Location: Cambridge, United States
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of
swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real
thing, if not quite as fast.
Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL) are working on a better way to handle supplies in a war zone: a
semi-autonomous forklift that can be directed by people safely away from the
dangers of the...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
High blood pressure is a common risk factor for heart attacks, strokes and
aneurysms, so diagnosing and monitoring it are critically important. However,
getting reliable blood pressure readings is not always easy.
Visits to the...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Devices can help children with
brain injuries learn to grasp and manipulate objects
Over the past few years, MIT engineers have successfully tested robotic
devices to help stroke patients learn to control their arms and...
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Location: California, United States
Abstract :
As robots designed to operate underwater become more common, it is useful to look at ways to make them more efficient. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) carry their power source with them, so improving the efficiency of the...
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Location: Pisa, Italy
Researchers are looking to put micro-robots to work as internal surgeons. The hope is that some of these tablet-shaped robots could perform certain gastrointestinal operations without injuring the patient's body. The process
would begin with...
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Location: London, United Kingdom
It may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers striving to produce a machine at least in some respects equal with a human.
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Gecko feet have long been a source of inspiration to scientists striving to make superstrong, reusable adhesives. Now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found a new way to make such an adhesive grip and release as
required, using...
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Location: Toulouse, France
Over the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth in computing over the next 60?...
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Location: Georgia, United States
For years, materials scientists have been trying to catch up with geckos. Adhesives that, like gecko feet, are dry, powerful, reusable, and self-cleaning could help robots climb walls or hold together electrical components, even in the harsh...
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Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Usually accurate, but GPS can be wrong in some circumstances: dense urban environment, tunnels, interference waves, etc.. To resolve this problem, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have developed a method, using an omnidirectional...
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Location: Institute for NanoScience and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, United States
University of
Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that certain organic—or
carbon-based—molecules exhibit the properties of atoms under certain
circumstances and, in...
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Location: American Chemical Society (ACS), United States
Nanotechnology is now available in a store near you. Valued
for it’s antibacterial and odor-fighting properties, nanoparticle silver is
becoming the star attraction in a range of products from socks to bandages to
washing...
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Location: University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Emerging computer technologies will change our lives for the
better by 2020. But we need to retain control to ensure that these developments
do not impact negatively on basic human values, according to a new report...
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Location: University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
An international team of astronomers has found 10 new “extra
solar” planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a
system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these
other...
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Location: Center for Healthcare Robotics in the Health Systems Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Robots are fluent in their native language of 1 and 0
absolutes but struggle to grasp the nuances and imprecise nature of human
language. While scientists are making slow, incremental progress in their quest
to create a...
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Location: Stanford University, United States
The camera you own has one main lens and produces a flat,
two-dimensional photograph, whether you hold it in your hand or view it on your
computer screen. On the other hand, a camera with two lenses (or two cameras
placed...
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Location: School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States
For centuries, engineers have bent and torn metals to test
their strength and ductility. Now, materials scientists at the
University of Pennsylvania
School of Engineering...
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate
three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the
texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or
touch-based,...
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Location: Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory, Uruguay
Scientists have discovered that the magnetic strength of magnetite—the most
abundant magnetic mineral on Earth—declines drastically when put under
pressure. Researchers from the Carnegie...
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