Creating robots to safely aid disaster victims is one challenge; executing flexible robot control that takes advantage of the material's softness is another. The use of pliable soft materials to ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-built-bionic-method-pneumatic-artificial.html
A team of physicists and engineers at Vector Atomic, Inc., a maker of navigation and communications equipment, has developed a new kind of atomic clock that they claim is both ultra-precise and s...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-scientists-atomic-clock-ultra-precise.html
A team of researchers led by Professor Philip C.Y. Chow from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has made a significant breakthrough in the field of orga...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-uncover-key-efficient-stable-solar.html
Thermochromic perovskite is a new color switch material used in energy-saving smart windows. Despite its potential for energy savings, thermochromic perovskite suffers from poor weather resistanc...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-mask-perovskite-smart-windows-weather.html
Robotics engineers have worked for decades and invested many millions of research dollars in attempts to create a robot that can walk or run as well as an animal. And yet, it remains the case tha...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-robots-outrun-animals.html
A new streaming technique allows playback of data while it is being generated. When scientists want to look at a tiny structure in a material, even one just a few atoms in size, they frequently t...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-scientists-ray-microscopy-method-analysis.html
As a grid-scale energy storage system, flow batteries have gained increasing attention as a means to address the challenges associated with fluctuations and intermittency in renewable energy sour...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-electrodes-energy-storage-batteries.html
The world's largest 3D printer has created a house that can cut construction time and labor. An even larger printer unveiled on Tuesday may one day create entire neighborhoods.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-world-largest-3d-printer-university.html
Electronic devices are getting more and more complex as they are built to carry out an ever-increasing number of functions. This can be seen in the increased functionality in our personal devices...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-aerogel-based-phase-materials-thermal.html
Smart windows are an exciting technology, capable of blocking out or letting in more light as needed, potentially reducing energy costs of large buildings by making them more efficient. This tech...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-potatoes-corn-beans-breakthrough-smart.html
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues have improved the properties of a carbon-based electrode material by exposing it to air plasma. Such treatment turned out to enhance electrode perfo...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-plasma-treatment-electrode-material-fuel.html
It takes a village to nurture social robots. Researchers who develop social robots—ones that people interact with—focus too much on design features and not enough on sociological factors, lik...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-people-features-robot-social.html
Water scarcity around the world is a bigger problem than ever, and desalination is critical to solving it. The best available technologies for separating salt from seawater, though, are costly an...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-greater-access-membrane.html
The mystery of how futuristic aircraft-embedded engines, featuring an energy-conserving arrangement, make noise has been solved by researchers at the University of Bristol.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-silent-flight-edges-closer.html
A technology that harnesses solar energy to produce high-efficiency ammonia (NH3) has been unveiled by a research team affiliated with UNIST.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-harnessing-solar-energy-high-efficiency.html
Four-legged robots, also known as quadrupedal robots, have advantageous characteristics, including the ability to rapidly walk on challenging terrains and keep a low center of gravity. Some four-...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-dexterous-legged-robot-simultaneously.html
EPFL researchers are targeting the next generation of soft actuators and robots with an elastomer-based ink for 3D printing objects with locally changing mechanical properties, eliminating the ne...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-ink-3d-flexible-devices-mechanical.html
A study, published in Nature Energy, is among the first to explore the floating photovoltaics (FPV) at the continental scale, finding that FPV installed at existing major reservoirs could produce...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-solar-potential-sustainable.html
A new robotic suction cup that can grasp rough, curved and heavy stone, has been developed by scientists at the University of Bristol. The team, based at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, studied the ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-octopus-suction-mechanism-robots.html
A team of roboticists and mechanical and aeronautical engineers at Stanford University has developed a spider-like robot for possible use in exploring caves or lava tubes on Mars. In their paper ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-spider-robot-explore-caves-mars.html
Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-3d-printers-robots-soft.html
Wind power is a source of energy that is both affordable and renewable. However, decision-makers have been reluctant to invest in wind energy due to a perception that wind farms require a lot of ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-air-farms-efficient-previously-thought.html
Engineers at Princeton University have quantified the cooling benefits of a simple solution for beating urban heat: reflecting solar radiation back from whence it came.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-retro-reflectors-future-cities-cool.html
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of RAS and research centers in China, Japan, and Italy have discovered a material for chemical storage of hydr...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-material-hydrogen-storage-confines-troublesome.html
Robots with wheels could potentially navigate a variety of indoor and outdoor environments, traveling for longer distances and with fewer risks of losing balance. While some wheeled robots have a...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-rimless-wheel-robot-reliably.html
Most people do not give the U.S. electric grid a second thought—we flip a switch, and the lights come on. Behind the scenes are thousands of power plants and utilities linked by millions of mil...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-cooler-electric-grid.html
Controlling heat flow is key to enhancing performance in a wide variety of systems. In electronic devices, such as mobile phones or any type of processor, overheating decreases their performance ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-electrical-pulses-thermal-resistance-devices.html
A team of biomedical, mechanical, and aerospace engineers from City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a hopping robot by attaching a spring-...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-adding-telescopic-leg-beneath-quadcopter.html
University of Florida engineers have developed a method for 3D printing called vapor-induced phase-separation 3D printing, or VIPS-3DP, to create single-material as well as multi-material objects...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-3d-method-eco-friendly.html
The spread of radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan in 2011 and the ongoing threat of a possible release of radiation from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex ...