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Tech Xplore / Dexterous robotic hand integrates thermal, inertial and force sensors

While roboticists have introduced increasingly advanced systems over the past decades, most existing robots are not yet able to manipulate objects with the same dexterity and sensing ability as humans. This, in turn, adversely ...

Jul 17, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / The tap trap: Android security vulnerability discovered

What we see on our mobile phone screens is not always what we are actually operating. This has been demonstrated by a research team at TU Wien (Vienna, Austria), consisting of Philipp Beer, Sebastian Roth, Marco Squarcina, ...

Jul 17, 2025 in Security
Tech Xplore / Can AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering

Imagine a future where artificial intelligence quietly shoulders the drudgery of software development: refactoring tangled code, migrating legacy systems, and hunting down race conditions, so that human engineers can devote ...

Jul 17, 2025 in Software
Tech Xplore / Anyone can now train a robot: New tool makes teaching skills hands-on and easy

Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone.

Jul 17, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Analog repeaters could be the key to practical mmWave deployment

Analog repeaters dramatically enhance millimeter-wave (mmWave) coverage in mobile networks by overcoming signal blockage, report researchers from Science Tokyo. As demonstrated in a field experiment at Ookayama Campus, low-cost ...

Jul 17, 2025 in Telecom
Tech Xplore / When the stakes are high, do machine learning models make fair decisions?

Machine learning is an integral part of high-stakes decision-making in a broad swath of human-computer interactions. You apply for a job. You submit a loan application. Algorithms determine who advances and who is declined.

Jul 17, 2025 in Consumer & Gadgets
Tech Xplore / AI 'coach' helps language models choose between text and code to solve problems

Large language models (LLMs) excel at using textual reasoning to understand the context of a document and provide a logical answer about its contents. But these same LLMs often struggle to correctly answer even the simplest ...

Jul 17, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / New research reveals AI has a confidence problem

Large language models (LLMs) sometimes lose confidence when answering questions and abandon correct answers, according to a new study by researchers at Google DeepMind and University College London.

Jul 16, 2025 in Machine learning & AI
Tech Xplore / Robots now grow and repair themselves by consuming parts from other machines

Today's robots are stuck—their bodies are usually closed systems that can neither grow nor self-repair, nor adapt to their environment. Now, scientists at Columbia University have developed robots that can physically "grow," ...

Jul 16, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Solid-state batteries promise faster charging, longer life, and improved safety

Solid-state batteries charge in a fraction of the time, run cooler, and pack more energy into less space than traditional lithium-ion versions.

Jul 16, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Elephant robot demonstrates bioinspired 3D printing technology

A cheetah's powerful sprint, a snake's lithe slither, or a human's deft grasp: Each is made possible by the seamless interplay between soft and rigid tissues. Muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones work together to provide ...

Jul 16, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Wastewater contaminants boost green hydrogen production

Research led by RMIT University has developed an experimental invention to turn wastewater's high contaminant load into an advantage for making green hydrogen that could reduce reliance on fresh water—a scarce resource ...

Jul 16, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech