UC Santa Cruz researchers worked with Structured Materials Industries to design and build an atomic layer deposition (ALD) system large enough to accommodate telescope mirrors. Andrew Phillips, Nobuhiko Kobayashi, and David Fryauf (l to r) examine the deposition chamber.
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ComText allows robots to understand contextual commands such as, “Pick up the box I put down.”
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Despite what you might see in movies, today's robots are still very limited in what they can do. They can be...
3D virtual model MRI view of fetus at 26 weeks.
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Parents may soon be able to watch their unborn babies grow in realistic 3-D immersive visualizations, thanks to new technology that transforms...
EPFL scientists are studying how to identify drivers’ emotions using embedded cameras that film their faces.
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Technology now allows us to read facial expressions and identify which of the seven universal...
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...
Panel used in study.
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It looks like a regular roof, but the top of the Packard Electrical Engineering Building at Stanford University has been the setting of many milestones in the development of an innovative cooling technology that...
The atomic structure of a tiny semiconductor is X-rayed.
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Researchers examining the flow of electricity through semiconductors have uncovered another reason these materials seem to lose their ability to carry a charge...
This is a schematic of the structural evolution of titanium disulfide at different stages of intercalation. Interlayers are expanded or distorted as different amounts of pillaring molecules, complex cations and solvents are intercalated into the van der Waals gap...
MIT researchers have developed a system that enables small, safe, aerial drones to read RFID tags in large warehouses at a distance of several meters, while identifying the tags’ locations with an average error of about 19...
Assistant professors Aimy Wissa and Sameh Tawfick, along with graduate student Alexander Pagano and undergraduates Tongxi Yan, and Brian Chien helped on the project.
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New research from a team of University of...
In work showing the potential to use a brain-computer interface and virtual avatar to treat people with gait disabilities, researchers collected data from eight healthy subjects, all of whom participated in three trials involving walking on a...
