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November 24, 2024

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Synchronized Movement Between Robots and Humans Builds Trust, Study Finds

Nov. 20, 2024 — Trust between humans and robots is improved when the movement between both is harmonized, researchers have ...

New Method of Generating Eco-Friendly Energy

Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method of growing organic crystals that can be used for energy-harvesting ...

Leaner Large Language Models Could Enable Efficient Local Use on Phones and Laptops

Nov. 18, 2024 — Researchers have introduced a technique for compressing a large language model's reams of data, which could increase privacy, save energy and lower costs. The new algorithm works by trimming ...

Bluetooth Technology Unlocks Urban Animal Secrets

Nov. 13, 2024 — Mobile phones could be the key to a cheaper and more reliable way of tracking animals for ecology and conservation research, according to a new ...

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New Material to Make Next Generation of Electronics Faster and More Efficient

Nov. 8, 2024 — Researchers have created a new material that will be pivotal in making the next generation of high-power electronics faster, transparent and more ...

Could Crowdsourcing Hold the Key to Early Wildfire Detection?

Nov. 7, 2024 — Computer science researchers have developed a new crowdsourcing system that dramatically slashes wildfire mapping time from hours to seconds using a network of low-cost mobile phones mounted on ...

AI-Driven Mobile Robots Team Up to Tackle Chemical Synthesis

Nov. 6, 2024 — Researchers have developed AI-driven mobile robots that can carry out chemical synthesis research with extraordinary efficiency. Researchers show how mobile robots that use AI logic to make decisions ...

Quantum Simulator Could Help Uncover Materials for High-Performance Electronics

Oct. 30, 2024 — Researchers created a synthetic magnetic field using a superconducting quantum processor, which could enable them to precisely study complex ...

Smart Sensor Patch Detects Health Symptoms Through Edge Computing

Oct. 30, 2024 — Edge computing on a smartphone has been used to analyze data collected by a multimodal flexible wearable sensor patch and detect arrhythmia, coughs and ...

Towards Implementing Neural Networks on Edge IoT Devices

Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new binarized neural network (BNN) scheme using ternary gradients to address the computational challenges of IoT edge devices. They introduced a magnetic RAM-based ...

Non-Electric Touchpad Takes Sensor Technology to Extreme Conditions

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers have developed the world's first soft touchpad that can sense the force, area and location of contact without electricity. The device utilizes pneumatic channels, enabling its use in ...

From Accessibility Upgrades to a Custom Cat-Food Bowl, This Mobile 3D Printer Can Autonomously Add Features to a Room

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers created MobiPrint, a mobile 3D printer that can automatically measure a room and print objects onto the floor. The team's graphic ...

New Method of Flexing on Electronics

Oct. 24, 2024 — If a phone or other electronic device was made of soft materials, how would that change its use? Would it be more durable? If hospital health monitoring equipment was made of less rigid components, ...

A Multi-Level Breakthrough in Optical Computing

Oct. 23, 2024 — Until now, researchers have been limited in developing photonic memory for AI processing -- gaining one important attribute like speed while sacrificing another like energy usage. An international ...

Soft Microelectronics Technologies Enabling Wearable AI for Digital Health

Oct. 22, 2024 — Developing edge-computing and AI capabilities from wearable sensors enhances their intelligence, critical for the AI of Things, and reduces power consumption by minimizing data exchange between ...

New Diamond Bonding Technique a Breakthrough for Quantum Devices

Oct. 16, 2024 — A paper has solved a major hurdle facing researchers working with diamond by creating a novel way of bonding diamonds directly to materials that integrate easily with either quantum or conventional ...

Engineers Set New Record on How Fast Data Can Be Sent Wirelessly

Oct. 16, 2024 — A new world record in wireless transmission, promising faster and more reliable wireless communications, has been set by researchers. The total bandwidth of 145GHz is more than five times higher than ...

