Battery Explosions a Thing of the Past
If they had used a safer electrolyte, the risk would have been reduced. A research team at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), S. Korea, found a new physical organogel...
View ArticleNew Software Gives Robots the Gift of Hearing
A new approach allows “smart” machines to understand sounds other than speech Robots can already discern and react to speech thanks to voice-recognition software such as the iPhone’s Siri. But “smart”...
View ArticleVIDEO: Knife-Wielding Robot Trains for Grocery Checkout Job Using New...
“The robot can learn from corrective human feedback in order to plan its actions that are suitable to the environment and the objects present.” Cornell University engineers have taught a robot to work...
View ArticleResearchers build muscle in diseased mice; create human muscle cells in a dish
New zebrafish technique quickly finds potential treatments for multiple diseases Skeletal muscle has proved to be very difficult to grow in patients with muscular dystrophy and other disorders that...
View ArticleA self-organizing thousand-robot swarm
“Form a sea star shape,” directs a computer scientist, sending the command to 1,024 little bots simultaneously via an infrared light. The robots begin to blink at one another and then gradually arrange...
View ArticleBio-inspired robots move without batteries
Here come futuristic, plant-inspired microrobots that are powered simply through changes in environmental humidity — no batteries or electrical components at all Most efforts to develop bio-inspired...
View ArticleFish Gill-Inspired Design Wins 1st Prize in Biomimicry Design Competition
“It’s amazing that by studying a fish gill, this team created a design that could impact water infrastructure on a world-wide scale.” Inspired by fish gills, newt tadpoles, and human arteries, a team...
View ArticleCan Synthetic Biology Keep Your Food Safe?
“It’s much better if you test the process as it is working.” On a hot summer day, nothing spells refreshment quite like a slice of juicy, orange cantaloupe. But in summer 2011, cantaloupes reached...
View ArticleStem Cell-Based Bioartificial Tissues and Organs
Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini has made his name by successfully transplanting bioengineered stem cell-based trachea, composed of both artificial and biological material. He now plans to use the technique...
View ArticleResearchers Use Liquid Metal to Create Wires That Stretch Eight Times Their...
The wires can be used for everything from headphones to phone chargers, and hold potential for use in electronic textiles. Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires...
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