Rory A. Cooper is the founding director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, a joint center of the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He is a VA ...

Nov. 23—In a laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Antonio Socarras winds up, 40 sensors taped to him from his baseball cap down to his cleats. Standing on a makeshift pitcher's mound, Socarras ...

The founder of Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh, Cooper holds 25 U.S. patents on products ranging from a robotic arm that can be attached to wheelchairs to help ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania officials are urging the Trump administration to keep a research laboratory in Pittsburgh open, warning that staffing cuts and a possible closure would jeopardize mine ...