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Robotics
Smallest walking robot makes microscale measurements
Cornell researchers in physics and engineering have created the smallest walking robot yet. Its mission: to be tiny enough to interact with waves of visible light and still move independently, so that it can maneuver to specific ...
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Researchers examine teens' use of generative AI, safety concerns
Teenagers use generative artificial intelligence for many purposes, including emotional support and social interactions. A study by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers found that parents have little understanding ...
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Proof-of-concept study demonstrates self-assembling electronics
Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for self-assembling electronic devices. The proof-of-concept work was used to create diodes and transistors, and paves the way for self-assembling more complex electronic devices ...
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Study introduces new approaches to engineer stable and robust perovskite solar cells
Perovskites are materials with advantageous optoelectronic properties that could be used to develop more affordable photovoltaics (PVs). While in recent years engineers were able to significantly improve the power-conversion ...
Engineering
Enhanced 3D electrode design stores electricity four times faster than before
A new 3D design for electrodes enables the Battolyser, a battery and electrolyzer in one, to store twice the amount of electricity it could previously hold and do so four times faster. Researchers from Delft University of ...
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Skin conductance offers a camera-free way to read emotions
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used measurements of skin conductance over time to tell emotions apart. Volunteers were shown videos depicting fearful scenes, family bonding, and humor, while their skin ...
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Computer Sciences
Machine learning helps uncover hidden consumer motivations
A common challenge for marketers is understanding and engaging with people who have "thin" data profiles, such as donors with little demographic information or brief interaction histories that leave organizations without ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Climate solution: Sails make a comeback in shipping, to dent its huge carbon footprint
Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he'd be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses the wind's clean energy to transport goods across ...
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Engineering
Strain engineering approach enhances performance of 2D semiconductor-based transistors
The manipulation of mechanical strain in materials, also known as strain engineering, has allowed engineers to advance electronics over the past decades, for instance enhancing the mobility of charge carriers in devices. ...
Energy & Green Tech
Balloon system can produce localized solar electricity for the ground below
A team of engineers and environmental scientists from Mälardalen University, in Sweden, Southwest Jiaotong University, in China and Guizhou University, also in China, has developed a balloon system for producing and delivering ...
Robotics
Novel framework can create egocentric human demonstrations for imitation learning
One of the most promising approaches to teaching robots how to complete manual tasks such as cleaning dishes or preparing food is known as imitation learning. End-to-end imitation learning typically entails training a deep ...
Engineering
Scientists synthesize color-changing semiconductor materials
Semiconductor materials known as 2D halide perovskites can be used in devices such as solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Scientists led by Assoc Prof Nripan Mathews of NTU's School of Materials Science and Engineering ...
Nov 29, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
New hydrovoltaic cell continuously generates electricity with little water and no sunlight
A team of engineers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has modified the approach used to generate electricity with a hydrovoltaic cell, building one that uses little water and no sunlight. Their study is published in the ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Super-adhesive patches can adapt to different motions for enhanced skin interaction
A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled an ultra-strong adhesive patch platform that adheres effectively to rough skin surfaces and shows remarkable motion adaptiveness during dynamic body movements, all while ...
Nov 29, 2024
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Engineering
Engineering ultrafast exciton dynamics to boost organic photovoltaic performance
A team of researchers led by Professor Philip C.Y. Chow from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has revealed how the structure of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials affects their ...
Nov 29, 2024
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