Hardware
A team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has created a prototype system for detecting and geolocating damaged utility poles in the aftermath of natural disasters such as hurricanes.
Mar 14, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), often combined under the term 'extended reality (XR)', are increasingly losing their niche status and entering the mass market. Think of the metaverse, gaming, applications in industry ...
Mar 9, 2023
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Engineering
Sensing a hug from each other via the internet may be a possibility in the near future. A research team led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently developed a wireless, soft e-skin that can both detect and deliver ...
Feb 23, 2023
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Software
The University of Alicante (UA) Robotics and Three-Dimensional Vision Group (RoViT) has designed the first application capable of recognizing and interpreting the Spanish sign language alphabet (known by the acronym LSE) ...
Feb 16, 2023
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Hardware
An odor machine, so-called olfactometer, makes it possible to smell in VR environments. First up is a "wine tasting game" where the user smells wine in a virtual wine cellar and gets points if the guess on aromas in each ...
Oct 13, 2022
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Robotics
Since at least the time of inquiring minds like Plato, philosophers and scientists have puzzled over the question "What's so funny?" The Greeks attributed the source of humor to feeling superior at the expense of others. ...
Sep 15, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A new foundation model dubbed RingMo has been developed to improve the accuracy for remote sensing image interpretation, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Sep 9, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
The sense of smell is one of the basic senses of animal species. It is critical to finding food, realizing attraction, and sensing danger. Humans detect smells, or odorants, with olfactory receptors expressed in olfactory ...
Sep 5, 2022
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Robotics
A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed an artificial finger that was able to identify certain surface materials with 90% accuracy. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, ...
Aug 8, 2022 report
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Automotive
In recent years, more vehicles include partially autonomous driving features, such as blind spot detectors, automatic braking and lane sensing, which are said to increase safety. However, a recent study by researchers from ...
Jul 28, 2022
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