Engineering
Someone taps your shoulder. The organized touch receptors in your skin send a message to your brain, which processes the information and directs you to look left, in the direction of the tap. Now, Penn State and U.S. Air ...
Aug 24, 2022
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Robotics
In recent years, roboticists have developed a wide variety of robotic systems with different body structures and capabilities. Most of these robots are either made of hard materials, such as metals, or soft materials, such ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Flexible electronics have enabled the design of sensors, actuators, microfluidics and electronics on flexible, conformal and/or stretchable sublayers for wearable, implantable or ingestible applications. However, these devices ...
Aug 18, 2022
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Robotics
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, the director of the Continuum Robotics Lab at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and her team are building very slender, flexible and extensible robots, a few millimeters in diameter, for use in ...
Aug 12, 2022
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Robotics
Soft robots that can complete tasks with high efficiency, accuracy and precision could have numerous valuable applications. For instance, they could be introduced in medical settings, helping doctors to carry out complex ...
Computer Sciences
With the strengthening of global anti-terrorist measures, it is increasingly important to conduct security checks in public places to detect concealed objects carried on the human body.
Jul 26, 2022
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Hardware
Wearable displacement sensors—which are attached to a human body, detect movements in real time and convert them into electrical signals—are currently being actively studied. However, research on tensile-capable displacement ...
Jul 15, 2022
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Engineering
High-frequency wireless communication systems such as 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) and beyond are of particular interest to consumers as they can deliver data with extremely high speed and provide an upgraded experience to ...
Jul 6, 2022
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Engineering
One of the biggest noise nuisances in homes arises from people simply moving around their homes. In particular, this can be quite disturbing for people living in buildings where adjoining homes have traditional wooden floors. ...
Jul 5, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The team led by Professor Lee Jung-hyup of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has developed an integrated circuit system converting analog signals into digital signals that can obtain all kinds ...
Jul 1, 2022
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