Innovations

Artificial Intelligence

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

ELE Times Research Desk - April 27, 2021

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 and VR

AR Tool that can Aid Human Agents

ELE Times Research Desk - April 27, 2021

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

Automation and Robotics

Simple Robots, Smart Algorithms

ELE Times Research Desk - April 26, 2021

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

Photonics

Research Paves way for Improved Lasers, Communications

ELE Times Research Desk - April 24, 2021

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...

Battery and Energy Storage

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

ELE Times Research Desk - April 24, 2021

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

Consumer

Researchers Develop Smartphone-Powered Emergency Alert System

ELE Times Research Desk - April 24, 2021

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...

Artificial Intelligence

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

ELE Times Research Desk - April 24, 2021

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

Innovations

IIT Kharagpur Launches COVIRAP Diagnostic Technology

ELE Times News - April 24, 2021

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...

Artificial Intelligence

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

ELE Times Research Desk - April 23, 2021

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

Semiconductors and Chips

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

ELE Times Bureau - April 23, 2021

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...

Photonics

Study Paves the Way for New Photocatalysts Materials

ELE Times Research Desk - April 23, 2021

Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications, including air purification, water treatment, self-cleaning surfaces, pollution-fighting paints and coatings, hydrogen...

Battery and Energy Storage

Novel Approach to Revive Dead Lithium from Batteries

ELE Times Research Desk - April 23, 2021

Li-ion batteries and other emerging lithium-based battery technologies are currently used to power a wide range of devices, including smartphones, laptops, tablets, and cameras....

Industry

IEEFA: Finance needs to be at the centre of India’s ‘net zero’ discussion

ELE Times Research Desk - April 22, 2021

With U.S. climate envoy John Kerry’s visit to India a rumour of a potential net zero announcement by India is doing the rounds. A...

Innovations

Electrifying Cement with Nanocarbon Black

ELE Times Report - April 22, 2021

Since its invention several millennia ago, concrete has become instrumental to the advancement of civilization, finding use in countless construction applications—from bridges to buildings....