Engineering
An international team of researchers has developed a technique that, for the first time, allows single-crystal hybrid perovskite materials to be integrated into electronics. Because these perovskites can be synthesized at ...
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Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women's Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule that can be controlled using Bluetooth wireless technology. The capsule, which can be customized to deliver drugs, sense environmental ...
Dec 13, 2018
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Robotics
Inspecting a damaged building after an earthquake or during a fire is exactly the kind of job that human rescuers would like drones to do for them. A flying robot could look for people trapped inside and guide the rescue ...
Dec 12, 2018
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Engineering
Researchers at the University of Washington have created a sensor package that is small enough to ride aboard a bumblebee.
Dec 12, 2018
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Engineering
New "classification models" sense how well humans trust intelligent machines they collaborate with, a step toward improving the quality of interactions and teamwork.
Dec 11, 2018
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Engineering
MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce "superheated" steam hotter than 100 degrees Celsius, without any expensive optics.
Dec 11, 2018
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Engineering
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have devised a method for using an origami-based structure to create radio frequency filters that have adjustable dimensions, enabling the devices to change which signals ...
Dec 10, 2018
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Engineering
A 3-D-printed glucose biosensor for use in wearable monitors has been created by Washington State University researchers.
Dec 06, 2018
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Robotics
A team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab built a cyborg that combines a plant with electronics and ultimately allows the plant to choose when it would like to move to a brighter spot. The cyborg is the brainchild of team ...
Dec 05, 2018 report
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Engineering
Connecting large battery systems to the energy grid offers the ability to capture and store renewable energy during the windy and sunny times, and then use the stored energy during less sunny and less windy times. No surprise ...
Dec 04, 2018
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