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Stanford engineers find ankle exoskeletons can greatly increase walking speed

“In lab tests, researchers found that an optimized ankle exoskeleton system increased participants’ walking speed by about 40 percent compared with their regular speed. The researchers hope someday to help restore walking speed in older adults. Being unable to walk …

Study: ‘Fingerprint’ for 3D printer accurate 92% of time

“University at Buffalo researchers identify machines by their unique ‘hot end,’ could aid intellectual property, security 3D printing is transforming everything from fashion and health care to transportation and toys. But this rapidly evolving technology, also known as additive manufacturing …

Tailing new ideas

“MechE’s Aaron Johnson’s Robomechanics Lab is looking to nature for robotic tail designs that make orientation tasks easier for moving robots. From lizards to kangaroos, many animals with tails possess an agility that allows them to turn or …

To Design Truly Compostable Plastic, Scientists Take Cues From Nature

“New technology developed by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley could steer plastics away from landfills and oceans – and into your backyard compost bin Despite our efforts to sort and recycle, less than 9% of plastic gets recycled in the U …

Transparent nanolayers for more solar power

“Nanostructured material and a new cell design pave the way for the production of silicon solar cells with more than 26 percent efficiency There is no cheaper way to generate electricity today than with the sun. Power plants are currently …

Ubuntu 21.04 is here

“Today, Canonical released Ubuntu 21.04 with native Microsoft Active Directory integration, Wayland graphics by default, and a Flutter application development SDK. Separately, Canonical and Microsoft announced performance optimization and joint support for Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu. “Native Active …

Understanding Interfaces of Hybrid Materials with Machine Learning

“Using machine learning methods, researchers at TU Graz can predict the structure formation of functionalized molecules at the interfaces of hybrid materials. Now they have also succeeded in looking behind the driving forces of this structure formation. The production of …

Uniquely sharp X-ray view

“Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in looking inside materials using the method of transient grating spectroscopy with ultrafast X-rays at SwissFEL. The experiment at PSI is a milestone in observing processes in …

Water and quantum magnets share critical physics

“Water can freeze from liquid to solid ice or boil into a gas. In the kitchen these “phase transitions” aren’t smooth, but their discontinuous nature is smoothed out at high pressure. An international team of physicists led by EPFL …

Xilinx Introduces Kria Portfolio of Adaptive System-on-Modules for Accelerating Innovation and AI Applications at the Edge

“Production-ready embedded boards and low-cost developer kit accelerate design cycles for rapid deployment; initial products target vision AI applications in smart cities and factories Xilinx, Inc. today introduced the Kria™ portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs), production-ready small form factor embedded …