Robotics
Topping out at less than a foot, Salto the robot looks like a Star Wars imperial walker in miniature. But don't be fooled by its size—this little robot has a mighty spring in its step. Salto can vault over three times its ...
May 21, 2019
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Engineering
With the growth of 3-D printing, it's entirely possible to 3-D print your own prosthetic from models found in open-source databases.
Apr 4, 2019
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Engineering
Two School of Engineering and Applied Science students designed a 3-D-printed system for optical mapping, a leading tool in cardiac electrophysiology used to study arrhythmia mechanisms. The system can be implemented for ...
Mar 15, 2019
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Computer Sciences
As artificial intelligence systems learn to better recognize and classify images, they are becoming highly-reliable at diagnosing diseases, such as skin cancer, from medical images. But as good as they are at detecting patterns, ...
Feb 25, 2019
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Robotics
Ever watch aquatic animals jump out of the water and wonder how they manage to do it in such a streamlined and graceful way? A group of researchers who specialize in water entry and exit in nature had the same question and ...
Nov 20, 2018
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Engineering
When a team of engineers went to work in 2015 looking for a new technique to boost the cost-effectiveness of solar cells, they didn't realize they'd end with a bonus – a way to help improve the collision avoidance systems ...
Oct 5, 2017
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Computer Sciences
The modern "smart" city, says Jie Liu, is a web of networks that should run like a healthy, well-tuned circulatory system.
Jul 14, 2017
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Computer Sciences
A webpage today is often the sum of many different components. A user's home page on a social-networking site, for instance, might display the latest posts from the users' friends; the associated images, links, and comments; ...
Mar 28, 2017
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Computer Sciences
When data sets get too big, sometimes the only way to do anything useful with them is to extract much smaller subsets and analyze those instead.
Dec 16, 2016
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Energy & Green Tech
(Tech Xplore)—A video showing "Bosch water injection" was posted on Wednesday to explain that Bosch has a water injection system featuring something called WaterBoost, for gasoline engines.
