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Surrey creates new tool to speed up the design of wearable tech

“People could soon power items such as their mobile phones or personal health equipment by simply using their daily movements, thanks to a new research tool that could be used by manufacturers. In a new paper published by Nano Energy …

Transparent Eel-like Soft Robot Can Swim Silently Underwater

“An innovative, eel-like robot developed by engineers and marine biologists at the University of California can swim silently in salt water without an electric motor. Instead, the robot uses artificial muscles filled with water to propel itself. The foot-long robot …

Project  Ugly Bug

Ugly Bug

“A walking insect looking thing made from leftovers. Here is a quick and easy little robot that can be built and assembled in about half an hour with the right tools and parts. I didn’t invent it. I saw …

UMD Researchers Revive Old Chemistry to Create Safer Zinc Battery

“A team of researchers from the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering have created a water-based zinc battery that is simultaneously powerful, rechargeable, and intrinsically safe. The new aqueous zinc battery could eventually be used in …

UTA expands efforts to develop water recycling technologies

“The Collaborative Laboratories for Environmental Analysis and Remediation at The University of Texas at Arlington has expanded its partnership with oil field equipment supplier Challenger Water Solutions to develop water recycling technologies that will transform waste from unconventional oil and …

4-meter Tall Ridable Transforming Humanoid Robot “J-deite RIDE” Unveiled

“J-deite Ride LLP, Asratec Corp. (“Asratec”, a robot software company of the SoftBank Group),Sansei Technologies, Inc. (“Sanesi”), and BRAVE ROBOTICS Inc. (“BRAVE ROBOTICS”) announced a prototype of the ridable transforming humanoid robot “J-deite RIDE”. J-deite RIDE is a 4-meter …

An Ionic Black Box

“UCSB researchers use emerging memory devices to develop electronic circuits for cybersecurity applications While we embrace the way the Internet of Things already is making our lives more streamlined and convenient, the cybersecurity risk posed by millions of wirelessly connected …

Arduino 18650 Battery Charger: Project 1

“This lithium battery is perhaps one of the most commonly used batteries today. It can be found in laptop computers, hand tools, electric cigarette’s and even electric vehicles. My personal experience has to do with being an engineer that …

Arduino Star-Finder for Telescopes

“Space is big. Really big. Owning a small telescope can give a lot of pleasure, but it’s often a struggle trying to locate specific objects in the night sky. In this project I made and integrated an Arduino-powered star-finder …

Battery’s hidden layer revealed

“Commercially available since the 1970s, the lithium-ion battery is now the workhorse power source in many applications. It can be found in cell phones, laptops and electric vehicles. Yet, much about the basic science taking place at the atomic and …