A new type of valve that makes soft robots more resilient to damage, has been developed by engineers at the University of Sheffield.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-valve-soft-robots-resilience-boost.html
A new method to measure the continuous spectrum of light, developed in the lab of University of Houston professor of electrical and computer engineering Jiming Bao, is set to improve thermal imag...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-technique-thermal-imaging-infrared-thermography.html
Self-amputation may seem like a drastic move, but it's a survival tactic that's proved particularly handy for numerous creatures. Yale roboticists have drawn inspiration from lizards, crabs, and ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-robot-survives-amputation.html
When picturing next-generation wearables and robotics, the foam filling in your couch cushions is likely not the first thing that comes to mind. However, Rice University engineers have shown that...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-foam-fluidics-showcase-team-creative.html
A team of engineers from Tsinghua University, working at China's high-temperature reactor with a pebble-bed module (HTR-PM), claims that the reactor has passed a critical cooling test. In their s...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-meltdown-proof-nuclear-reactor-loss.html
Earth's atmosphere holds an ocean of water, enough liquid to fill Utah's Great Salt Lake 800 times. Extracting some of that moisture is seen as a potential way to provide clean drinking water to ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-compact-atmospheric-harvesting-device-thin.html
Fusion vessels have a Goldilocks problem: The plasma within needs to be hot enough to generate net power, but if it's too hot, it can damage the vessel's interior. Researchers at the Princeton Pl...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-loops-liquid-lithium-fusion-temperature.html
As the name suggests, most electronic devices today work through the movement of electrons. But materials that can efficiently conduct protons—the nucleus of the hydrogen atom—could be key to...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-proton-materials-enable-green-energy.html
Faced with the world's impending freshwater scarcity, a team of researchers in Singapore turned to solar steam generators (SSGs), which are emerging as a promising device for seawater desalinatio...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-bio-3d-solar-steam-generators.html
Can a robot mimicking a climbing and walking lizard give new insights into the evolution and advantages of different movements in humans and other animals?
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-bio-lizard-robot-reveals-optimum.html
Research by SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) President Dr. Winston Soboyejo and peers at Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) titled, "Interfacial fracture of Perovskite Light Emitting De...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-interfacial-fracture-perovskite-emitting-devices.html
Soft rehabilitation gloves have become popular tools for helping patients with hand function-related disabilities recover finger movement. These gloves often use soft pneumatic actuators that emp...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-foldable-pouch-actuator-finger-extension.html
A breakthrough in traffic monitoring technology has been achieved by a research team affiliated with UNIST. The team unveiled sensors that can monitor traffic and road conditions in real-time, wh...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-carbon-fiber-composite-sensors-solution.html
The world around us is constantly being flash photographed by adaptive radar systems. From salt flats to mountains and everything in between, adaptive radar is used to detect, locate and track mo...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-radar-ai-enormous-source-dataset.html
A team of engineers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology has found that ferrofluidic drops ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-ferrofluid-droplet-movements.html
Understanding how soft materials fail under stress is critical for solving engineering challenges as disparate as pharmaceutical technology and landslide prevention. A new study linking a spectru...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-parameter-soft-materials-stress.html
The concept of short-range order (SRO)—the arrangement of atoms over small distances—in metallic alloys has been underexplored in materials science and engineering. But the past decade has se...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-machine-secrets-advanced-alloys.html
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), have developed an innovative wearable fabric that is flexible but can stiffen on demand.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-scientists-3d-fabric-medical-devices.html
Have you ever wondered how insects are able to go so far beyond their home and still find their way? The answer to this question is not only relevant to biology but also to making the AI for tiny...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-insect-autonomous-strategy-tiny-lightweight.html
When electronic devices like laptops or smartphones overheat, they are fundamentally suffering from a nanoscale heat transfer problem. Pinpointing the source of that problem can be like trying to...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-technique-nanoscale-hot-electronics-longevity.html
A team of engineers and roboticists at EPFL in Switzerland has designed and built a gliding drone that can use its wings as a gripping tool to perch on a vertical object. In their project, report...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-drones-wings-poles-tree-limbs.html
Advances in 3D printing have enabled many applications across a variety of disciplines, including medicine, manufacturing, and energy. A range of different materials can be used to print both sim...
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Physical AI (PAI) Lab, led by Dr. Aslan Miriyev, have developed multifunctional material-sensors that emulate the complex capabilities of natur...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-soft-multifunctional-sensors-physical-ai.html
Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a tiny "claw machine" that is able to pick up and drop a marble-sized ball in response to e...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-chemical-claw-machine-vapor-exposure.html
Northwestern University engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting—just like a human muscle.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-actuators-artificial-muscles-safer-softer.html
Purdue University material engineers have created a patent-pending process to develop ultrahigh-strength aluminum alloys that are suitable for additive manufacturing because of their plastic defo...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-fabricate-ultrastrong-aluminum-alloys-additive.html
A new way to store carbon captured from the atmosphere, developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, works much faster than current methods without the harmful chemical accelera...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-carbon-storage-technology-fastest-kind.html
Researchers from the Smart and Wireless Applications and Technologies Group (SWAT-UGR) have conducted two scientific studies aimed at answering a common question: understanding how electromagneti...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-propagation-boost-5g-6g-networks.html
A newly designed catalyst created by University of Toronto Engineering researchers efficiently converts captured carbon into valuable products—even in the presence of a contaminant that degrade...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-contaminant-tolerant-catalyst-capture-carbon.html
Titanium alloys are essential structural materials for a wide variety of applications, from aerospace and energy infrastructure to biomedical equipment. But like most metals, optimizing their pro...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-approach-routes-stronger-titanium-alloys.html