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Robots Transforming Rehabilitation: Tools and Partners in Care

In future decades the need for effective strategies for medical rehabilitation will increase significantly, because patients’ rate of survival after diseases…

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Magnetic Antiparticles: Skyrmions Transform Data Storage

Nanosized magnetic particles called skyrmions are considered highly promising candidates for new data storage and information technologies. Now, physicists…

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Next-Gen Quantum Communications: Fraunhofer HHI’s PolyBoard

The hybrid photonic integration platform PolyBoard, developed at Fraunhofer HHI, enables the flexible and efficient combination of various optical…

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Streamline Mold Design With Innovative Interactive Software

Most of the plastic objects we see are created using injection molding, but designing such molds is a difficult task, usually requiring experts. Now, computer…

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Interactive Machine Learning Tool Enhances Car Aerodynamics

When engineers or designers want to test the aerodynamic properties of the newly designed shape of a car, airplane, or other object, they would normally model…

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'Building up' stretchable electronics to be as multipurpose as your smartphone

As a proof of concept, a team led by the University of California San Diego has built a stretchable electronic patch that can be worn on the skin like a…

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Advanced Water Simulation Balances Detail and Performance

When designers select a method for simulating water and waves, they have to choose either fast computation or realistic effects; state-of-the-art methods are…

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Robots as 'pump attendants': TU Graz develops robot-controlled rapid charging system for e-vehicles

Global demand for electric vehicles is forecast to rise sharply: by 2025, the number of new vehicle registrations is expected to reach 25 million per year….

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Universal Quantum Computer Advances with Holonomic Gates

Researchers have demonstrated holonomic quantum gates under zero-magnetic field at room temperature, which will enable the realization of fast and…

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Smartphone Tracker Apps: Uncovering Serious Security Risks

Tracker apps provide a means for legitimate personal tracking, i.e. for parents to locate their children. Many tracker apps, however, contain serious security…

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New Concepts in Switchable Plasmonic Nanodevices

Plasmonic waveguides open the possibility to develop dramatically miniaturized optical devices and provide a promising route towards the next-generation of…

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UCLA’s AI Device Identifies Objects at Light Speed

A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineers has created a physical artificial neural network — a device modeled on how the human brain works — that can…

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Trapping light that doesn't bounce off track for faster electronics

A new protective metamaterial “cladding” prevents light from leaking out of the very curvy pathways it would travel in a computer chip.

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Key Weakness Uncovered in Modern Computer Vision Systems

But research by Brown University scientists shows that computers fail miserably at a class of tasks that even young children have no problem with: determining…

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Supercomputing the 'how' of chemical reactions

Sometimes, when experimental scientists get their hands on a supercomputer, it can change the course of their careers and open up new questions for exploration.

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NIST Chip Powers Optical Neural Network Demonstration

The human brain has billions of neurons (nerve cells), each with thousands of connections to other neurons. Many computing research projects aim to emulate the…

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