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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 ...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-tetris-detector.html

Today wirelessly connected devices are performing an expanding array of applications, such as monitoring the condition of engines and machinery and remote sensing in agricultural settings. System...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-device-electricity-remote.html

An improved charging protocol might help lithium-ion batteries to last much longer. Charging with a high-frequency pulsed current reduces aging effects, an international team demonstrated. The st...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-bessy-ii-pulsed-batteries.html

While cellular networks and Wi-Fi systems are more advanced than ever, they are also quickly reaching their bandwidth limits. Scientists know that in the near future they'll need to transition to...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-technique-secret-wireless-communication.html

Our muscles are nature's perfect actuators—devices that turn energy into motion. For their size, muscle fibers are more powerful and precise than most synthetic actuators. They can even heal fr...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-flexible-skeletons-soft-muscle-powered.html

While 3D printing has exploded in popularity, many of the plastic materials these printers use to create objects cannot be easily recycled. While new sustainable materials are emerging for use in...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-3d-printer-figure-unknown-material.html

Climbing robots could have many valuable real-world applications, ranging from the completion of maintenance tasks on roofs or other tall structures to the delivery of parcels or survival kits in...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-fusion-slam-localization-capabilities-biped.html

New research suggests that materials commonly overlooked in computer chip design actually play an important role in information processing, a discovery that could lead to faster and more efficien...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-hidden-semiconductor-material.html

Mass spectrometry, a technique that can precisely identify the chemical components of a sample, could be used to monitor the health of people who suffer from chronic illnesses. For instance, a ma...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-3d-key-components-mass-spectrometer.html

The Gulf Coast of the United States is often hit by tropical cyclones (TCs), hurricanes and other extreme weather phenomena, which can cause widespread electricity outages. Climate change and glo...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-exploring-resilience-texas-power-grid.html

In natural ecosystems, the herd mentality plays a major role—from schools of fish, to beehives to ant colonies. This collective behavior allows the whole to exceed the sum of its parts and bett...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-smart-swarms-tiny-robots-natural.html

A research team has developed a mini-inductor based on amorphous alloys that can achieve both excellent flexibility and high inductance. The study is published in Advanced Functional Materials.

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-scientists-amorphous-flexible-mini-inductor.html

If you imagine an industrial wind turbine, you likely picture the windmill design, technically known as a horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT). But the very first wind turbines, which were develop...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-machine-enables-viability-vertical-axis.html

Windows welcome light into interior spaces, but they also bring in unwanted heat. A new window coating blocks heat-generating ultraviolet and infrared light and lets through visible light, regard...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-sunrise-sunset-window-coating-blocks.html

Energy harvesting, an eco-friendly technology, extends beyond solar and wind power in generating electricity from unused or discarded energy in daily life, including vibrations generated by passi...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-blocks-greener-energy-reconfigurable-elastic.html

Biologist, materials scientist and bionics specialist Professor Stanislav N. Gorb and his team at Kiel University's Institute of Zoology are known for analyzing the spectacular abilities of anima...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-robot-chinese-rice-grasshopper.html

A team of physicists and engineers at Technical University of Denmark reports that it is possible to build a working selenium–silicon tandem solar cell, a combination that could theoretically i...

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-seleniumsilicon-tandem-solar-cell-efficiency.html