Aqua-Fi: Underwater WiFi developed using LEDs and lasers
Aquatic internet that sends data through light beams could enable divers to instantly transmit footage from under the sea to the surface.
Jun 11, 2020
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A fairy-like robot flies by the power of wind and light
The development of stimuli-responsive polymers has brought about a wealth of material-related opportunities for next-generation small-scale, wirelessly controlled soft-bodied robots. For some time now, engineers have known ...
Jan 30, 2023
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The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off
Insect-sized flying robots could help with time-consuming tasks like surveying crop growth on large farms or sniffing out gas leaks. These robots soar by fluttering tiny wings because they are too small to use propellers, ...
May 15, 2018
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Boston Dynamics' latest video shows its Atlas humanoid robot has moves like Simone Biles
Boston Dynamics, the company known for its robotic dogs, now has a humanoid robot capable of doing gymnastics.
Aug 18, 2021
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Researchers hacked a robotic vacuum cleaner to record speech and music remotely
A team of researchers demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be remotely hacked to act as microphones.
Nov 18, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
A new method using nanowires can make solar panels much more efficient and much cheaper
A research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has developed a method for making an ultra-high material efficient solar cell using semiconductor nanowires. If this is placed on top of a traditional ...
Nov 5, 2021
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New device puts music in your head—no headphones required
Imagine a world where you move around in your own personal sound bubble. You listen to your favorite tunes, play loud computer games, watch a movie or get navigation directions in your car—all without disturbing those around ...
Nov 12, 2020
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Using AI to target a laser for killing roaches
A trio of researchers from Heriot-Watt University, University Paul Sabatier and the University of Sussex has developed an AI-based device equipped with a laser that can be used to shoot and kill roaches automatically. In ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
New kind of transistor could shrink communications devices on smartphones
One month after announcing a ferroelectric semiconductor at the nanoscale thinness required for modern computing components, a team at the University of Michigan has demonstrated a reconfigurable transistor using that material.
Mar 8, 2023
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Fabricating qubits using advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes
Quantum computers are promising computing machines that perform computations leveraging the collective properties of quantum physics states. These computers could help to tackle many computational problems that are currently ...
