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Tech Xplore / Liquid crystal inclusions enhance artificial muscles for robots

An international team led by researchers at the University of Waterloo has developed a new material that can be used as flexible artificial muscles to replace rigid motors and pumps in robots and allow them to move more naturally ...

Oct 23, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Secret QR codes and hidden warnings: 3D printing technique allows precise control of material properties, point by point

3D printing is extremely practical when you want to produce small quantities of customized components. However, this technology has always had one major problem: 3D printers can only process a single material at a time. Until ...

Oct 23, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / New organic thin-film tunnel transistors for wearable and other small electronics

To meet the growing demands of flexible and wearable electronic systems, such as smart watches and biomedical sensors, electronics engineers are seeking high-performance transistors that can efficiently modulate electrical ...

Tech Xplore / Nanoporous silicon generates electricity from friction with water

A European research team involving Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY has developed a novel way for converting mechanical energy into electricity—by using water confined in ...

Oct 22, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Semi-transparent solar cells achieve record efficiency to advance building-integrated photovoltaics

A research team has developed an innovative parameter, FoMLUE, to evaluate the potential of photoactive materials for semi-transparent organic photovoltaics (ST-OPVs), paving the way for their widespread commercial applications.

Oct 22, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Engineers use artificial intelligence to predict car crashes

If you change the timing of a traffic light from 20 seconds to 30 seconds, a new artificial intelligence tool developed by Johns Hopkins University researchers can predict how many more—or how many fewer—accidents will ...

Oct 22, 2025 in Automotive
Tech Xplore / Flash-freezing observation method improves outlook for lithium metal battery

In science and everyday life, the act of observing or measuring something sometimes changes the thing being observed or measured. You may have experienced this "observer effect" when you measured the pressure of a tire and ...

Oct 22, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Humans and LLMs represent sentences similarly, study finds

Psychologists and behavioral scientists have been trying to understand how people mentally represent, encode and process letters, words and sentences for decades. The introduction of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, ...

Oct 21, 2025 in Machine learning & AI
Tech Xplore / Ultra-compact semiconductor could power next-gen AI and 6G chips

A research team, led by Professor Heein Yoon in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UNIST has unveiled an ultra-small hybrid low-dropout regulator (LDO) that promises to advance power management in advanced semiconductor ...

Tech Xplore / New air filter could turn every building into a carbon sink

Despite decades of warnings and increasing efforts to fight climate change, global carbon emissions are still rising. While cutting emissions from the source is a common way we address this problem, another crucial strategy ...

Oct 21, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Transforming waste solar panels into hydrogen and secondary battery materials

A research team from UNIST has unveiled a novel technology capable of extracting hydrogen (H₂) stored in ammonia (NH₃) by adding silicon (Si), simultaneously producing high-purity H2 and silicon nitride (Si₃N₄). This ...

Oct 21, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / How to advance technology without cognitive overload

A new paper explores how managing cognitive load distribution is vital for navigating complex technologies and enabling their effective use.

Oct 21, 2025 in Consumer & Gadgets