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Tech Xplore / Your call center rep is emotionally exhausted—their computer may know when to help
When a customer calls to complain about a billing error or a delayed package, the person on the other end of the line is doing more than answering questions.
Tech Xplore / AI machine sorts clothes faster than humans to boost textile recycling in China
In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China's east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them.
Tech Xplore / Combining the robot operating system with LLMs for natural-language control
Over the past few decades, robotics researchers have developed a wide range of increasingly advanced robots that can autonomously complete various real-world tasks. To be successfully deployed in real-world settings, such ...
Tech Xplore / Lithium-air batteries break performance barriers thanks to a newly developed 2D catalyst
As the electric vehicle and energy storage system (ESS) markets experience rapid growth, the development of next-generation batteries capable of surpassing the energy density limitations of existing lithium-ion batteries ...
Tech Xplore / AI maps science papers to predict research trends two to three years ahead
The number of scientific papers is growing so rapidly that scientists are no longer able to keep track of all of them, even in their own research area. Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in collaboration ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers build a robotic swarm with no electronics, no batteries and no brains
A LEGO brick is not smart. It doesn't compute. It doesn't plug in. It just fits. A team of Georgia Tech researchers has applied that logic to robotics. Bolei Deng, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's Daniel Guggenheim ...
Tech Xplore / Photothermal fabric panels could cut heating energy up to 23%
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have unveiled a tool to combat climate change, fossil-fuel dependency, skyrocketing home-heating bills, and gentrification all at once—a simple fabric treated with a ...
Tech Xplore / VisiPrint system generates realistic 3D-print previews from two images
Designers, makers, and others often use 3D printing to rapidly prototype a range of functional objects, from movie props to medical devices. Accurate print previews are essential so users know a fabricated object will perform ...
Tech Xplore / Producing rechargeable batteries using sunflower seed shells as raw material
A study by the EHU-University of the Basque Country shows how biomass can be used as an alternative in commercial batteries, thus making them more sustainable. The research is published in the Journal of Power Sources. Dr. ...
Tech Xplore / AI blueprints can be stolen with a single small antenna
From smartphone facial recognition to autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI) has long been protected as a black box. However, a joint research team from KAIST and international institutions has uncovered a new ...
Tech Xplore / AI systems lack a fundamental property of human cognition: Understanding this gap may matter for safety
When a person reaches across a table to pass the salt, their brain is doing something far more complex than recognizing a request and executing a movement. It is drawing on a lifetime of bodily experience—where their hand ...
Tech Xplore / Diffusion-based AI model successfully trained in electroplating
Electrochemical deposition, or electroplating, is a common industrial technique that coats materials to improve corrosion resistance and protection, durability and hardness, conductivity and more. A Los Alamos National Laboratory ...
