Innovations

Technology

Unique Technology Gives Humans a Leg Up on Walking

ELE Times Research Desk - June 1, 2021

An exoskeleton designed by Queen's Engineering researchers that improves walking efficiency is the subject of a new study featured in the leading academic journal Science. The...

Consumer

Sony Launches Motion-Sensing Music Effects Controller, Motion Sonic

ELE Times Research Desk - June 1, 2021

A long time in the making, Sony has just announced the upcoming release of Motion Sonic, a new technology that allows music lovers to...

Trends and Forecast

Scientists Look to Capture Clean Energy from Our Clothing

ELE Times Research Desk - June 1, 2021

Could a jacket or a pair of jeans one day power your mobile phone and other electronic devices? This is the aim of a multi-disciplined...

Electronics

Scientists One Step Closer to Cheap Flexible Electronics, NUST MISIS Reports

ELE Times Research Desk - May 31, 2021

Flexible electronics is a technology that allows you to build electronic circuits on flexible substrates thus making them bendable and stretchable. Currently, indium-tin-oxide (ITO)...

Artificial Intelligence

New AI-Powered Deep Learning Model to Support Medical Diagnostics

ELE Times Research Desk - May 29, 2021

A new deep-learning model can learn to identify diseases from medical scans faster and more accurately, according to new research by a team of...

Automation and Robotics

A Helping Hand for Working Robots

ELE Times Research Desk - May 29, 2021

Until now, competing types of robotic hand designs offered a trade-off between strength and durability. One commonly used design, employing a rigid pin joint...

Automation and Robotics

A Robotic Plankton Sniffer Dog

ELE Times Research Desk - May 28, 2021

Marine phytoplankton, or plant plankton, are incredibly important to life on Earth. As they go about their work of turning sunlight into energy, they...

Automation and Robotics

Researchers Create Robot that Smiles Back

ELE Times Research Desk - May 28, 2021

While our facial expressions play a huge role in building trust, most robots still sport the blank and static visage of a professional poker...

Simulation and Software

Microsoft Announces First Product Features Running on GPT-3

ELE Times Research Desk - May 28, 2021

During its Build developers conference this year, Microsoft announced its first features for a product fueled by GPT-3, the natural language model from OpenAI...

Automation and Robotics

The Path to More Human-Like Robot Object Manipulation Skills

ELE Times Research Desk - May 27, 2021

What if a robot could organize your closet or chop your vegetables? A sous chef in every home could someday be a reality. Still, while...

Battery and Energy Storage

Novel Heterostructure Nanosheet Boosts Efficiency of Lean-Electrolyte Lithium Batteries

ELE Times Research Desk - May 27, 2021

Lithium sulfur (Li-S) battery technology is promising for next-generation energy storage. However, lithium polysulfide shuttling, sluggish redox kinetics, and uncontrollable lithium dendrite growth limit...

LED and Lighting

New Prototype LED Lightbulb Emits Less of that Troublesome Blue Light

ELE Times Research Desk - May 26, 2021

LED lightbulbs offer considerable advantages over other types of lighting. Being more efficient, they require much less electricity to operate. They do not give...

More Efficient Lidar Sensing for Self-Driving Cars

ELE Times Research Desk - May 26, 2021

If you see a self-driving car out in the wild, you might notice a giant spinning cylinder on top of its roof. That's a...

Automation and Robotics

The MIT Humanoid Robot: A Dynamic Robotic that can Perform Acrobatic Behaviors

ELE Times News - May 25, 2021

Creating a robot that can perform acrobatic movements such as flips or spinning jumps can be highly challenging. Typically, in fact, these robots require...

Consumer