Innovations

Vision Test for Autonomous Cars

The five-meter-long Lexus RX-450h leads a rather contemplative life at Empa. It never takes long trips. Instead, the SUV dutifully makes its rounds on...

Vertical Turbines could be The Future for Wind Farms

The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines....

Energy-Saving Gas Turbine from the 3D Printer

3D printing has opened up a completely new range of possibilities. One example is the production of novel turbine buckets. However, the 3D printing...

Researchers Develop a Robotic Guide Dog to Assist Blind Individuals

Guide dogs, dogs that are trained to help humans move through their environments, have played a critical role in society for many decades. These...

3D Holographic HUD could Improve Road Safety

Researchers have developed the first LiDAR-based augmented reality head-up display for use in vehicles. Tests on a prototype version of the technology suggest that...

AI Enabled Gaming Characters, Sony’s Latest Ace in the Hole

A recently published patent has revealed that the entertainment company Sony has managed to program artificial intelligence to help users customize their video game...

AR Tool that can Aid Human Agents

In recent years, computer scientists and roboticists have developed a variety of technological tools to aid human agents during critical missions, such as military...

Simple Robots, Smart Algorithms

Anyone with children knows that while controlling one child can be hard, controlling many at once can be nearly impossible. Getting swarms of robots...

Research Paves way for Improved Lasers, Communications

New photonics research paves the way for improved lasers, high-speed computing, and optical communications for the Army. Photonics has the potential to transform all manners...

Researchers Show Enhanced Electrode-Water Interactions in Metal-Free Aqueous Batteries

Batteries are a part of everyday modern life, powering everything from laptops, phones, and robot vacuums to hearing aids, pacemakers, and even electric cars....

Researchers Develop Smartphone-Powered Emergency Alert System

A team of computer science researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have created and tested a new, Bluetooth-based system for disseminating emergency...

Public Relations Scholar Explores the Use of AI-Driven Chatbots for PR

Building upon her background in corporate communication research, Public Relations Associate Professor Rita Men went into high gear during the pandemic to study effective...

IIT Kharagpur Launches COVIRAP Diagnostic Technology

IIT Kharagpur has successfully commercialised its flagship healthcare product COVIRAP the novel diagnostic technology to zero on infectious diseases including Covid-19, the institute said...

New AI Tool Calculates Materials’ Stress and Strain based on Photos

MIT researchers have developed a technique to quickly determine certain properties of a material, like stress and strain, based on an image of the...

Researchers Develop Chip that Improves Testing and Tracing for COVID-19

The University of New Mexico has developed a chip that provides a simpler and more rapid method of genome sequencing for viruses like COVID-19. Their...

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