Engineering
Taking inspiration from nature, researchers from Princeton Engineering have improved crack resistance in concrete components by coupling architected designs with additive manufacturing processes and industrial robots that ...
Sep 2, 2024
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Robotics
Building a robot takes time, technical skill, the right materials—and sometimes, a little fungus.
Aug 28, 2024
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Robotics
A tiny battery designed by MIT engineers could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other applications such as locating leaks in gas pipelines.
Aug 15, 2024
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Robotics
A new algorithm may make robots safer by making them more aware of human inattentiveness. In computerized simulations of packaging and assembly lines where humans and robots work together, the algorithm developed to account ...
Aug 15, 2024
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Robotics
As global warming intensifies, people increasingly suffer from extreme heat. For those working in a high-temperature environment indoors or outdoors, keeping thermally comfortable becomes particularly crucial.
Aug 13, 2024
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Robotics
New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that programming robots to create their own teams and voluntarily wait for their teammates results in faster task completion, with the potential to improve manufacturing, ...
Aug 13, 2024
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Engineering
Common push puppet toys in the shapes of animals and popular figures can move or collapse with the push of a button at the bottom of the toys' base. Now, a team of UCLA engineers has created a new class of tunable dynamic ...
Aug 12, 2024
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Computer Sciences
A new research development, published in Nature Communications, from Queen Mary University of London paves the way for faster discovery of novel perovskite materials with desirable properties for applications in wireless ...
Aug 5, 2024
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150
Robotics
Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have developed a self-powered "bug" that can skim across the water, and they hope it will revolutionize aquatic robotics.
Jul 29, 2024
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Robotics
A new type of valve that makes soft robots more resilient to damage, has been developed by engineers at the University of Sheffield.
Jul 25, 2024
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