Evolution vs. Engineering: Why Can’t Robots Outrun Animals?
Despite superior individual components, robots lag behind animals in overall performance, suggesting a future focus on better system integration and control in robotics. Robotics engineers…
Despite superior individual components, robots lag behind animals in overall performance, suggesting a future focus on better system integration and control in robotics. Robotics engineers…
Scientists have developed a new method to control the relaxation time of ferroelectric capacitors using 2D materials, significantly enhancing their energy storage capabilities. This innovation…
Scientists have developed a metafluid with programmable response. Scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a…
Imaging being able to wear your smartphone on your wrist, not as a watch, but literally as a flexible band that surrounds around your arm….
Researchers observe the quantum coherence of a quintet state with four electron spins in molecular systems for the first time at room temperature. In a…
Drawing inspiration from the extraordinary adaptability seen in biological entities such as the octopus, a significant advancement in the field of soft robotics has been…
Study finds chiral structures, with mirror-image configurations, can emerge from nonchiral systems, suggesting new ways to engineer these materials. Hold your hands out in front…
MIT’s ultrasound sticker enables continuous monitoring of organ stiffness, revolutionizing the early detection of diseases such as liver and kidney failure. MIT engineers have developed…
High-speed experiments can help identify lightweight, protective “metamaterials” for spacecraft, vehicles, helmets, or other objects. An intricate, honeycomb-like structure of struts and beams could withstand…
Football players (and anyone else who takes hard hits) may want to breathe a sigh of relief. In recent research, engineers at the University of…
Researchers have initiated the process of identifying liquid solvents that could potentially be used to extract essential construction materials from the dust of lunar and…
Scientists outline new processes for leveraging hafnia’s ferroelectric features with the aim of enhancing high-performance computing. Scientists and engineers have been pushing for the past…
Their technique could transform a scientific field reliant on cost-prohibitive technology. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a light-based means of printing…
Approximately 50% of the energy used in a typical American building is dedicated to heating and cooling. That’s a lot of money spent, fossil fuel…
Scientists led by the University of Leicester have made an insight into superlubricity, where surfaces experience extremely low levels of friction. While many of us…
A team headed by Professor Mingxin Huang from the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has achieved a significant advancement in the field…
North Carolina State University researchers have discovered a new welding method for composite metal foam (CMF), preserving its light, strong, and thermally insulating properties, vital…
On the highway of heat transfer, thermal energy is moved by way of quantum particles called phonons. But at the nanoscale of today’s most cutting-edge…