Communications of the ACM
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Engineers 3D-Print Soft, Rubbery Brain Implants
Engineers have developed a way to three-dimensionally print neural probes and other electronic devices that are as soft and flexible as rubber.
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Wearable Strain Sensor Using Light Transmittance Helps Measure Physical Signals Better
A new wearable strain sensor can complete sensitive, stable, and continuous measurements of physical signals.
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Robots Use Light Beams to Zap Hospital Viruses
A robotic system uses eight UV-C ultraviolet-light-emitting bulbs to destroy bacteria, viruses, and other harmful microbes.
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Soil Sifters
Algorithms and supercomputers help tease out how soil microbes affect global climate.
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MIT Aims to Turn Wi-Fi Signals Into Usable Power With Energy-Harvesting Design
Device for harnessing terahertz radiation might enable self-powering implants, cellphones, other portable electronics.
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A.I. Versus the Coronavirus
A new consortium of top scientists will be able to use some of the world's most advanced supercomputers to look for solutions.
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Bring in the Robot Cleaners: Travel Industry Innovations for the Pandemic
"Private" hotels, online tour-company teasers for future travelers, and other ways that travel companies are keeping their businesses alive.
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Attack on Home Routers Sends Users to Spoofed Sites That Push Malware
Researchers are warning that a hack of Linksys and D-Link routers is redirecting users to malicious sites posing as COVID-19 informational resources.
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Synergy Emergence in Deep Reinforcement Motor Learning
Researchers have observed something similar to motor synergy in robotic agents using deep reinforcement learning algorithms.
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Researchers Use 3D Printing, Sensors to Create Models for Hydropower Testing
Researchers are using three-dimensional printers and sensors to create fake fish to help test the environmental impact of hydroelectric dams on fish populations...
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System Trains Driverless Cars in Simulation Before They Hit the Road
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have created a simulation system to train driverless cars prior to their deployment on actual streets.
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This Drone Can Play Dodgeball
Researchers equipped a quadcopter with event cameras and algorithms to reduce its reaction time and enable it to avoid a ball thrown at it from a short distance...
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Stanford Engineers Create Shape-Changing, Free-Roaming Soft Robot
Researchers have developed a human-scale soft robot that can reconfigure its shape to grasp and handle objects.
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Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey
Technologies are coming increasingly closer to approximating the human senses of taste and smell.
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Coronavirus Highlights Strengths of Self-Driving Delivery Vehicles
With quarantines across China, one company is showing the usefulness of autonomous vehicles.
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Robots Step in as Cheap Labor Dries Up in Eastern Europe
Factory owners in Eastern European are investing in automation to counter a shortage of workers and rising wages.
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Let Evolution Design Your Robot
A U.K. research project uses evolutionary principles to design robots to help dismantle decommissioned nuclear power plants.
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Intel to Release Neuromorphic Computing System
Pohoiki Springs, an experimental system to be rolled out this month, mimics the way human brains work to do computations faster with less energy
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Intel Trains Neuromorphic Chip to Detect Odors
Intel and Cornell University researchers have trained Intel's Loihi neuromorphic processor to identify 10 materials from their odors.
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Robots on the March to Walking Like Humans
Researchers have found that the better a robot can balance, the better prepared it will be for walking like a human.12