Engineering
A new interface developed by researchers in Bristol and Paris takes touch technology to the next level, by providing an artificial skin-like membrane for augmenting interactive devices such as phones, wearables or computers.
Oct 20, 2019
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Robotics
Imagine being able to build and use a robotic device without the need for expensive, specialist kit or skills. That is the vision that researchers from the University of Bristol have turned into reality, creating a lightweight, ...
Oct 20, 2019
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Robotics
A new 3-D-printed prosthetic hand can learn the wearers' movement patterns to help amputee patients perform daily tasks, reports a study published this week in Science Robotics.
Jun 27, 2019
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Computer Sciences
It's often easy to imagine balloons soaring or butterflies fluttering across a still image, but realizing this vision through computer animation is easier said than done. Now, a team of researchers has developed a new tool ...
Oct 24, 2018
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Hi Tech & Innovation
(Tech Xplore)—French scientists have worked on a speech synthesizer designed for people who have vocal cord paralysis. They have put nine sensors to work capturing lip movements, tongue, jaw, soft palate.
Consumer & Gadgets
Technology innovation requires solving hard technical problems, right? Well, yes. And no. As the Apple Macintosh turns 40, what began as Apple prioritizing the squishy concept of "user experience" in its 1984 flagship product ...
Jan 21, 2024
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Software
Researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) that has enabled a woman with severe paralysis from a brainstem stroke to speak through a digital avatar.
Aug 23, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
With its head-spinning size and connections, the power system is so complex that even supercomputers struggle to efficiently solve certain optimization problems. But quantum computers might fare better, and now researchers ...
Jul 18, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used increasingly in many different walks of life from the large language models and image-generation tools that can produce readable text and intriguing graphics based on a prompt to ...
May 31, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
A new study published in Computers in Human Behavior suggests that a placebo effect is at play when people expect their performance to be enhanced by augmentation technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI). The researchers ...
May 17, 2023
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