Engineering News
May 27, 2025
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May 22, 2025 — Proteins catalyze life by changing shape when they interact with other molecules. The result is a muscle twitching, the perception of light, or a bit of energy extracted from food. The ability to engineer shapeshifting proteins opens new avenues for ...
May 27, 2025 — A research team has discovered ferroelectric phenomena occurring at a subatomic scale in the natural mineral ...
May 21, 2025 — Researchers have unveiled a breakthrough in solid-state cooling technology, doubling the efficiency of today's commercial systems. Driven by the Lab's patented nano-engineered thin-film thermoelectric materials and devices, this innovation paves the ...
May 20, 2025 — A metamaterial is a composite material that exhibits unique properties due to its structure, and now researchers have used one featuring a small sawtooth pattern on its surface to move and position objects underwater without touching them directly. ...
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May 19, 2025 — Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study. The study introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their ...
May 21, 2025 — Researchers have detailed the physics behind a phenomenon that allows them to create spin in liquid droplets using ultrasound waves, which concentrates solid particles suspended in the liquid. The ...
May 19, 2025 — Researchers have developed a novel framework named WildFusion that fuses vision, vibration and touch to enable robots to 'sense' and navigate complex outdoor environments much like humans ...
May 19, 2025 — A research team has developed a novel haptic device designed to enhance both safety and efficiency for workers in industrial ...
May 19, 2025 — Underwater or aerial vehicles with dimples like golf balls could be more efficient and maneuverable, a new prototype has ...
May 19, 2025 — A team was able to show that swimming movements are possible even without a central control unit. This not only explains the behavior of microorganisms, it could also enable nanobots to move in a ...
May 16, 2025 — Millions of years of evolution have enabled some marine animals to grow complex protective shells composed of multiple layers that work together to dissipate physical stress. In a new study, ...
May 16, 2025 — New research details how infrared thermography, high-definition imaging and neural network analysis can combine to make concrete bridge inspections ...
May 15, 2025 — In Project Chimera, a game lab combines a VR computer game with educational problems in order to convey scientific content in a motivating ...
May 15, 2025 — Found in knee replacements and bone plates, aircraft components, and catalytic converters, the exceptionally strong metals known as multiple ...
Earlier Headlines
May 14, 2025 — Scientists inspired by the octopus's nervous system have developed a robot that can decide how to move or grip objects by sensing its ...
May 14, 2025 — Researchers have developed a digital laboratory (dLab) system that fully automates the material synthesis and structural, physical property evaluation of thin-film samples. With dLab, the team can ...
May 13, 2025 — Engineers built E-BAR, a mobile robot designed to physically support the elderly and prevent them from falling as they move around their homes. E-BAR acts as a set of robotic handlebars that follows ...
May 13, 2025 — A robotic hand can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than ...
May 12, 2025 — Engineers have taught a simple submarine robot to take advantage of turbulent forces to propel itself through ...
May 12, 2025 — A team engineers created a twisty high-temperature heat exchanger that outperformed a traditional straight channel design in heat transfer, power density and effectiveness and used an innovative ...
May 9, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new way to create hydrogels using ultrasound, eliminating the need for toxic chemical initiators. This breakthrough offers a faster, cleaner and more sustainable approach ...
May 9, 2025 — A significant advancement in molecular engineering has produced a large, hollow spherical shell nanostructure through the self-assembly of peptides and metal ions, report researchers from Japan. This ...
May 9, 2025 — A team of researchers has developed a new strategy for identifying hazardous pollutants in soil -- even ones that have never been isolated or studied in a ...
May 8, 2025 — Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the ...
May 8, 2025 — Augmented-reality (AR) technology is rapidly finding its way into everyday life, from education and healthcare to gaming and entertainment. However, the core AR device remains bulky and heavy, making ...
May 8, 2025 — Global emissions of carbon dioxide from industry can be reduced by five per cent. But that requires companies and policy makers to take a holistic approach to energy efficiency and energy management ...
