USC researchers built a robotic hand that hears a melody once and plays it back after just two minutes of self-taught practice on a keyboard. They say the implications go far beyond music.

Faculty in the Cockrell School of Engineering developed a rare printer as part of a larger project to speed up production and lower costs of manufacturing semiconductors critical to modern electronics.

Salk Fellow Talmo Pereira, who designs AI-based tools to study movement in fields ranging from neuroscience to plant biology, joins the faculty as assistant professor. Julie Law, who studies how epigenetics influences human and plant health, has been promoted from associate professor to full professor.