Miniaturizing the Soft Robotic Actuator to One Centimeter
A team of researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia's Bioinspired Soft Robotics Laboratory has developed a new pleat-based soft robotic actuator that can be...
Activating Disposable Paper Battery with Water
A water-activated disposable paper battery is presented in a proof-of-principle. It could be used to power a wide range of low-power, single-use disposable electronics—such...
Making AI Smarter
Researchers have designed an AI machine learning method that can predict the structure of new materials with five times the efficiency of the current...
Stickers that can see Inside the Body Through Ultrasound Imaging
Ultrasound imaging is a safe and noninvasive window into the body's workings, providing clinicians with live images of a patient's internal organs. To capture...
Copper 3D Printing with Sub-micron Resolution
High-quality data transmission, high-precision information sensing, and high-sensitivity signal detection are important means to achieve precise perception and effective identification. High-performance chips, terahertz transmission...
Breakthrough in Rechargeable Silicon Batteries
A team of researchers from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology has developed a proof-of-concept for novel rechargeable silicon (Si) batteries, as well as its...
Sweating on Command with Artificial Skin
Following the breakthrough with their first sweating artificial skin two years ago, Danqing Liu's multidisciplinary team hasn't been sitting still. Their goal: artificial skin...
Taking Safety of Autonomous Vehicles to Next Level
Researchers at Ulm University in Germany have recently developed a new framework that could help to make self-driving cars safer in urban and highly...
Ameliorating Image Sensors for Machine Vision
Image sensors measure light intensity, but the angle, spectrum, and other aspects of light must also be extracted to significantly advance machine vision.
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New Optoelectronic Functionalities using Large-scale Computations
Assembling Lego-like, 2D heterostructures can give rise to emergent properties and functionalities very different from the intrinsic characteristics of the constituents.
Density functional theory (DFT)-based...
