Video by Desiree Kapler and Timothy Reeves | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 08.20.2025
Coastal engineers, emergency response teams and military planners may soon have a new best friend, thanks to continued research at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). For several weeks, a quadruped robot was deployed along North Carolina beaches – at the ERDC Field Research Facility in Duck, North Carolina – to test its ability to navigate the unique coastline......
Video by Jeff Chao, Timothy Reeves, Gary Haygood and Desiree Kapler | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 07.18.2024
Leveraging the unique robotic capabilities and facilities at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, part of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, engineers are working on a basic research project aimed at lightening Soldier loads and reducing the amount of personnel and machinery needed for down-range missions. The project, which goes by the acronym Co3MaNDR, uses......
Video by Jeff Chao and Christopher Kieffer | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 06.07.2022
The USACE Engineering With Nature® (EWN) program uses remote sensing methods to help practitioners plan projects that align natural processes and engineering capability for greater benefits. Remotely sensed data can reveal changes over the life of a project to quantify benefits and communicate project outcomes. USACE spends billions each year to alleviate the effects of sea-level rise on......
Video by Joseph Bara, Marisa Gaona and Sgt. David Marquis | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 06.02.2022
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory is expanding its capability in extreme cold weather research with its new Climatic Cold Chamber Building. The facility will be used for military research, development, test, and evaluation applications with a focus on the emerging needs of the warfighter. Plus, it will support the......
Video by Marisa Gaona | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 09.03.2021
Dr. David Pittman, Director of the U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center, reflects on the research conducted by ERDC over the past 20 years to develop and deliver engineering solutions to make the world safer, guided by the memory of the lives lost on 9/11 and in the subsequent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Never forget. We remember....
Video by Jeff Chao | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 10.07.2019
Current construction methods can be resource and labor intensive, which impacts efficiency. The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is revolutionizing this process through work being done at its Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in Champaign, Illinois. Engineers and scientists have developed a new 3D printer capable of outputting concrete to build houses......
Video by Jeff Chao | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 09.30.2019
Engineers and scientists at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) are working to ensure the military has the energy and water it needs in the event of a disaster. Dr. David Pittman, Director of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), sat down with Giselle Rodriguez, the chief of the energy branch at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory......
Video by Marisa Gaona | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 11.20.2018
Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) have developed an innovative technique that applies a planar cross-correlation velocimetry approach to an acoustic camera. The technique, Acoustic Camera Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), is extremely beneficial for understanding the risk to endangered species, breakup of mud......
