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Engineering
Hummingbird-inspired wings detect wind direction with 99% accuracy
Bio-inspired wind sensing using strain sensors on flexible wings could revolutionize robotic flight control strategy. Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have developed a method to detect wind direction with 99% ...
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New strategy significantly extends lithium-ion battery life by suppressing oxygen release
A research team has developed a strategy to enhance the durability of lithium-rich layered oxide (LLO) material, a next-generation cathode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). This breakthrough, which significantly ...
Dec 24, 2024
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Color shifts at nanoscale: Researchers develop real-time visualization system to observe stretchable technology
A research team at POSTECH has developed a breakthrough technology that analyzes in real-time the deformation of "serpentine" structures, a critical component of stretchable technology, and visualizes the process through ...
Dec 24, 2024
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Self-supervised machine learning adapts to new tasks without retraining
The field of machine learning is traditionally divided into two main categories: "supervised" and "unsupervised" learning. In supervised learning, algorithms are trained on labeled data, where each input is paired with its ...
Dec 23, 2024
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Robotics
Crossing the Uncanny Valley: Researchers develop technology for lifelike facial expressions in androids
Even if an android's appearance is so realistic that it could be mistaken for a human in a photograph, watching it move in person can feel a bit unsettling. It can smile, frown, or display other various, familiar expressions, ...
Dec 23, 2024
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Engineering
Nondestructive microwave radar finds moisture hiding inside a building's walls
For homeowners, moisture buildup can cause the biggest headaches. Mold grows on drywall and wood-based materials, creeping along walls, floors and ceilings. Building materials begin to erode and rot. As insulation becomes ...
Dec 23, 2024
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Internet
The internet is rife with fake reviews. Will AI make it worse?
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools that allow people to efficiently produce novel and detailed online reviews with almost no work has put merchants, service providers and consumers in uncharted territory, ...
Dec 23, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Cryptographic protocol enables secure data sharing in floating wind energy sector
Floating wind power offers enormous potential for deepwater offshore energy development. However, the management and secure exchange of data between stakeholders represents a key challenge for its evolution.
Dec 23, 2024
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Robotics
Robot mimics traditional Chinese massage techniques for therapeutic use
In recent years, roboticists have developed a wide range of systems that could eventually be introduced in health care and assisted living facilities. These include both medical robots and robots designed to provide companionship ...
Engineering
Thermal evaporation emerges as a promising strategy for scalable solid-state battery production
Solid-state lithium batteries are promising energy storage solutions that utilize solid electrolytes as opposed to the liquid or gel electrolytes found in traditional lithium-ion batteries (LiBs). Compared to LiBs and other ...
Energy & Green Tech
New material for sodium-ion batteries brings affordable, sustainable future within grasp
While lithium-ion batteries have been the go-to technology for everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars, there are growing concerns about the future because lithium is relatively scarce, expensive and difficult ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Open-source platform provides a virtual playground for human-AI teaming
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already become an invisible but indispensable collaborator in our lives. It helps filter spam from your inbox, improves your Netflix recommendations, and, as an automotive copilot, suggests ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Security
AI-driven gait analysis bridges health care and security fields
The analysis of a person's individual walking pattern, or gait, can reveal details about their identity and reflect differences between individuals, groups and even populations.
Dec 20, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Fake credentials offer novel solution to e-voting challenges
As we come to the end of a year in which half the world's population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Computer Sciences
AI-powered algorithm enables personalized age transformation for human faces
Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland recently developed MyTimeMachine (MyTM), a new AI-powered method for personalized age transformation that can make human faces in images ...
Energy & Green Tech
Machine learning helps researchers develop perovskite solar cells with near-record efficiency
An international team of scientists has used machine learning to help them develop perovskite solar cells with near-record efficiency. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they used the ...
