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Bringing ‘Transformers’ to Life: MIT’s New Multitasking Robot Changes Outfits to Suit Tasks
Image – Courtesy of the MIT Researchers Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created a robot capable of altering its appearance and abilities by changing exoskeletons. This design is a departure from traditional thinking in robotics, in which robots are built to perform one task or suit one particular purpose.… Read More
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Climate Reality’s Campus Corps: How Students Can Tackle Climate Change
“We’re messing with Mother Nature and we’re making all these extreme events more intense and more common,” Al Gore told a packed room of climate activists today at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It’s Day Two of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training, and Gore was offering a summary of a… Read More
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University of Nottingham Researcher Designs Flying Motorcycle
A researcher at the University of Nottingham (UoN) in the UK has recently unveiled his designs for a flying motorcycle that could revolutionize electric aircrafts. Richard Glassock, research fellow in hybrid propulsion systems for aircraft at the UoN Institute for Aerospace Technology (IAT), has developed designs for two generators that would allow electric aircrafts to… Read More
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University at Buffalo: No More Logins for Computer Security, Heart Recognition Instead
A team of researchers, led by Wenyao Xu, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University at Buffalo’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (UB), has developed a biometric scanner that verifies a computer user’s identity by recognizing the geometry of their heart. Biometric scanners use physical features as an alternative to password… Read More
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How Students Are Assisting Puerto Rico Recovery Efforts From Their Laptops
The library was abuzz with the sound of students tapping away on their laptops as they edited maps online. Was this a class in cartography that filled the North Reading Room at Stony Brook University’s Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library? No. It was a “Mapathon,” and similar mapathons have been taking place at universities… Read More
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Carnegie Mellon Professor Leads RoboTutor Team to Win $1 Million Global Learning XPRIZE
Led by Professor Jack Mostow, professor emeritus in the School of Computer Science‘s Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the RoboTutor LLC team recently won $1 million as a Global Learning XPRIZE finalist for its educational technology. The software, aptly named RoboTutor, is designed to teach young children, between 7 and 9 years of… Read More
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Boeing Sponsors $2 Million GoFly Competition to Spur Innovation of Personal Flying Device
Exemplified by superheroes and jetpacks in movies, humans have always fantasized about the ability to fly. In an effort to make this childhood dream a reality, Boeing is sponsoring a two-year GoFly competition to create the first safe and simple personal flying device. The organizers of the GoFly Prize contest are excited to encourage teams… Read More
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University of Northampton’s Sustainable Waterside Campus Ready in 2018
The University of Northampton (UON) in England is preparing to relocate students to its new sustainable and state-of-the-art Waterside campus in 2018. The new campus, located on the banks of the River Nene, will provide academic facilities for 15,000 students, and has been designed to be as energy efficient as possible. The buildings have been… Read More
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UCLA Researchers Create ‘Personalized Cooling System’ for Mobile Electronics
A team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and SRI International, an independent, nonprofit research center, have created a thin flexible device that functions as a cooling mechanism to prevent overheating in mobile electronics. This is the first demonstration of a physical object that can change a material’s… Read More
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Diagnosing CTE in Living Patients May Become Possible with New Boston University Research
In a recent study, researchers at Boston University (BU) and the VA Boston Healthcare System (VABHS) have made a discovery that could lead to the ability to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living patients. The study is published in the journal PLOS ONE. CTE is a degenerative brain disease that has become increasingly present… Read More
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UC San Diego Engineers Create Technology for Neighbors to Share Power During Outages
Inspired by power outages that left millions without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, a team of engineers from The University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) has been seeking a solution that would allow neighbors to share the power drawn from their renewable energy sources during power outages. They have now developed… Read More
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Researchers From Oxford, Exeter and Münster Universities Develop Photonic Microchips That Mimic Human Brain
A team of researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Exeter in the UK and the University of Münster in Germany have made a significant breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence by developing a microchip with a circuitry structure mimicking that of a synapse in the brain. By engineering chip structure to emulate the… Read More
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A Symphony in Your Computer? University of Sydney Researchers Develop First Microchip That Stores Light As Sound
Scientists from The University of Sydney in Australia have created the world’s first hybrid microchip capable of transferring light waves into sound waves. Data, in the form of light waves, enter the chip via fiber optic cables, is transmitted across the cable along a thin wire in the form of acoustic waves, and is then… Read More
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Outdoor Flight Lab Now at University of Maryland
The University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering (Clark School) recently opened Fearless Flight Facility, an outdoor flight laboratory that could stem innovation in flight control, sensing, autonomy, collaboration, and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) testing. The new facility is just a short drive away from the main College Park campus in the university’s… Read More
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Stony Brook University Professor Leads Clinical Trial of E-Mental Health Tool for Astronauts
Adam Gonzalez, an assistant professor at Stony Brook University’s School of Medicine, is currently leading a clinical trial of an e-mental health tool, called myCompass, to determine if the tool would help relieve stress, anxiety and/or depression in astronauts. The goal of the clinical trial is to gather information on the delivery of e-mental health… Read More
