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A small robotic frog developed at Aarhus University can swim using six artificial muscles activated by light. Behind the achievement is a systematic approach that could help researchers develop muscles for the next generation ...

The control of large-scale industrial bioreactors is one of the most complex tasks in the process industry. In the often huge plants, the smallest differences in temperature, pH value or oxygen content determine the success ...

Fitting tidal turbines with flexible rubber blades could enable the machines to generate cheaper power by making them simpler and tougher, a study published in the journal Nature suggests.

A new neural network component, developed at University of Michigan Engineering, challenges a common assumption in robot learning: that the same general-purpose neural networks used for image recognition are equally suited ...

If "to err is human," you could say robots are superhuman. They're more error-prone than we are, even when tasked with things like home and factory chores, which we might consider easy. One reason for these mistakes is that ...

Researchers at Colorado State University have developed a flexible robot that functions like an elephant's trunk to grip objects, with a goal of one day sending teams of these machines to aid in space exploration or to help ...

EPFL researchers have shown that a single organic semiconductor layer can drive either hydrogen or oxygen evolution, depending only on the molecular layer beneath it. Using this effect, they built the first organic semiconductor-based ...

A research team led by professor Zhu Hui from the Institute of Intelligent Machines at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed two methods to improve reconstruction fidelity, ...

Loot boxes and gacha mechanics inside video games offer players random prizes for money. Policymakers around the world are concerned about the risks involved with gambling-like products. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission ...

Although the stresses and demands on roads and airport runways are very different, the methods used to analyze the asphalt they are made from are very similar. Several dedicated methods exist to analyze road asphalt, but ...

A new class of iron-based catalysts could bring scientists a step closer to developing cheaper and more sustainable rechargeable batteries that use carbon dioxide (CO₂), according to research from the University of Surrey.

AI is often criticized for the energy its data centers consume, which is driving more fossil fuel use and contributing to climate change.