Light-powered soft robots could suck up oil spills
Afloating, robotic film designed at UC Riverside could be trained to hoover oil spills at sea or remove contaminants from drinking water.
Dec 2, 2021
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Robotics
University of California - Riverside
The University of California-Riverside, (UCR) was established in 1954 and is one of the 10 University of California campuses. Today, UCR has approximately 18,000 undergraduate and graduate students. UCR pioneered work in biologic pesticides and is known for its research on citrus and entomology. UCR plans to open a new medical research and medical school by 2012.
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Robotics
Air-powered computer memory helps soft robot control movements
Engineers at UC Riverside have unveiled an air-powered computer memory that can be used to control soft robots. The innovation overcomes one of the biggest obstacles to advancing soft robotics: the fundamental mismatch between ...
Jul 16, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Optical pre-processing makes computer vision more robust and energy efficient
Image analysis is ubiquitous in contemporary technology: from medical diagnostics to autonomous vehicles to facial recognition. Computers that use deep-learning convolutional neural networks—layers of algorithms that process ...
Dec 14, 2020
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Security
DNS cache poisoning ready for a comeback
Agroup led by UC Riverside computer security researchers unveiled discovery of a series of critical security flaws that could lead to a revival of DNS cache poisoning attacks this week at the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on ...
Nov 11, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Upcycling plastic waste toward sustainable energy storage
What if you could solve two of Earth's biggest problems in one stroke? UC Riverside engineers have developed a way to recycle plastic waste, such as soda or water bottles, into a nanomaterial useful for energy storage.
Aug 12, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Fast-charging damages electric car batteries
Commercial fast-charging stations subject electric car batteries to high temperatures and high resistance that can cause them to crack, leak, and lose their storage capacity, write engineers at the University of California, ...
Mar 12, 2020
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Security
Machines whisper our secrets: Spies can learn what a machine is making from the sounds it makes
Lab instruments are important tools throughout research and health care. But what if those instruments are leaking valuable information?
Feb 25, 2019
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Security
New attacks on graphics processors endanger user privacy
Computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside have revealed for the first time how easily attackers can use a computer's graphics processing unit, or GPU, to spy on web activity, steal passwords, and break ...
Nov 5, 2018
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Engineering
Electromigration at normal operating temperatures causes integrated circuits to fail in hours instead of year
A University of California, Riverside engineer builds electronic circuits just to break them as quickly as possible. A research team led by Sheldon Tan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Bourns College ...
Jun 13, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
How greener grids can stay lit
Californians love renewable energy. In fact, California just became the first state to require solar panels on all new homes.
May 24, 2018
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