To make robots more cooperative and have them perform tasks in close proximity to humans, they must be softer and safer. A new actuator developed by a team led by George Whitesides, Ph.D. - who is a Core Faculty member at ...
Engineering
Jun 1, 2016
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Making the most of the low light in the muddy rivers where it swims, the elephant nose fish survives by being able to spot predators amongst the muck with a uniquely shaped retina, the part of the eye that captures light. ...
Engineering
Mar 14, 2016
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After more than half a decade of speculation, fabrication, modeling and testing, an international team of researchers led by Drexel University's Dr. Yury Gogotsi and Dr. Patrice Simon, of Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, ...
Engineering
Feb 11, 2016
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Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, may soon provide a foundation for antennas that can reconfigure themselves to operate at different frequencies, microfluidic devices whose properties can change in operation—and ...
Engineering
Jan 28, 2016
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Today, computer chips are built by stacking layers of different materials and etching patterns into them.
Engineering
Jan 28, 2016
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When engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, say they are going to make you sweat, it is all in the name of science.
Engineering
Jan 27, 2016
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What if you could make any object out of a flat sheet of paper? That future is on the horizon thanks to new research by L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary ...
Engineering
Jan 26, 2016
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Getting drones to fly around without hitting things is no small task. Obstacle-detection and motion-planning are two of computer science's trickiest challenges, because of the complexity involved in creating real-time flight ...
Engineering
Jan 19, 2016
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How thin can a camera be? Very, say Rice University researchers who have developed patented prototypes of their technological breakthrough.
Engineering
Nov 23, 2015
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Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have created analog and digital electronics circuits inside living plants. The group at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE), under the leadership of Professor Magnus ...
Engineering
Nov 20, 2015
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