Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have demonstrated for the first time how to use a type of material called a liquid crystal to build the basic pieces needed for logic operations, clearing the way for a completely new manner of computing. The findings, which were published in Science Advances […]
Xu and colleagues report on laboratory tests in which they employed an array of commercially available solar cells to develop an optimal lens-free system for high-speed optical detection underwater in the Optica Publishing Group journal Optics Letters. Photodiodes, which have traditionally been utilized as detectors in wireless optical communication, have a much smaller detecting area […]
Researchers have developed a new technique, called MonoCon, that improves the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) programs to identify three-dimensional (3D) objects, and how those objects relate to each other in space, using two-dimensional (2D) images. For example, the work would help the AI used in autonomous vehicles navigate in relation to other vehicles using […]
A new fabrication technique produces low-voltage, power-dense artificial muscles that improve the performance of flying micro robots. Bigger isn’t necessarily better when it comes to robots.A swarm of insect-sized robots could one day fertilize a wheat field or hunt for survivors among the ruins of a fallen building. Drones that can zip around with bug-like […]
“You’ll see robotic hands do a power grasp and a precision grasp and then kind of imply that they can do everything in between,” said Wilson Ruotolo, PhD ’21, a former graduate student in the Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab at Stanford University. “What we wanted to address is how to create manipulators that are […]