New 'fabric' converts motion into electricity
Scientists at NTU Singapore have developed a stretchable and waterproof "fabric" that turns energy generated from body movements into electrical energy.
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Robotics
Soft robotic origami crawlers
Materials scientists aim to develop biomimetic soft robotic crawlers including earthworm-like and inchworm-like crawlers to realize locomotion via in-plane and out-of-plane contractions for a variety of engineering applications. ...
Engineering
Folding design leads to heart sensor with smaller profile
As advances in wearable devices push the amount of information they can provide consumers, sensors increasingly have to conform to the contours of the body. One approach applies the principles of kirigami to give sensors ...
Mar 29, 2022
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Robotic exoskeleton uses machine learning to help users with mobility impairments
Researchers from the RIKEN Guardian Robot Project and collaborators have used a combination of lightweight material engineering and artificial intelligence to create an exoskeleton robot that could help people with mobility ...
Mar 22, 2022
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Decoding brain signals to control a robotic arm
Researchers have developed a mind-reading system for decoding neural signals from the brain during arm movement. The method, described in the journal Applied Soft Computing, can be used by a person to control a robotic arm ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Energy-harvesting wearable device made from recycled waste
Wearable devices could soon be entirely made of recycled waste materials—and powered by human movement, thanks to a new energy-harvesting device developed at the University of Surrey.
Mar 3, 2022
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Humans interacting with robot found to mimic and synchronize with its movements
A team of researchers from Université de Cergy-Pontoise, the College of the Holy Cross and Montpellier University, has found that when humans interact with robots, they tend to synchronize their movements with it in ways ...
Business
Millionaires make unusual plea: 'Tax us now'
More than 100 millionaires made an unusual plea on Wednesday: "Tax us now".
Jan 19, 2022
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Robotics
Flexible skin patch provides haptic feedback from a human operator to a remotely operated robot
A team of researchers from City University of Hong Kong, Dalian University of Technology, Tsinghua University and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China has developed a flexible skin patch that can provide ...
Consumer & Gadgets
We all love using wireless earbuds. But how well do they work?
Working up a sweat and racing pulses are all in a day's work for researchers Tron Vedul Tronstad and Johannes Tjønnås. They've just reached the top after jogging up the long staircase outside NTNU's Science Building at ...
Jan 7, 2022
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