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Mimicking biological movements with soft robots

“Designing a soft robot to move organically to bend like a finger or twist like a wrist has always been a process of trial and error. Now, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences …

NASA Engineers Test Combustion Chamber to Advance 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Design

“Recent tests of a developmental rocket engine at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, produced all the performance data engineers were hoping for, along with the traditional fire and roar. But this engine is anything but traditional …

PIXEL for PC and MAC

“Our vision in establishing the Raspberry Pi Foundation was that everyone should be able to afford their own programmable general-purpose computer. The intention has always been that the Raspberry Pi should be a full-featured desktop computer at a $35 price …

SK Hynix Inc. to Construct a Cutting Edge NAND Flash FAB in Cheongju

“SK Hynix Inc.(‘the Company’, www.skhynix.com) announced it will construct a new memory semiconductor FAB in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do to meet increasing NAND Flash demand. This is a part of a mid/long-term investment plan that SK Hynix declared …

The world’s tiniest radio

“Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have made the world’s smallest radio receiver, built out of an assembly of atomic-scale defects in pink diamonds. This tiny radio, whose building blocks are …

A Conscious Coupling of Magnetic and Electric Materials

“Scientists have successfully paired ferroelectric and ferrimagnetic materials so that their alignment can be controlled with a small electric field at near room temperatures, an achievement that could open doors to ultra low-power microprocessors, storage devices and next-generation electronics. The …

A Phone That Charges in Seconds? UCF Scientists Bring it Closer to Reality

“A team of UCF scientists has developed a new process for creating flexible supercapacitors that can store more energy and be recharged more than 30,000 times without degrading. The novel method from the University of Central Florida’s NanoScience …

Amazon Conducts First Commercial Drone Delivery

“Amazon.com Inc.’s drone delivery program has liftoff—from a rural corner of England. Amazon last week made its first customer delivery by drone, carrying a package containing popcorn and a Fire TV video-streaming device several miles to a …

Announcing updates to Google’s Internet of Things platform: Android Things and Weave

“The Internet of Things (IoT) will bring computing to a whole new range of devices. Today we’re announcing two important updates to our IoT developer platform to make it faster and easier for you to create these smart, connected …

Flexible device captures energy from human motion

“The day of charging cellphones with finger swipes and powering Bluetooth headsets simply by walking is now much closer. Michigan State University engineering researchers have created a new way to harvest energy from human motion, using a film-like device that …