https://techxplore.com/ en-us Tech Xplore internet news portal provides the latest news on electronics, technology, and engineering. Most electronics are built on flat, stiff boards, which makes it incredibly difficult to fit them onto curved and irregular shapes we find in the real world, such as human limbs or curved aircraft wings. While flexible electronics have made some progress, they are often not durable enough or are too complex to manufacture for everyday use. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-method-electronic-circuits-irregular.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:00:04 EST news688229818 Across rural Zambia, small solar home systems and lanterns have transformed daily life. Between 2018 and 2022, more than 1 million small solar devices were sold across the country. These range from tiny solar lanterns to home kits capable of powering radios, TVs and phone chargers. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-cop30-zambia-forest-communities-solar.html Energy & Green Tech Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:32:05 EST news682597921 A humanoid robot gyrates to pulsing music at a shopping mall in Beijing, part of an exhibition harnessing artificial intelligence to enhance the flavor of China's biggest annual festival. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-tradition-technology-sync-china-ai.html Robotics Sat, 01 Feb 2025 05:00:09 EST news657608403 One bad apple may not spoil the whole bunch, but when it comes to distributing food, a lot of good goes out with the bad. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-food-wireless-sub-terahertz-band-fruit.html Engineering Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:45:04 EDT news615649501 With the rapid-paced rise of AI in everyday life, nothing, not even the traditional farmer, is untouched by the technology. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-farm-robots-ant-brains.html Robotics Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:19:34 EDT news615125967 A trio of roboticists at CREATE Lab, EPFL, in Switzerland, has designed, built and tested a robot that can pick raspberries. In their project, reported in the journal Communications Engineering, Kai Junge, Catarina Pires and Josie Hughes designed and tested their robot based on a new idea to reduce the cost of designing fruit-picking robots. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-fake-raspberries-robots-real.html Robotics Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:50:22 EDT news606991808 Scientists from the National Institute of Education/Nanyang Technological University of Singapore developed a method for converting fruit wastes such as coconut husks, orange peels, and banana peels into a solar absorber made of MXene for efficient water desalination process. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-recycling-fruit-solar-absorber-desalination.html Energy & Green Tech Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:03:32 EDT news598885407 One of the world's most important artificial materials is back in vogue because scientists are harnessing its properties for new and diverse future applications such as space navigation and farming. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-advances-material-vogue.html Electronics & Semiconductors Fri, 20 Jan 2023 04:17:44 EST news593410654 Light-weight and flying robots the size of small insects could have highly valuable real-world applications, for instance supporting search & rescue missions, inspections of hazardous sites, and even space exploration. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-gyroscope-free-efficiently-flight-insect-size-robots.html Robotics Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:30:01 EST news590065557 It's picking season at Christian Nachtwey's organic orchard in western Germany and laborers are loading their carts with ripe red Elstar apples, ready to be shipped to European supermarkets. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-sweet-german-farmer-trials-solar.html Energy & Green Tech Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:32:21 EDT news581225538 Recently, an article published in Horticulture Research proposed an in-field fruit counting method based on deep learning. The experiment was performed in two orange orchards in Meishan city in the Sichuan Province of China. The methods included the fruit detection algorithm OrangeYolo and the fruit tracking algorithm OrangeSort, which effectively enhanced the accuracy of citrus fruit counting. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-in-field-citrus-fruit-tracking-based.html Computer Sciences Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:40:02 EDT news579184801 Penn State agricultural engineers have developed, for the first time, a prototype "end-effector" capable of deftly removing unwanted apples from trees—the first step toward robotic, green-fruit thinning. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-agricultural-early-robotic-green-fruit-thinning.html Robotics Tue, 19 Jul 2022 09:30:07 EDT news577441800