Interdisciplinary Research
News and developments from the field of interdisciplinary research.
Among other topics, you can find stimulating reports and articles related to microsystems, emotions research, futures research and stratospheric research.
Robojelly Gets an Upgrade: Underwater Robot Learns to Swim More Like the Real Thing
Developed for the Office of Naval Research in 2009, this vehicle was designed to conduct ocean underwater surveillance, enabling it potentially to detect…
Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics researchers
Much to humans' chagrin, bacteria have superior survival skills. Their decision-making processes and collective behaviors allow them to thrive and even spread…
Architecture and design help the brain to recover
New research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, into how the space around us affects the brain reveals that well-planned architecture, design and…
Optics Express Focus Issue: Collective phenomena in photonic, plasmonic and hybrid structures
The combination of optical, electronic and mechanical effects occurring in devices and materials that have structure on the nanometer scale are being…
Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch
Now computers are at it again, but this time they are trying to automate the scientific process itself.An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Vanderbilt…
Robot demonstrates human-like handwriting – researchers enable fluid writing and grasping movements
This would allow future machines to be able to imitate handwriting, pour water into a glass or handle a dishwasher. The results were published online in the…