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Grad Students Develop Robot That Paints Like a Human
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Grad Students Develop Robot That Paints Like a Human

Graduate students at Georgia Institute of Technology have built a graffiti-painting robot system that uses motion capture technology to record human motions then...

Roaches Help Researchers Steady Staggering Robots
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Roaches Help Researchers Steady Staggering Robots

Researchers at Georgia Tech leveraged the cockroach's superb scurrying skills to create a simple method to assess and improve locomotion in robots.

More Workers Might Not Mean More Work Gets Done, Study Shows
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More Workers Might Not Mean More Work Gets Done, Study Shows

For ants and robots operating in confined spaces like tunnels, having more workers does not necessarily mean getting more work done.

Merging Antenna and Electronics Boosts Energy and Spectrum Efficiency
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Merging Antenna and Electronics Boosts Energy and Spectrum Efficiency

Researchers have integrating the design of millimeter wave antennas and electronics to allow the simultaneous optimization of both, creating a new class of millimeter...

Apollo Astronauts Had Trouble Sticking to the Plan on Moon
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Apollo Astronauts Had Trouble Sticking to the Plan on Moon

Apollo moonwalkers often fell behind schedule while walking or driving on the lunar surface, according to a new report.

The Force Is Strong: Amputee Controls Individual Prosthetic Fingers
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The Force Is Strong: Amputee Controls Individual Prosthetic Fingers

Luke Skywalker's bionic hand is a step closer to reality for amputees in this galaxy. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created an ultrasonic...

Novel Circuit Design Boosts Wearable Thermoelectric Generators
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Novel Circuit Design Boosts Wearable Thermoelectric Generators

Researchers have demonstrated proof-of-concept wearable thermoelectric generators that can harvest energy from body heat to power simple wearable devices.

Triboelectric Nanogenerators Boost Mass Spectrometry Performance
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Triboelectric Nanogenerators Boost Mass Spectrometry Performance

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown that replacing conventional power supplies with triboelectric nanogenerators can boost the sensitivity...

Robotic Cleaning Technique Could Automate Neuroscience Research
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Robotic Cleaning Technique Could Automate Neuroscience Research

A robotic technique for cleaning the tiny patch-clamp pipettes that record signals from brain neurons could facilitate a new level of automation in neuroscience...

Engineered 'sand' May Help Cool Electronic Devices
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Engineered 'sand' May Help Cool Electronic Devices

A new class of high thermal conductivity materials could allow heat dissipation from power electronics, LEDs, and other applications with high heat fluxes.

Robot Helps Study How First Land Animals Moved 360 Million Years Ago
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Robot Helps Study How First Land Animals Moved 360 Million Years Ago

A study on how early terrestrial animals began moving on mud and sand 360 million years ago could help designers create amphibious robots able to move across granular...

Liquid Cooling Moves Onto the Chip For Denser Electronics
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Liquid Cooling Moves Onto the Chip For Denser Electronics

Using microfluidic passages cut directly into the backsides of production integrated circuits, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are putting liquid...

Disappearing Carbon Circuits on Graphene Could Have Security, Biomedical Uses
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Disappearing Carbon Circuits on Graphene Could Have Security, Biomedical Uses

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a technique for creating dynamic patterns on graphene surfaces.

Optical Rectenna — Combined Rectifier-Antenna — Converts Light to Dc Current
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Optical Rectenna — Combined Rectifier-Antenna — Converts Light to Dc Current

Researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the functions of an antenna and a rectifier diode to convert light directly into...

Single Chip Device to Provide Real-Time 3-D Images from Inside the Heart and Blood Vessels
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Single Chip Device to Provide Real-Time 3-D Images from Inside the Heart and Blood Vessels

Researchers have developed the technology for a catheter-based device that would provide real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside a human's heart, coronary...

3-D Cooling Could Improve Heat Dissipation in High-Powered Chips
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3-D Cooling Could Improve Heat Dissipation in High-Powered Chips

Researchers at Georgia Tech have won a three-year, $2.9 million DARPA contract to develop three-dimensional chip-cooling technology able to handle heat loads...

Robots ­sing Tools: Researchers Aim to Create 'macgyver' