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APRIL 2, 2025

The sensation of touch is the most personal connection that you can have with another individual, says John Rogers , a professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who led the project. Beyond just buzzing, the device simulates sensations like pinching, stretching, and tapping for a more realistic experience.

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APRIL 19, 2025

When Marc Alan Sperber, of Arizona State Universitys Education for Humanity initiative arrived at a refugee camp along the Thai - Myanmar border, the scene was typical of many crisis zones: no internet, unreliable power, and few resources. The real challenge isnt just getting technology into the field, its keeping it running, says Estupin.

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APRIL 11, 2025

MIT engineers developed an insect-sized jumping robot that can traverse challenging terrains while using far less energy than an aerial robot of comparable size. MIT ] CubiX is a wire-driven robot that connects to the environment through wires, with drones used to establish these connections. JSK Lab ] Thanks, Shintaro!

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APRIL 18, 2025

The team wants to turn these cables into a sensor network , capable of monitoring the environment around a cable for possible damage. In a panel discussion about the future of innovation, Princeton engineering dean Andrea Goldsmith said, Ive never been more worried about the innovation ecosystem in the US.

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MARCH 5, 2025

Supernova explosions, the catastrophic self-destruction of certain types of worn-out stars, are intimately tied to life on Earth because they are the birthplaces of heavy elements across the universe. But eventually, the scaling process stagnated and engineers were forced to switch to shorter wavelengths.

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APRIL 17, 2025

The cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) doesnt occur just at NASA, or one of the top university labs, but instead is increasingly being developed in the warehouses of the e-commerce company Amazon. We want AI that understands the physics of the environment, not just basic object recognition.

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APRIL 20, 2025

Eight years ago, Samueli, then a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who had been pushing the state of the art of digital broadband communications for more than a decade, joined with his Ph.D. The teacher predicted that Samueli would be a successful electrical engineer someday. It is a thrilling environment.

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MAY 12, 2025

That study was led by the three of us: a developmental psychologist ( Vikram Jaswal at the University of Virginia), an electrical and software engineer (Diwakar Krishnamurthy at the University of Calgary), and a computer scientist ( Mea Wang , also at the University of Calgary). Our journey to this point was not smooth.

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MAY 20, 2025

The IEEE Board of Directors shapes the future direction of IEEE and is committed to ensuring IEEE remains a strong and vibrant organizationserving the needs of its members and the engineering and technology community worldwide while fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Clem Karl, and Yong Lian.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Right now, such tattoos dont exist, but the key technology is being worked on in labs around the world, including my lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. And well be able to conduct long-term studies that track the vital signs of apparently healthy individuals as well as the parameters of their environments.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Scott Palo , professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, says that establishing an inter-satellite optical communications network is one of the biggest challenges in satellite-based wireless and broadband networks. Kuipers Satellite Catch-up To be fair, Kuiper Systems hasnt exactly been sitting idle.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Robot Studio ] at [ University of Michigan ] Hard to believe that RoMeLa has been developing humanoid robots for 20 (!) RoMeLa ] at [ University of California Los Angeles ] In this demo, Reachy 2 autonomously sorts healthy and unhealthy foods. This work aims to bring ownership back to artists in the age of generative AI.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Videos of the attempts are comical, although any laughter comes at the expense of the many engineers who spent countless hours and millions of dollars to get to that point. Its definitely a testament to what can be accomplished when engineers rise to a challenge. Not a single entrant made it across the finish line.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Eleven years and a few “Alaska vehicles” with internal combustion engines later, he's found his electric stride with a Rivian R1T, a testament to the evolving EV landscape, even in the Last Frontier. He's working with the University of Alaska Anchorage office to collect EV and weather data to better understand charging efficiency and rates.

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APRIL 6, 2025

It exists as more than simply a car; it exists as a remembrance of engineering brilliance and aesthetic skill, a vehicle that represents the heart of present-day lavishness while reshaping the scope of adaptability. The A6 Avant presents a collection of engines that offer invigorating power, all while maintaining prominent effectiveness.

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JULY 9, 2025

To clarify, however, says Soroush Araei , a PhD candidate at MIT in electrical engineering and computer science , IoT-over-5G doesn’t mean that every node in a network will suddenly be getting its own phone number. The main goal here is that you have a single radio receiver that can be reused for different applications,” Araei says.

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APRIL 15, 2025

She probably is best known as the first woman to serve as a faculty member in the engineering college at Tennessee State University , in Nashville. Her pioneering spirit extended far beyond the classroom, however, as she continuously staked out new territory for women and Black professionals in engineering. Those were her own.

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MAY 29, 2025

When the platform for a prototype floating offshore wind turbine arrived at a dock in Searsport, Maine, on April 11, engineers at the University of Maine were ready to add a tower and a turbine and set it afloat in the Gulf of Maine. But on the very same day, university officials received a letter from the U.S. million grant.

