Robotics
People rarely use just one sense to understand the world, but robots usually only rely on vision and, increasingly, touch. Carnegie Mellon University researchers find that robot perception could improve markedly by adding ...
Aug 14, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
(Tech Xplore)—There are things that are unique about you—and researchers are eager to turn those things into identification tools. They are even listening to the unique sound of the person's skull. To be sure, researchers ...
Engineering
A miniaturised version of a musical instrument that could be used to improve the quality of medical images has been manufactured by researchers at the University of Strathclyde.
Nov 8, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Engineers in Melbourne have used sound waves to boost production of green hydrogen by 14 times, through electrolysis to split water.
Dec 12, 2022
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Engineering
Harvard University researchers have developed a new printing method that uses sound waves to generate droplets from liquids with an unprecedented range of composition and viscosity. This technique could finally enable the ...
Aug 31, 2018
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Engineering
Having trouble hearing? Just turn up your shirt. That's the idea behind a new "acoustic fabric" developed by engineers at MIT and collaborators at Rhode Island School of Design.
Mar 16, 2022
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Computer Sciences
EPFL researchers have developed an algorithm to train an analog neural network just as accurately as a digital one, enabling the development of more efficient alternatives to power-hungry deep learning hardware.
Dec 7, 2023
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Engineering
Smartwatches offer people a private method for getting notifications about their surroundings—such as a phone call, health alerts or an upcoming package delivery.
Oct 28, 2020
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Robotics
A team of robotic and acoustic engineers from the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, and Institut für Theoretische Physik, Center for Soft Nanoscience, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, ...
Computer Sciences
For robots to navigate the world, they need to be able to make reasonable assumptions about their surroundings and what might happen during a sequence of events.
Jun 13, 2016
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Sound is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.
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