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Artificial Muscles Bloom, Dance, and Wave

“Wearing a flower brooch that blooms before your eyes sounds like magic. KAIST researchers have made it real with robotic muscles. Researchers have developed an ultrathin, artificial muscle for soft robotics. The advancement, recently reported in the journal Science Robotics …

Bell Autonomous Pod Transport 70 Achieves First Autonomous Flight

“Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today the successful first autonomous flight of the Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) 70 at their testing site near Fort Worth. Bell plans to continue to test the vehicle under an …

Building an Infrared Transmitter and Receiver Board

“Most remote controls for your TV, cable box, Blu-ray player or other consumer electronic devices use infrared signals. IR is also an inexpensive and effective way to control a variety of maker projects. IR is especially useful in creating assistive …

Campable - the Internet of Tents!

“Campable helps you find the perfect spot to pitch your tent while protecting you from increasingly erratic weather! Weather around the world seems to be getting more extreme and more unpredictable, with 2019 setting myriad extreme weather records. So what …

Coating developed by Stanford researchers brings lithium metal battery closer to reality

“A Stanford-led research team invented a new coating that could finally make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long lasting, which could usher in the next generation of electric vehicles. Hope has been restored for the rechargeable lithium metal battery …

Cray Announces Third Exascale Supercomputer Win

“On August 13 we announced our third contract in six months to deliver an exascale supercomputer to the U.S. Department of Energy. That’s right. Three. Named El Capitan and slated for delivery to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, this …

Detraction-free light-matter interaction

“An efficient light-matter interface might constitute the foundation of quantum communication. However, certain structures that are formed during the growth process interfere with the signal. Certain semiconductor structures, so-called quantum dots, might constitute the foundation of quantum communication. They are …

Energy-efficient power electronics – gallium oxide power transistors with record values

“Powerful electronic components are indispensable for future communications, for the digital transformation of society and for artificial intelligence applications. On a footprint as small as possible, they should offer low energy consumption and achieve ever higher power densities, thus working …

Engineers make transistors and electronic devices entirely from thread

“Transistors and integrated circuits made from threads are combined with thread-based sensors to create fully flexible devices A team of Tufts University engineers has developed a transistor made from linen thread, enabling them to create electronic devices made entirely of …

Enhancing Materials for Hi-Res Patterning to Advance Microelectronics

“Scientists at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials created “hybrid” organic-inorganic materials for transferring ultrasmall, high-aspect-ratio features into silicon for next-generation electronic devices To increase the processing speed and reduce the power consumption of electronic devices, the microelectronics industry …