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MAY 27, 2025

Carolina Cruz-Neira Employer: University of Central Florida Occupation: Computer-science professor Education: Bachelors degree in systems engineering, Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas; masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science, University of Illinois Chicago; Ph.D.

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MARCH 30, 2025

EHRs Need a Systems-Engineering Approach When it comes to embracing automation, the health care industry has historically moved at a snails pace, and when it does move, money goes to IT automation first. Canada, China, India, and Japan also have EHR system initiatives in place at varying levels of maturity.

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JULY 21, 2025

If a person has spent most of their life driving a combustion engine car, their brain anticipates acceleration after the rev of the engine, a warning that they are about to experience a change in speed. Yet, traveling in an EV for the first time is a new motion environment for the brain, which needs adaptation,” Emond explains.

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MAY 28, 2025

Last week, the federal government terminated hundreds of research grants to Harvard University professors from a broad range of fields of study. This comes on the heels of a conflict between Harvard, among other universities, and the Trump administration. In such environments, computing cant simply be an add-on.

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JULY 24, 2025

That is, computing for a long time embedded in hard-to-get-to places and surviving on battery power or energy they can scrounge from the environment. There’s a growing need for CPUs that can live life on the edge. The challenge for the startup will be economics, he predicts.

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MAY 2, 2025

The LYNX M20 series represents the worlds first wheeled-legged robot built specifically for challenging terrains and hazardous environments during industrial operation. And heres a bit more on how it was done, mostly with arms from Universal Robots. [ DEEP Robotics ] The latest OK Go music video includes lots of robots.

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JULY 24, 2025

And the UDG (universal domain graph) acts as the directory that keeps track of every entity along with its activities and relationships. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory frequently collaborates with multiple agencies, universities, and contractors, with each using different simulation environments and proprietary platforms.

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JULY 11, 2025

Toyota Research Institute ] Kinisi Robotics is advancing the frontier of physical intelligence by developing AI-driven robotic platforms capable of high-speed, autonomous pick-and-place operations in unstructured environments. University of Tokyo ] Thanks, Kento! Our work aims to change that. JSK Lab ] Thanks, Keita!

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JUNE 23, 2025

A new CubeSat called the Spacecraft for Advanced Research and Cooperative Studies (SPARCS) mission from researchers at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran hopes to contribute to that effort by testing an EDT and inter-satellite communication system as well as collecting real-time data on the radiation environment of its orbital path.

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JULY 5, 2025

The University of Queensland’s Dr. Thang Vo-Doan and Research Assistant Lachlan Fitzgerald have demonstrated they can remotely guide darkling beetles (Zophobas morio) fitted with the packs via video game controllers. Paper ] via [ University of Queensland ] Thanks, Thang!

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JUNE 20, 2025

We’ve been training models and evaluating their capabilities for dexterous sensorimotor policies across different embodiments, environments, and physical interactions. Norwegian University of Science and Technology ] via [ GitHub ] Thanks, Kostas! University of Sheffield ] We’re growing in size, scale, and impact!

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2021

NASA has selected four university-led teams for potential awards in the agency’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI) that will have them spend up to five years exploring novel ideas for improving aviation, including eliminating emissions and autonomy research in support of Advanced Air Mobility. Florida State University.

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MAY 18, 2021

Startup ClearFlame Engine Technologies announced a partnership with Alto Ingredients, a leading producer of specialty alcohols and essential ingredients, to conduct pilot demonstrations of ClearFlame’s solution for diesel engines using low-cost ethanol in Class 8 trucks. In fact, it increases power by 25%.

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AUGUST 15, 2021

A study by researchers at CU Boulder and Edinburgh Napier University finds that high-density, low-rise environments such as those found in Paris are the optimal urban form when looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over their whole life cycle. There is a growing belief that building taller and denser is better. Pomponi et al.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors and MathWorks launched the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, the latest DOE-sponsored Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition ( AVTC ), revealed the 12 competing universities and named the Chevrolet Blazer as the vehicle platform selected for the competition. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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JULY 12, 2018

Daimler and Chinese partner Tsinghua University signed an agreement further to deepen their research cooperation in the fields of automated driving and intelligent mobility. China today plays a leading role not only in terms of its automotive industry, but as an overall engine for innovation. —Prof.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Scientists are studying transition metals such as iron as a promising alternative to platinum, but they have found that they quickly degrade in the acidic PEM fuel cell environment. Along with PNNL, researchers from Washington University in St. Previous studies had shown that cobalt is far less active than iron-based catalysts.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nebrija University (Spain) students undertook the redesign and technological improvement of a car of the Sodicars team that took part in the 2023 Dakar Rally in the top-class category (T1).The The agreement focuses in particular on the redesign of and technological improvements to Sodicars’ BV2 vehicle.

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MAY 17, 2021

These conditions make its southern coastline an ideal test bed for exploring how environmental conditions influence the biological, physiological, and chemical properties of cultivated macroalgae, as well as the impact of seaweed farms on the surrounding environment. Credit: Loretta Roberson. Earlier post.).

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