Media Mentions

Luis Sentis, founder of Apptronik, a startup spun out of the UT Austin Human Centered Robotics Lab, unveiled the company's latest robot, Apollo, the 'iPhone' of human robots.

Two University of Texas at Austin teams took first and second place in the new annual SmallSat Alliance Collegiate Space Competition.

"Just like we all want to walk on clean beaches, we also need a space environment free from the trash we create on Earth." - Moriba Jah on the growing issue of orbital space debris in this Scientific American opinion piece.

Learn why UT's Center for Space Research and UT Portugal researchers are developing a constellation of small satellites to study ocean level variations and climate change in this Cross Talks #8 podcast featuring our own Brandon Jones.

"But as the state’s center for tech and innovation, and home to UT’s top-10 ranked aerospace engineering program, Austin has been trying to prop itself up as an entrepreneurial spoke of the space hub taking shape within the Texas Triangle."

Space environmentalist Moriba Jah is one of five space luminaries who elaborate on what "building the space economy" means to them in this Aerospace America piece.

Apptronik, co-founded by Luis Sentis, will unveil its humanoid robot this summer.

Watch this KXAN News report featuring the Texas Rocket Engineering Lab (TREL). The team's goal? To become the first collegiate team ever to design, build and launch a liquid-propellant rocket to the edge of space.

This opinion piece in The Daily Texan features the Texas Rocket Engineering Lab and the team's rocket, Halcyon. "The Texas Rocket Engineering Lab is preparing students for the new space era with hands-on experience building and launching Halcyon."

Universal Hydrogen, an aviation company co-founded by ASE/EM professor John-Paul Clarke, made history with its successful first flight of a hydrogen-powered airplane. The flight is the largest hydrogen fuel cell powered airplane ever to take to the skies and largest airplane to cruise principally on hydrogen. 

Aerospace engineering alumnus Paul "Rusty" Thomas will be serving in a dual role at Sierra Space, as Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Space Applications business sector, and as the corporation's Chief Technology Officer.

Nanshu Lu's work to develop a palm e-tattoo that measures emotional stress is featured in this KXAN News story.

Can robots and humans co-exist in public? Luis Sentis is leading research that will bring a fleet of delivery robots to The University of Texas at Austin campus, where researchers will study how humans interact with them. Watch this CBS News report to see the robots in action.

John-Paul Clarke, and ASE/EM professor and cofounder of Universal Hydrogen, weighs in on the future of hydrogen fuel for cargo operations in this Grist piece.