Phase-change actuation has been revived for the era of untethered, electrically driven soft robots. Our team at the University of Coimbra have developed a phase transition soft actuator designed to ...

Prepare to be stunned by 66 unbelievable heavy machinery machines that you truly have to see to believe! These massive ...

Get ready to be amazed by 77 incredible heavy-duty machines that will completely blow your mind! These engineering marvels are built to dominate the most extreme tasks—crushing, lifting, digging, ...

Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night sky shines ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal ...

MIT roboticists developed a way to cut through data noise and help robots focus on the features in a scene that are most ...

Overall, the robot was able to predict a human's objective with 90% accuracy and to identify relevant objects with 96% accuracy ... with humans," says Kamal Youcef-Toumi, professor of mechanical ...

For example, the beams can probe characteristics ... different focal spots to look more closely at particular parts of objects, improving commonly used imaging techniques such as neutron ...

which dissolved some of the bonds and turned the objects back into a liquid. Repeatedly recycling the plastic did little to alter its mechanical properties, which the authors could modify by ...

While the former exhibition had a larger percentage of British silver, CWF said nearly half of the objects on display in the new exhibition are examples of early American-made silver, many of ...

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