May 8, 2025 — A team of researchers has unveiled a cutting-edge Amphibious Robotic Dog capable of roving across both land and water with remarkable ...
May 8, 2025 — An edible robot leverages a combination of biodegradable fuel and surface tension to zip around the water's surface, creating a safe -- and nutritious -- alternative to environmental monitoring ...
May 8, 2025 — Researchers have developed a more efficient chip as an antidote to the vast amounts of electricity consumed by large-language-model artificial intelligence applications like Gemini and ...
May 7, 2025 — A research team develops disinfection robot combining physical wiping and UV-C ...
May 7, 2025 — Researchers have outlined a bold new roadmap for harnessing heterogeneous catalysis to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the so-called 'forever chemicals' that have ...
May 6, 2025 — While service robots with male characteristics can be more persuasive when interacting with some women who have a low sense of decision-making power, 'cute' design features -- such as big ...
May 6, 2025 — Recent artificial intelligence advances have largely focused on text, but AI increasingly shows promise in other contexts, including manufacturing and the service industry. In these sectors, targeted ...
May 6, 2025 — Researchers model the motions of groups of manta rays to study how group dynamics affect their propulsion, studying different formations of three manta rays: in tandem, in a triangular setup with one ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Handy Octopus Robot Can Adapt to Its Surroundings
- Digital Lab for Data And Robot-Driven Materials Science
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- Eldercare Robot Helps People Sit and Stand, and Catches Them If They Fall
- Robotic Hand Moves Objects With Human-Like Grasp
Monday, May 12, 2025
- Submarine Robot Catches an Underwater Wave
- Tapping a New Toolbox, Engineers Buck Tradition in New High-Performing Heat Exchanger
Friday, May 9, 2025
- Ultrasound Unlocks a Safer, Greener Way to Make Hydrogels
- Self-Assembly of a Large Metal-Peptide Capsid Nanostructure Through Geometric Control
- Machine Learning Powers New Approach to Detecting Soil Contaminants
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Ping Pong Bot Returns Shots With High-Speed Precision
- One Glass, Full Color: Sub-Millimeter Waveguide Shrinks AR Glasses
- How to Reduce Global CO2 Emissions from Industry
- Robotic Dog Mimics Mammals for Superior Mobility on Land and in Water
- Eco-Friendly Aquatic Robot Is Made from Fish Food
- New Chip Uses AI to Shrink Large Language Models' Energy Footprint by 50%
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Transforming Hospital Sanitation: Autonomous Robots for Wiping and UV-C Disinfection
- New Roadmap Advances Catalytic Solutions to Destroy 'forever Chemicals'
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
- Gender Characteristics of Service Robots Can Influence Customer Decisions
- How AI Tools Can Improve Manufacturing Worker Safety, Product Quality
- Do Manta Rays Benefit from Collective Motion?
