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Researchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts from Land to Sea with Ease
Soft robots developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University can transition from walking to swimming or crawling to rolling… From ACM TechNewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Researchers Develop Flexible, Stretchable Photonic Devices
Researchers have made flexible and stretchable photonic devices using a specialized type of glass formed into a spring-like coil.
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Crowdsourcing Big-Data Analysis
FeatureHub is a new collaboration tool designed to make feature identification more efficient and effective.
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Let Your Car Tell You What It Needs
Researchers are developing software that measures automotive sounds and communicates any service requirements and other diagnostic information to drivers via a...
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Fast-Moving Magnetic Particles Could Enable New Form of Data Storage
Researchers have shown they can create tiny disturbances in magnetic orientation at will in specific locations, which they say could be used to make a more efficient...
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'superhero' Robot Wears Different Outfits For Different Tasks
Primer is a shape-shifting robot that can reconfigure itself into different exoskeletal "outfits" to perform distinct tasks.
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Making Datacenters More Energy Efficient
BlueCache is a more energy-efficient datacenter caching system that uses flash memory.
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sing Machine Learning to Improve Patient Care
Researchers are investigating how computers can enhance medical decisions.
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Automatic Image Retouching on Your Phone
Researchers have developed a cellphone-based system that can automatically retouch images.
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Reshaping Computer-Aided Design
Researchers have developed InstantCAD to facilitate interactive real-time editing, enhancement, and optimization of computer-aided design models via a simpler...
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Watch 3-D Movies at Home, Sans Glasses
"Home3D" allows users to watch three-dimensional movies without wearing special glasses.
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sing Chip Memory More Efficiently
Jenga is a new system that reallocates a chip's memory cache access in real time to create "cache hierarchies" designed to the needs of particular programs.
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Why Do Some Neighborhoods Improve?
Researchers have used a computer vision system to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five U.S. cities.
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New 3D Chip Combines Computing and Data Storage
A new computer chip integrates carbon nanotubes and resistive random-access memory cells.
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Practical Parallelism
Researchers have developed a system called Fractal that enables up to 88-fold acceleration in a parallelism strategy known as speculative execution.
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Drones That Drive
Researchers are developing robots that can maneuver around on land and fly through the air.
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Toward Optical Quantum Computing
Researchers at MIT have developed a device enabling photon-photon interactions at room temperature by applying a silicon crystal etched with patterns to introduce...
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Giving Robots a Sense of Touch
Researchers have mounted GelSight sensors on the grippers of robotic arms to provide robotic systems with greater sensitivity and dexterity.
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Wearable System Helps Visually Impaired sers Navigate
A new system to help visually impaired users navigate employs a three-dimensional camera, a belt with vibrational motors, and a refreshable Braille interface.
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Faster, More Nimble Drones on the Horizon
Researchers have developed an algorithm to tune a Dynamic Vision Sensor camera to detect only specific changes in brightness that matter for a particular system...
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