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Tech Xplore / Customizable soft robot modules allow for new haptic interactions

EPFL researchers have developed a customizable soft robotic system that uses compressed air to produce shape changes, vibrations, and other haptic, or tactile, feedback in a variety of configurations. The device holds significant ...

Jun 19, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / New test can help driverless cars make 'moral' decisions

Researchers have validated a technique for studying how people make "moral" decisions when driving, with the goal of using the resulting data to train the artificial intelligence used in autonomous vehicles. These moral psychology ...

Jun 19, 2025 in Automotive
Tech Xplore / Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find

No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an answer. To produce this information—regardless of whether the answer is correct or not—the model uses tokens. Tokens are words or parts of words that ...

Jun 19, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / In an era where empathy feels unfamiliar, AI now translates emotions

A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea) has developed AI technology that helps individuals deeply understand others' emotions by analyzing individual personality traits and values ...

Jun 19, 2025 in Consumer & Gadgets
Tech Xplore / Passive cooling paint sweats off heat to deliver 10X cooling and 30% energy savings

A new cement-based paint can cool down the building by sweating off the heat. The cooling paint, named CCP-30, was designed by an international team of researchers and features a nanoparticle-modified porous structure composed ...

Jun 18, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / New system reliably controls prosthetic hand movements without relying on biological signals

The loss of a limb following an injury, accident or disease can greatly reduce quality of life, making it harder for people to engage in daily activities. Yet recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities ...

Jun 18, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Psycholinguist talks nonsense to ChatGPT to understand how it processes language

A new study appearing in PLOS One by a psycholinguist at the University of Kansas explores how ChatGPT, the popular artificial-intelligence chatbot, responded to nonwords.

Jun 18, 2025 in Machine learning & AI
Tech Xplore / Humanoid robot achieves controlled flight using jet engines and AI-powered systems

The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has reached a milestone in humanoid robotics by demonstrating the first flight of iRonCub3, the world's first jet-powered flying humanoid robot specifically designed to operate in ...

Jun 18, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Tiny gallium nitride transistors boost chip speed and efficiency in new 3D design

The advanced semiconductor material gallium nitride will likely be key for the next generation of high-speed communication systems and the power electronics needed for state-of-the-art data centers.

Tech Xplore / Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting, researchers show

Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University has found that websites are covertly using browser fingerprinting—a method to uniquely identify a web browser—to ...

Jun 18, 2025 in Consumer & Gadgets
Tech Xplore / Perovskite-based image sensors promise higher sensitivity and resolution than silicon

Image sensors are built into every smartphone and every digital camera. They distinguish colors in a similar way to the human eye. In our retinas, individual cone cells recognize red, green and blue (RGB). In image sensors, ...

Tech Xplore / Seeing through a new LENS allows brain-like navigation in robots

QUT robotics researchers have developed a new robot navigation system that mimics the neural processes of the human brain and uses less than 10% of the energy required by traditional systems.

Jun 18, 2025 in Robotics