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Engineering
Cutting the complexity from digital carpentry: System turns simple sketches into digital schematics
Many products in the modern world are in some way fabricated using computer numerical control (CNC) machines, which use computers to automate machine operations in manufacturing. While simple in concept, the ways to instruct ...
Apr 25, 2025
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Generative AI masters the art of scent creation
Addressing the challenges of fragrance design, researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) have developed an AI model that can automate the creation of new fragrances based on user-defined scent descriptors. ...
Apr 23, 2025
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New electronic 'skin' could enable lightweight night-vision glasses
MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin "skins" of electronic material. The method could pave the way for new classes of electronic devices, such as ultrathin wearable sensors, flexible transistors ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Engineered metamaterial achieves both high strength and remarkable flexibility
In metamaterials design, the name of the game has long been "stronger is better." Metamaterials are synthetic materials with microscopic structures that give the overall material exceptional properties. A huge focus has been ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Engineering
Transforming flat-to-shape objects using sewing technology
Researchers from the Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University introduced a novel method for fabricating functional flat-to-shape objects using a computer-controlled ...
Apr 22, 2025
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Telecom
New quantum-based navigation system 50 times more accurate than traditional GPS
A team of researchers at Q-CTRL, a quantum infrastructure software-maker based in Sydney, Australia, has announced the successful demonstration of its newly developed quantum navigation system called "Ironstone Opal."
Apr 21, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Ink engineering approach boosts efficiency and cuts cost of quantum dot-based photovoltaics
Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are tiny semiconductor particles that are just a few nanometers in size, which are synthesized in a liquid solution (i.e., colloid). These single-crystal particles, created by breaking down bulk ...
Consumer & Gadgets
A wearable smart insole can track how you walk, run and stand
A new smart insole system that monitors how people walk in real time could help users improve posture and provide early warnings for conditions from plantar fasciitis to Parkinson's disease.
Apr 17, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Mimosa seed bio-piezoelectric device functions as self-charging supercapacitor with high efficiency
Most energy generators currently employed within the electronics industry are based on inorganic piezoelectric materials that are not bio-compatible and contribute to the pollution of the environment on Earth. In recent years, ...
Energy & Green Tech
A step toward harnessing clean energy from falling rainwater
When two materials come into contact, charged entities on their surfaces get a little nudge. This is how rubbing a balloon on the skin creates static electricity. Likewise, water flowing over some surfaces can gain or lose ...
Apr 16, 2025
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Engineering
Living fungus-based building material repairs itself for over a month
Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results, published in Cell Reports Physical Science, show that this material—which is manufactured with ...
Apr 16, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Self-healing lithium battery stretches, survives punctures and cuts
A multidisciplinary team at the University of California, Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a stretchable, self-healing lithium battery that ...
Engineering
Ambisonics algorithm helps create rich virtual soundscapes using a domed array of loudspeakers
Surround-sound speakers can immerse you in a multimedia experience, but what if there was a speaker that could completely re-create a three-dimensional soundscape?
Apr 15, 2025
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Engineering
Wearable AI system helps blind people navigate
A wearable system designed to assist navigation for blind and partially sighted people is presented in a study published in Nature Machine Intelligence. This system uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to survey the ...
Apr 14, 2025
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Robotics
Robotics meets the culinary arts
RoboCake is ready. This edible robotic cake is the result of a collaboration between researchers from EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute ...
Apr 14, 2025
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Photonic computing needs more nonlinearity: Acoustics can help
Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term "neural" describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in our brains. To be able ...
Apr 14, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
A fluid battery that can take any shape
Using electrodes in a fluid form, researchers at Linköping University have developed a battery that can take any shape. This soft and conformable battery can be integrated into future technology in a completely new way. ...
Apr 11, 2025
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Japanese firms build 3D-printed train station in a week
Japanese companies have built what they call the world's first 3D-printed train station, a compact white curved-roof structure installed in a rural western region.
Apr 11, 2025
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Software
Transforming real-world doors into gateways to the virtual world: The future of mixed reality
People seeking to feel fully immersed in virtual environments will soon be able to experience a revolutionary approach to spatial computing that bridges the gap between real and digital worlds. A collaborative research team ...
Apr 11, 2025
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Engineering
Augmented reality improves carpentry ease and precision
A system developed at EPFL uses augmented reality (AR) to help carpenters make extremely precise timber cuts without having to measure or mark up beams. Its hybrid approach stands to make digitally assisted technology affordable ...
Apr 11, 2025
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Robotics
Text2Robot platform leverages generative AI to design and deliver functional robots with just a few spoken words
When personal computers were first invented, only a small group of people who understood programming languages could use them. Today, anyone can look up the local weather, play their favorite song or even generate code with ...
Apr 10, 2025
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Telecom
Invisible beams of light above Eindhoven provide super-fast wireless data transfer
Researchers from TU/e have transmitted data between the TU/e campus and the High Tech Campus over a 4.6 km distance using infrared light. This happened at the astonishing rate of 5.7 terabits per second, the equivalent of ...
Apr 10, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Diminished reality: Making objects disappear in real time in live recordings
Researchers at the Institute of Visual Computing have made it possible to remove objects from live recordings of three-dimensional environments without time delay while the camera remains in motion.
Apr 10, 2025
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Computer model that 'thinks' like a missing person could help search and rescue efforts
A new method of predicting where people lost in the wilderness may be found based on simulations of their decision-making processes could help mountain rescue teams save lives in the future.
Apr 10, 2025
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