Companies spell out guiding principles for autonomous cars to be safe
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Robotics
Robot transitions from soft to rigid
Even octopuses understand the importance of elbows. When these squishy, loose-limbed cephalopods need to make a precise movement—such as guiding food into their mouth—the muscles in their tentacles contract to create ...
May 2, 2018
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Engineering
New '4-D goggles' allow wearers to be 'touched' by approaching objects
A team of researchers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University has developed a pair of "4-D goggles" that allows wearers to be physically "touched" by a movie when they see a looming object on the screen, such as an ...
Feb 8, 2018
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Computer Sciences
Researchers in Japan are showing way to decode thoughts
Making news this month is a study by researchers the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Kyoto University in Japan, having built a neural network that not only reads but re-creates what ...
Computer Sciences
Computer scientist demonstrates 30-year-old theorem still best to reduce data and speed up algorithms
When we think about digital information, we often think about size. A daily email newsletter, for example, may be 75 to 100 kilobytes in size. But data also has dimensions, based on the numbers of variables in a piece of ...
Oct 19, 2017
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Engineering
Off-the-shelf, power-generating clothes are almost here: Scientists introduce coating that turns fabrics into circuits
A lightweight, comfortable jacket that can generate the power to light up a jogger at night may sound futuristic, but materials scientist Trisha Andrew at the University of Massachusetts Amherst could make one today. In a ...
May 23, 2017
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Engineering
Organ-on-a-chip mimics heart's biomechanical properties
The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime. Now scientists at Vanderbilt University have created a three-dimensional organ-on-a-chip that can mimic the heart's amazing biomechanical properties.
Feb 22, 2017
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Engineering
Researcher pursues synthetic scaffolds for muscle regeneration
The word "engineering" can bring to mind images of bridges, spacecraft and even particle colliders. But the human body could use assistance from engineers as well, especially when the natural processes that shape and govern ...
Dec 20, 2016
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Internet
Neural networks can mediate between download size and quality, according to researcher
Application data requirements vs. available network bandwidth have been the ongoing Battle of the Information Age, but now it appears that a truce is within reach, based on new research from NJIT Associate Professor Jacob ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Robotics
A novel method for easy and quick fabrication of biomimetic robots with life-like movement
Biomimetic robots, which mimic the movements and biological functions of living organisms, are a fascinating area of research that can not only lead to more efficient robots but also serve as a platform for understanding ...
Feb 26, 2024
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