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Tech Xplore / Human-centric soft robotics flip the script on 'The Terminator'
Pop culture has often depicted robots as cold, metallic, and menacing, built for domination, not compassion. But at Georgia Tech, the future of robotics is softer, smarter, and designed to help.
Tech Xplore / As AI grows smarter, it may also become increasingly selfish
New research from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science shows that the smarter the artificial intelligence system, the more selfish it will act.
Tech Xplore / AI model identifies high-performing battery electrolytes by starting from just 58 data points
In an ideal world, an AI model looking for new materials to build better batteries would be trained on millions or even hundreds of millions of data points.
Tech Xplore / Sustainable aviation fuel made from food waste meets industry standards
Airplane travel is more popular than ever, and our desire for fast transportation means jet fuel has become a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
Tech Xplore / Injectable antenna could safely power deep-tissue medical implants
Researchers from the MIT Media Lab have developed an antenna—about the size of a fine grain of sand—that can be injected into the body to wirelessly power deep-tissue medical implants, such as pacemakers in cardiac patients ...
Tech Xplore / Bionic leg's pilot performance spotlights its technology and the role of teamwork
One year after the international Cybathlon 2024 competition, an Italian team has published a focus article in Science Robotics on the Omnia bionic leg, which took first place in the leg prosthesis race.
Tech Xplore / Steel's carbon emissions dilemma: Retrofitting plants offers big cuts at moderate cost
A powerful new database and economic model that identifies the most cost-effective strategies to reduce the carbon emissions from the world's iron and steel processing plants has been developed by researchers from UCL.
Tech Xplore / The great search divide: How AI and traditional web searches differ
As anyone who uses the internet will know, the way we find information has fundamentally changed. For the last three decades, search engines have delivered ranked lists of links in response to our queries, and it was our ...
Tech Xplore / Literary character approach helps LLMs simulate more human-like personalities
After the advent of ChatGPT, the use of large language models (LLMs) has become increasingly widespread worldwide. LLMs are artificial intelligence (AI) systems trained on large sets of written texts, which can rapidly process ...
Tech Xplore / AI efficiency advances with spintronic memory chip that combines storage and processing
To make accurate predictions and reliably complete desired tasks, most artificial intelligence (AI) systems need to rapidly analyze large amounts of data. This currently entails the transfer of data between processing and ...
Tech Xplore / Beneath the waves: Floating solar panels are stressing the seafloor
Floating solar installations offer a tantalizing vision of sustainable energy—combining wind and solar power in the same offshore space. But according to new research, the seabed may be feeling the strain of such ingenuity.
Tech Xplore / Robots you can wear like clothes: Automatic weaving of 'fabric muscle' brings commercialization closer
The commercialization of clothing-type wearable robots has taken a significant step forward with the development of equipment that can continuously and automatically weave ultra-thin shape memory alloy coil yarn—thinner ...
