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Smart Robot Vacuums Transform Office Cleaning Efficiency

Can you really use Outlook to make sure your office floor gets vacuumed? Absolutely! Fraunhofer IAO is currently developing an intelligent cleaning concept for…

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Smartphone-Powered Spectral Analyzer Detects Diseases Efficiently

“Our TRI Analyzer is like the Swiss Army knife of biosensing,” said Cunningham, the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering and director of the Micro +…

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First Real-Time Video Transmission via Terahertz Multiplexer

In the journal Nature Communications, the researchers report the transmission of two real-time video signals through a terahertz multiplexer at an aggregate…

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New Technique Enhances Optical Fiber Communication by Suppressing Sound Waves

A research collaboration between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the University of…

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Unlocking High-Resolution Design with Advanced 3-D Printing Software

Today's 3-D printers have a resolution of 600 dots per inch, which means that they could pack a billion tiny cubes of different materials into a volume that…

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The Future of Search Engines: How They Curate Relevant Links

How do search engines generate lists of relevant links?

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Automatic Real-Time Retouching for Cellphone Images

The data captured by today's digital cameras is often treated as the raw material of a final image. Before uploading pictures to social networking sites, even…

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Project FIND – Consortium Develops the Industrial Internet of Tomorrow

The FIND consortium is composed of leading proponents from industry and research who have joined together to develop the foundation for the industrial Internet…

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Enhancing Agriculture with Satellite Data for Sustainable Crop Production

Securing crop production on our planet in a sustainable way is one of the big challenges of our time, also with regard to climate change. On the one hand,…

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Magnetic Quantum Objects in a "Nano Egg-Box"

Speeding up data processing in computers goes hand in hand with a greater heat generation, which limits the performance of fast computers. Researchers have…

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3D Scanning with Water: New Technique for Complex Objects

A global team of computer scientists and engineers have developed an innovative technique that more completely reconstructs challenging 3D objects. An ancient…

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Future Mobile Internet Access: Key Innovations Unveiled

The world becomes more mobile and the requirements for transmitting pictures, videos, music and cloud data are increasing.

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New Technique for Manipulating Terahertz Radiation Polarization

The technique uses stacks of carefully spaced metal plates to make a polarizing beamsplitter, a device that splits a beam of light by its differing…

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Holograms Evolve: New Tech from University of Utah Engineers

Technology developed by a team of University of Utah electrical and computer engineers could make the holographic chess game R2-D2 and Chewbacca played in…

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Helping Robots Learn 3-D Vision for Real-World Tasks

– Autonomous robots can inspect nuclear power plants, clean up oil spills in the ocean, accompany fighter planes into combat and explore the surface of Mars.

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Robots Learn to Follow Spoken Instructions More Effectively

The research was led by Dilip Arumugam and Siddharth Karamcheti, both undergraduates at Brown when the work was performed (Arumugam is now a Brown graduate…

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