An interactive design tool developed by Carnegie Mellon University was used to design and test in simulation two robots that were then produced using off-the-shelf components and 3-D-printed parts.
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A new interactive design tool developed by Carnegie...
This image shows the fabrication steps from raw circular filament to a fully functional bending artificial muscle. The bottom filament is a raw circular filament. Researchers press the filament using a rolling mill (the second sample from the bottom)....
Silicon carbide power devices, like the one shown here, are more efficient than their silicon counterparts.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University are rolling out a new manufacturing process and chip design for silicon carbide (SiC) power...
Wearing a virtual reality headset, a researcher tries out the Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience, a new VR science education tool. (Image credit: Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab)
Free science education software, available to anyone with virtual reality gear, holds promise...
The findings demonstrate silent, eyes-free text entry on a mobile device without a keyboard (participants touched on Glass's touchpad to enter Morse code during quizzes). Many mobile or wearable devices cannot accommodate a full keyboard, so it is a...
The world is a big place, but it's gotten smaller with the advent of technologies that put people from across the globe in the palm of one's hand. And as the world has shrunk, it has also demanded that...
Dr Geoff Campbell and Mr Jesse Everett. Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU
Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have brought quantum computing a step closer to reality by stopping light in a new experiment.
Lead researcher Jesse Everett said controlling the...
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have developed a low-cost method of turning a wide variety of surfaces into touchpads, such as this steering wheel.
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Touch sensing is most common on small, flat surfaces such...
Researchers at MIT have developed a device and software that could figure out exactly how much power is being used by every appliance, lighting fixture, and device in a home, with pinpoint accuracy and at low cost.Photo: Bryce Vickmark
New...
Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, center, and co-first authors Xu Wang, left, and Kyoseung Sim, right).
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Researchers from the University of Houston and China have reported a...
A team of scientists developed Internet Atlas, the first detailed map of the internet's structure worldwide. The lines represent crucial pieces of the physical infrastructure of the internet that billions of people rely on.
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Despite the...
