Robofest to name global winners Oct. 2, plans return to in-person competition for 2022

Lawrence Technological University’s Robofest, the only global robotics competition that has continued operations during the pandemic, will name its worldwide winners for 2021 in an online ceremony Saturday, Oct. 2.

Extending the Harmonic Numbers to the Reals

LTU graduate, Michael DiFranco shares how the harmonic numbers are the partial sums of the harmonic series - sums of whole number reciprocals. This video explores how we can extend their domain to the entire real line.

African American Chemists Book Celebration

A conversation about chemistry history, pedagogy, and cultural narratives.

Detroit students attend Robofest summer camp at Children's Museum

Students from the Detroit Public Schools Community District’s Bates Academy attended a Robofest day camp at the Detroit Children's Museum Saturday, July 24, with representatives of the university and IBM to learn about robotics and LTU’s long-running robotics competition.

Lawrence Tech wins fourth straight title as collegiate champ of autonomous vehicles

After taking a year off due to the pandemic, it was back to form for Lawrence Technological University at the 28th Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC), held Friday through Monday, June 4-7, at Oakland University in Rochester. LTU took first place in the Self-Drive Challenge, one of two competitions at the IGVC.

LTU gets second autonomous electric vehicle

Lawrence Technological University celebrated the gift of a second Gem e2 electric vehicle in an outdoor ceremony Tuesday at the university’s Southfield campus. The university’s computer science program has turned the two-seat car into a second autonomous vehicle research platform for students to learn to develop software for the self-driving cars of the future.