Research & Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV)

  • Aerial photo of campus.
    The College of Engineering and Applied Science moved up three places in this year’s U.S. News and World Reports Best Graduate Schools rankings, coming in at No. 14 among public institutions and No. 27 overall. Three engineering degree programs
  • Representative illustration of artifical intelligence.
    University of Colorado Boulder researchers are developing artificial intelligence systems so computers can recognize and explain their own limitations to users.

    It takes on an important issue people face with each other every day.

    “We all have different competencies and we know our own limitations. If I'm asked to...
  • Dennis Akos and Allie Anderson
    The Research & Innovation Office has announced the 2020 RIO Faculty Fellows, which is comprised of 13 of CU Boulder’s most promising faculty. Two members of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences were
  • Drones lift a ‘Cut Before Flight’ ribbon to Ann Smead (left) and Brian Argrow at the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building grand opening ceremony on August 26, 2019.
    Aerospace has a new home at CU Boulder. The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences has moved into its new dedicated building on East Campus. Eighteen months after construction began, the four-story, 175,000-square-foot
  • A student holding a UAV.
    Researchers from CU Boulder flew drones into severe storms this spring for project TORUS, one of the largest and most ambitious drone-based investigations of meteorological phenomena ever, with students leading much of the work.
  • Donor Ann Smead cuts a ribbon lifted up by two flying drones.
    And liftoff. Today, visitors from across Colorado gathered at CU Boulder for an event celebrating the new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building, home to the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. This building,
  • The new building.
    The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences has moved into a new dedicated building on East Campus.

    The four-story, nearly 180,000 square-foot structure was completed over the summer following 18 months of construction, and a formal ribbon cutting ceremony is planned for Monday, August 26, to kick off the semester...
  • Alex Hirst with the RAAVEN fixed-wing drone.
    Alex Hirst saw his first tornado recently, followed quickly by his second, third, fourth and fifth. As an aerospace PhD student and Smead Scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder, he played an active role in the 2019 TORUS project – which took a team of...
  • A UAV in the air.
    Researchers from CU Boulder flew drones into severe storms this spring in one of the largest and most ambitious drone-based investigations of meteorological phenomena ever.
  • A UAV mounted to a car.
    Researchers from CU Boulder are flying drones into severe storms in one of the largest and most ambitious drone-based investigations of meteorological phenomena ever.  Project TORUS – or Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells
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