computer Science researchers made it work and tested it on real IBM quantum hardware.

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Robots that help in surgery, respond in emergencies and make daily life easier. The researchers at Rice University Computer Science are not waiting for the future to figure this out.

They are building it now, with NASA 30 miles away and the Texas Medical Center right next door.

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Robotics & Physical AI in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University In the field of Robotics & Physical AI, Rice University Computer Sc...

What happens when computer scientists, economists and social scientists sit down together to talk about AI? That's exactly what this workshop is designed to find out.

Registration is open for the Crossroads of AI & Society Workshop, a two-day event hosted by Rice University at the Global Paris Center, July 15-16, 2026 in Paris, France.

The workshop brings together researchers across computer science, economics and the social sciences to explore how AI systems are designed, deployed and governed. Sessions will cover fairness, privacy and incentives, with invited speakers from MIT, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Yale, Caltech, Georgia Tech and more.

Graduate students and postdocs: there is a poster session open to you, and a limited number of $500 travel grants are available with priority given to poster presenters.

Key deadlines:
Poster session and travel grant applications: May 29
General registration: June 12

Registration is FREE. See the full speaker lineup and organizer team in the comments, and learn more at aaforml.com/2026