Month: February 2023

Robots can understand specific social interactions and use machine learning to assist them. While robots can deliver food to college campuses and hit a hole-in-one on the golf course, they cannot perform the fundamental social interactions necessary for everyday human life. Researchers at MIT have integrated social interactions into a framework to enable robots to […]

Sandia demonstrates how advanced wayfinding technology could finally be compact and fieldable. Do not let the sapphire windows or titanium metal walls fool you. This tiny, curious device could one day be the start of a new era in navigation. The vacuum chamber, about the size of an avocado, has held cloud atoms in the […]

Magnetic fields keep a ball of current-carrying gases (plasma) in place at fusion power plants. This creates a mini sun that produces energy via nuclear fusion. Compact Advanced Tokamak (CAT), a concept using state-of-the-art physics models, can potentially increase fusion energy production. These models demonstrate that fusion plant operators can reduce turbulent eddies by shaping the […]

Michael Bartlett, a Young Investigator Award recipient from the Office of Naval Research, will develop wearable, whole-body sensing systems. Because its evolution has been almost stagnant for millions, the horseshoe crab is sometimes called a ” living dinosaur.” Even though it has not evolved, the horseshoe crab still has a unique sensory network, some photoreceptors, that can […]

Made of non-toxic, inexpensive elements, chalcogenide perovskites can be used in lighting, solar cells, and other applications. MIT engineers have created the first thin films of a new class of semiconductor materials. Rafael Jaramillo, the lead researcher, refers to the feat as his “white whale” due to his obsessive pursuit of it over the years. […]

Wearers can be placed in virtual and augmented reality headsets. The technology is already trendy due to its immersive nature. However, the future could see holographic displays that look more like real life. The Stanford Computational Imaging Lab combined its expertise in optics with artificial intelligence to create better presentations. The paper describing their latest […]

An autonomous boat could be the best mode of transport for you if you aren’t seasick. Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory CSAIL and Senseable City Laboratory have created the final project of their self-navigating trilogy. This is a fully-autonomous, full-scale robotic boat that can be used to navigate the Amsterdam canals. […]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy, developed a new polymer to bind and reinforce silica sand in binder jet additive manufacturing. This is a 3D printing method used in industries for prototyping or part production. The printable polymer allows for sand structures with complex geometries and exceptional strength and is also water-soluble. The study […]

Many scientists and health professionals have long dreamed of creating nanoscale computers that can be used in precision health care. Researchers at Penn State have developed a nanocomputing system that controls the protein’s function in cell movement and metastasis. This research opens the door to creating nanoscale computers that can be used to treat and […]

The device can see through corners and scattering media such as fog or human tissue. Northwestern University researchers invented the high-resolution camera capable of seeing the unheard in corners and through scattering media like skin, fog, or even the human skull. Synthetic wavelength holography is a new method that uses the indirect scattering of coherent […]