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Robotics
Real2sim2real: A self-supervised learning technique applied to planar robot casting
Over the next few decades, robots could be introduced into human environments, including homes, offices and retail spaces. Among other things, robotic systems could be used to tidy up spaces and make them safer for humans.
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Physical texture of robots influences judgments of their personality
Impressions of a robot's personality can be influenced by the way it looks, sounds and feels. But now, researchers from Japan have found specific causal relationships between impressions of robot personality and body texture.
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Computer Sciences
Study shows how machine learning could improve COVID-19 predictive models
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, case rates have ebbed and flowed in ways that have been hard for epidemiological models to predict. A new study by mathematicians from Brown University uses an advanced machine learning technique ...
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COVID-19 mobile robot could detect and tackle social distancing breaches
A new strategy to reduce the spread of COVID-19 employs a mobile robot that detects people in crowds who are not observing social-distancing rules, navigates to them, and encourages them to move apart. Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy ...
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Energy & Green Tech
A molecular platform for heterogeneous OER electrocatalysis based on double-atom catalysts
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a chemical reaction that enables the generation of oxygen gas. This reaction is crucial for producing fuels through water splitting or through the electroreduction of CO2.
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Energy & Green Tech
Hydrogen produced from offshore wind in China can help Japan reach its greenhouse gas emissions goals
Japan's Green Growth Strategy signals a commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050—and hydrogen produced from renewable energy can play an important role in this shift. A team of researchers from Harvard University, ...
Dec 01, 2021
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Robotics
NeatNet: A model that can learn people's tidying up preferences
As robots become increasingly advanced and affordable, more people could start introducing them into their homes. Many roboticists have thus been trying to develop systems that can effectively assist humans with house chores, ...
Nov 30, 2021 feature
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Energy & Green Tech
An energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Batteries made from an electrically conductive mixture the consistency of molasses could help solve a critical piece of the decarbonization puzzle. An interdisciplinary team from MIT has found that an electrochemical technology ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists develop lead-absorbing tape to boost viability of rising star in solar power industry
Researchers at Northern Illinois University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, are reporting a potential breakthrough that could help speed commercialization ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Using artificial intelligence to advance energy technologies
Hongliang Xin, an associate professor of chemical engineering in the College of Engineering, and his collaborators have devised a new artificial intelligence framework that can accelerate discovery of materials for important ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists discover way to improve perovskite efficiency and stability
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and affiliated institutions across the country have bolstered the efficiency of perovskite solar cells by as much as 16%.
Nov 30, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Mitigating damage caused by adding electrical contacts to sensitive semiconductors
Damage from adding electrical contacts to sensitive semiconductors can be mitigated using a buffer layer and optimized deposition.
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