Solowheel Iota wants to go places with wheels between your feet
(Tech Xplore)—A self balancing scooter has turned to crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The rideable is called the Solowheel Iota.
Consumer & Gadgets
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Engineering
'Lego-electronics' offer simple way to assemble integrated circuits
(Tech Xplore)—One of the biggest challenges in the drive to miniaturize electronic devices is the difficulty in aligning and assembling the increasingly tiny electronic components with the necessary precision, which is challenging ...
Robotics
This is PATRICK: Meet the brittle star-inspired robot that can crawl underwater
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have recently created PATRICK, an untethered soft robot that artificially replicates the structure and behavior of the brittle star, a marine invertebrate closely related to starfish. ...
Computer Sciences
A deep learning-based method to detect cyberbullying on Twitter
Researchers at King Saud University, in Saudi Arabia, have developed a new approach to detect cyberbullying on Twitter using deep learning called OCDD. In contrast with other deep-learning approaches, which extract features ...
Robotics
Using gelatin and sugar as ink to print 3D soft robots
A team of researchers at Johannes Kepler University Linz has used biodegradable materials as ink to print 3D soft robots. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, the group describes how they developed their ...
Robotics
Robot DE NIRO: A robotics platform for human-centered interactions
In the future, robots could play a key role in healthcare settings, easing the lives of the elderly and assisting vulnerable individuals. Researchers at Imperial College London have recently created Robot DE NIRO, a robotics ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Amazon, Apple and Google unite to certify smart home devices
Tech giants Amazon, Apple and Google have announced their support of Matter, a standard focusing on capable and secure smart devices for homes. Also known as Internet of Things (IoT) products, these devices include smart ...
Energy & Green Tech
A stand-alone solar farm in Crete that integrates graphene perovskite solar panels
Perovskites, mineral materials composed of calcium titanate, have been found to be valuable for the fabrication of high-performance solar cells. While teams of scientists and engineers worldwide have been developing and testing ...
Computer Sciences
A new approach to overcome multi-model forgetting in deep neural networks
In recent years, researchers have developed deep neural networks that can perform a variety of tasks, including visual recognition and natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Although many of these models achieved remarkable ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Intel, Lenovo spread foldable computer fever at CES
Will more foldable and dual-screen PCs be more like the norm rather than the novelty? CES 2020 has shown promising signs that good things are coming down the pike.
