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April 22, 2021

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Pepper the Robot Talks to Itself to Improve Its Interactions With People

Ever wondered why your virtual home assistant doesn't understand your questions? Or why your navigation app took you on the side street instead of the highway? Researchers have now designed a robot ...

Bi-Stable Pop-Up Structures Inspired by Origami

Researchers have developed bi-stable inflatable structures inspired by ...

Helpful, Engineered 'Living' Machines in the Future?

Engineered, autonomous machines combined with artificial intelligence have long been a staple of science fiction, and often in the role of villain like the Cylons in the 'Battlestar Galactica' ...

New Infrastructure Approach Could Save Millions

As President Biden's $2 trillion American Jobs Plan places the nation's infrastructure in the spotlight, new research suggests states can save money and extend the life of their bridges by taking a ...
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Engineering Researchers Visualize the Motion of Vortices in Superfluid Turbulence

Researchers have managed to visualize the vortex tubes in a quantum fluid, findings that could help researchers better understand turbulence in quantum fluids and ...

All-in-One Device Uses Microwave Power for Defense, Medicine

An invention from innovators may provide a new option to use directed energy for biomedical and defense applications. The Purdue invention uses composite based nonlinear transmission lines (NLTLs) ...

Robots Can Be More Aware of Human Co-Workers, With System That Provides Context

A new context-aware system for robots is ready for implementation on the factory floor. A recent study shows the system is more efficient because it can recognize co-workers and their body shapes, ...

Silencing Vibrations in the Ground and Sounds Underwater

POSTECH professor Junsuk Rho's research team demonstrates artificial control of elastic waves and underwater sounds applicable as stealth ...

Elasticity to Position Microplates on Curved 2D Fluids

A team of polymer science and engineering researchers has demonstrated for the first time that the positions of tiny, flat, solid objects integrated in nanometrically thin membranes - resembling ...

Less Than a Nanometer Thick, Stronger and More Versatile Than Steel

Scientists report a breakthrough involving a material called borophane, a sheet of boron and hydrogen a mere two atoms in ...

Masks, Ventilation Stop COVID Spread Better Than Social Distancing, Study Shows

A new study suggests that masks and a good ventilation system are more important than social distancing for reducing the airborne spread of COVID-19 in classrooms. The research comes at a critical ...

Kirigami-Style Fabrication May Enable New 3D Nanostructures

A new technique that mimics the ancient Japanese art of kirigami may offer an easier way to fabricate complex 3D nanostructures for use in electronics, manufacturing and health ...

A Robot That Senses Hidden Objects

RF Grasp is a picking robot that combines vision with radio frequency (RF) sensing to find and grasps objects, even if they're hidden from view. The technology could aid fulfillment in ...

Even Without a Brain, Metal-Eating Robots Can Search for Food

This 'metal-eating' robot can follow a metal path without using a computer or needing a battery. By wiring the power-supplying units to the wheels on the opposite side, the robot ...

Scientists Create Next Gen Living Robots

Scientists up to create the next version of Xenobots - tiny biological robots that self-assemble, carry out tasks, and can repair themselves. Now they can move faster, and record ...

Micro-Environmental Influences on Artificial Micromotors

In a new experiment, researchers show for the first time how the velocities of Janus particles relate to the physical properties of nearby ...

Decellularized Spinach Serves as an Edible Platform for Laboratory-Grown Meat

Cost-efficient and environmentally friendly, a spinach leaf proves to be an edible platform upon which to grow cultured meat ...

Cervical Cancer Testing Tech Could Replace Pap Smears, Save Lives

Emerging technologies can screen for cervical cancer better than Pap smears and, if widely used, could save lives in areas where access to health care may be limited. In Biophysics Reviews, ...

New Early Warning System for Self-Driving Cars

A team of researchers has developed a new early warning system for vehicles that uses artificial intelligence to learn from thousands of real traffic situations. The results show that, if used in ...

Scientists Identify Virus-Cell Interaction That May Explain COVID-19's High Infection Rate

Researchers quantify the specific interaction between the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- with the ACE2 receptors in human cells that may partially explain its high ...

Six Novel Variants for CRISPR-Cas12a in Plants, Expanding Genome Engineering

Scientists innovate genome editing and engineering in plants, with the ultimate goal of improving the efficiency of food production. His new work contributes six novel variants of CRISPR-Cas12a in ...

Soft Robotic Dragonfly Signals Environmental Disruptions

Engineers have developed an electronics-free, entirely soft robot shaped like a dragonfly that can skim across the water and react to environmental conditions such as pH, temperature or the presence ...

'Climbing Droplets' Could Lead to More Efficient Water Harvesting

Researchers have discovered that a novel surface they developed to harvest water from the air encourages tiny water droplets to move spontaneously into larger droplets. When researchers placed ...

How Tiny Machines Become Capable of Learning

Living organisms, from bacteria to animals and humans, can perceive their environment and process, store and retrieve this information. They learn how to react to later situations using appropriate ...

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