New App Performs Real-Time, Full-Body Motion Capture With a Smartphone

Oct. 15, 2024 — Engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture -- and it doesn't require specialized rooms, expensive equipment, bulky cameras or an array of sensors. Instead, it requires ...

Mental Health App Could Help Prevent Depression in Young People at High Risk

Oct. 8, 2024 — A cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) app has been found to significantly prevent increases in depression in young people who are at high risk -- and could be implemented as a cost effective public ...

New Apps Will Enable Safer Indoor Navigation for Visually Impaired

Oct. 8, 2024 — Two new apps will enable blind people to navigate indoor buildings with spoken directions from a smartphone app, providing a safe method of wayfinding where GPS doesn't ...

Logic With Light: Introducing Diffraction Casting, Optical-Based Parallel Computing

Oct. 3, 2024 — Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

Feet First: AI Reveals How Infants Connect With Their World

Oct. 1, 2024 — Researchers explored how infants act purposefully by attaching a colorful mobile to their foot and tracking movements with a Vicon 3D motion capture system. The study tested AI's ability to ...

Shrinking AR Displays Into Eyeglasses to Expand Their Use

Sep. 25, 2024 — Augmented reality (AR) takes digital images and superimposes them onto real-world views. But AR is more than a new way to play video games; it could transform surgery and self-driving cars. To make ...

Improving Eye Tracking to Assess Brain Disorders

Sep. 16, 2024 — Using piezoelectricity, an engineering team developed wearable sensors to examine eye movement to assess brain disorders or damage to the ...

A New App to 'Uncuff' Blood Pressure Monitoring

Sep. 12, 2024 — Researchers have developed a groundbreaking smartphone app that measures blood pressure using a smartphone's built-in sensors, eliminating the need for traditional cuffs. This technology can ...

Smartphone-Based Microscope Rapidly Reconstructs 3D Holograms

Sep. 11, 2024 — Researchers developed a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that enables precision 3D measurements. The highly portable and inexpensive microscope could help bring 3D measurement ...

Researchers Develop a Stretchable, Wearable Device That Lights Up an LED Using Only the Warmth of Your Skin

Sep. 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed a flexible, durable electronic prototype that can harvest energy from body heat and turn it into electricity that can be used to power small electronics, such as batteries, ...

Solving a Memristor Mystery to Develop Efficient, Long-Lasting Memory Devices

Sep. 10, 2024 — Phase separation, when molecules part like oil and water, works alongside oxygen diffusion to help memristors -- electrical components that store information using electrical resistance -- retain ...

Mathematical Proof: Five Satellites Needed for Precise Navigation

Sep. 6, 2024 — What is the shortest route to the next stop or the agreed meeting point? Global positioning systems (GPS) have become a routine part of everyday life for most people. Until now, however, the minimum ...

A Sensory Pen Which Can Read Braille Could Improve Literacy Amongst the Visually Impaired

Sep. 3, 2024 — A pen which can transform Braille into English text has been ...

Silicon Chip Propels 6G Communications Forward

Aug. 29, 2024 — A team of scientists has unlocked the potential of 6G communications with a new polarization multiplexer. This allows multiple data streams to be transmitted simultaneously over the same frequency ...

Molecular Wires With a Twist

Aug. 20, 2024 — Researchers have developed molecular wires with periodic twists. By controlling the lengths of regions between twists, the electrical conductivity of individual polymer chains can be enhanced. This ...

How Air-Powered Computers Can Prevent Blood Clots

Aug. 14, 2024 — A new, air-powered computer sets off alarms when certain medical devices fail. The invention is a more reliable and lower-cost way to help prevent blood clots and strokes -- all without electronic ...

Turning Unused Signals Such as Wi-Fi Into Energy for Electronics

Aug. 7, 2024 — We are constantly surrounded by electromagnetic waves such as Wi-Fi. Researchers tested a device to convert this ambient energy into energy for electronic ...