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Snake-Inspired Robot Uses Kirigami for Agile Movement

Who needs legs? With their sleek bodies, snakes can slither up to 14 miles-per-hour, squeeze into tight space, scale trees and swim. How do they do it? It's…

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Fraunhofer HHI Launches First Volumetric Video Studio in Europe

The necessity to relocate the commercial production to a company is due in particular to the rapid market development of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented…

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Bees and Slime: Nature’s Mixed Results in Systems Engineering

Bees? Great. Ants? Hit or miss. Slime mold amoebas? Fail. Though nature offers excellent design inspirations in some information technology systems, in other…

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Japanese Researchers Unveil Ultrafine Elastic Skin Display

A new ultrathin, elastic display that fits snugly on the skin can show the moving waveform of an electrocardiogram recorded by a breathable, on-skin electrode…

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Unlocking Quantum Entanglement: Ensuring Computer Functionality

One of the main challenges is to make sure that a fully functional quantum computer is working as anticipated. In particular, scientists need to show that the…

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Digitalizing Brownfield Systems: A Simple Cloud Solution

How can an existing work unit be digitalized? Many manufacturing companies see this as a major issue for the vertical integration and retrofitting of their…

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Fraunhofer IPT and Ericsson to collaborate on 5G applications for production

Whenever Industrie 4.0 is mentioned, the general assumption is that processing and evaluating large volumes of data are part of the equation. Although modern…

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New Controls Enhance Quantum Chip Performance

Matt Reagor, lead author of the paper, says: “We've developed a technique that enables us to reduce interference between qubits as we add more and more qubits…

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GazeMining: Advancing Eye Tracking for Better Usability

Approximately one billion websites are operated worldwide. Good usability, i. e. user-friendliness, is of elementary importance in order to satisfy customers…

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Drones Navigate Autonomously by Imitating Cars and Bikes

All today’s commercial drones use GPS, which works fine above building roofs and in high altitudes. But what, when the drones have to navigate autonomously at…

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Dynamic Certificates Boost Security for Cloud Service Providers

Particularly for SMEs, it is often difficult to find a secure and reliable option among the many smaller cloud service providers on the market. On the back of…

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New Magnetic Materials Enhance Brain-Like Memory Storage

From various magnetic tapes, floppy disks and computer hard disk drives, magnetic materials have been storing our electronic information along with our…

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Wearable Sensors for Plants: Measuring Crop Water Use

This was no technical, precise, poster talk. This was a researcher interested in working with new, low-cost, easily produced, graphene-based, sensors-on-tape…

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Unlocking New Smartphone Features with Micro-Spectrometer

Spectrometry, the analysis of visible and invisible light, has an enormous range of applications. Every material and every tissue has its own 'footprint' in…

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New AI Method Enhances Data Privacy While Learning Models

“Previously you needed one party with unrestricted access to all the data. Our new method enables learning accurate models for example using data on user…

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Smartphone Emissions Analysis Reveals Security Vulnerabilities

This platform, whose objective is to improve smartphone security and that of other electronic devices, was recently presented in Canada in an international…

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