Monday, May 5, 2025
- Robotic Touch Sensors Are Not Just Skin Deep
- A Big Data Approach for Battery Electrolytes
- Text-to-Video AI Blossoms With New Metamorphic Video Capabilities
- Privacy-Aware Building Automation
Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Model Governing Deformation of Materials Under Stress Challenged
- Researchers Develop a Novel Vote-Based Model for More Accurate Hand-Held Object Pose Estimation
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Rapid Lithium Extraction Eliminates Use of Acid and High Heat, Scientists Report
- Rare Earth Element Extraction Bolstered by New Research
Monday, April 28, 2025
- High-Wire Act: Soft Robot Can Carry Cargo Up and Down Steep Aerial Wires
- 'Wood You Believe It?' Engineers Fortify Wood With Eco-Friendly Nano-Iron
- Breakthrough Extends Fuel Cell Lifespan Beyond 200,000 Hours, Paving the Way for Clean Long-Haul Trucking
- A Neuro-Quantum Leap in Finding Optimal Solutions
Friday, April 25, 2025
Thursday, April 24, 2025
- Flying Robots Unlock New Horizons in Construction
- Combining Signals Could Make for Better Control of Prosthetics
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- Engineering a Robot That Can Jump 10 Feet High -- Without Legs
- 'Periodic Table of Machine Learning' Could Fuel AI Discovery
- Engineer Reinvents Ceramics With Origami-Inspired 3D Printing
- Material? Robot? It's a Metabot
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- RoboBee Comes in for a Landing
- Farm Robot Autonomously Navigates, Harvests Among Raised Beds
- A New Super Metal Stands Strong, No Matter the Temperature
- Bite-Sized Chunks of Chicken With the Texture of Whole Meat Can Be Grown in the Lab
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Explainable AI for Ship Navigation Raises Trust, Decreases Human Error
- Machine Learning Unlocks Superior Performance in Light-Driven Organic Crystals
Friday, April 11, 2025
- Light That Spirals Like a Nautilus Shell
- Engineered Bacteria Emit Signals That Can Be Spotted from a Distance
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- 3D Streaming Gets Leaner by Seeing Only What Matters
- A New Robotic Gripper Made of Measuring Tape Is Sizing Up Fruit and Veggie Picking
- Hopping Gives This Tiny Robot a Leg Up
- 3D-Printed Open-Source Robot Offers Accessible Solution for Materials Synthesis
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Researchers Watch a Single Catalytic Grain Do Work in Real Time
- Tiny, Soft Robot Flexes Its Potential as a Life Saver
Monday, April 7, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Nurture More Important Than Nature for Robotic Hand
- Carbon Capture Could Become Practical With Scalable, Affordable Materials
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Scientists Unveil Starfish-Inspired Wearable Tech for Heart Monitoring
- Transducer Could Enable Superconducting Quantum Networks
- Metamaterials: Highly Twisted Rods Store Large Amounts of Energy
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
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Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Breakthrough Copper Alloy Achieves Unprecedented High-Temperature Performance
- Researchers Find a Way to Shield Quantum Information from 'noise'
- A Lighter, Smarter Magnetoreceptive Electronic Skin
- Beyond Ambiguous Reflections: Bridging Optical 3D Metrology and Computer Vision
- Feeling the Future: New Wearable Tech Simulates Realistic Touch
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Mini Rolling Robot Takes Virtual Biopsies
- Virtual Reality Videos Increase Environmental Awareness
- Philosophy: Cultural Differences in Exploitation of Artificial Agents
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Eco-Friendly, Nylon-Like Plastic Using Microorganisms
- These Electronics-Free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer
- Listen to Quantum Atoms Talk Together Thanks to Acoustics
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Engineer Develops New Security Protocol to Protect Miniaturized Wireless Medical Implants from Cyberthreats
- Recycled Cements Drive Down Emissions Without Slacking on Strength
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Coffee-Making Robot Breaks New Ground for AI Machines
- Rapid Response to Address Critical Aging Aircraft Issue
- Revolutionary Blueprint to Fuse Wireless Technologies and AI
- Building a Safer Future: Strengthen Haiti's Earthquake Resilience
Monday, March 17, 2025
- From Order to Chaos: Understanding the Principles Behind Collective Motion in Bacteria
- RNA Origami: Artificial Cytoskeletons to Build Synthetic Cells
- Artificial Muscle Flexes in Multiple Directions, Offering a Path to Soft, Wiggly Robots
- Magnetic Microalgae on a Mission to Become Robots
Thursday, March 13, 2025
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Friday, March 7, 2025
- Stretching Spider Silk Makes It Stronger
- Security Veins: Advanced Biometric Authentication Through AI and Infrared
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Smart, Energy-Efficient Robot Grippers Cut Production Costs
- Touchless Tech: Control Fabrics With a Wave of Your Finger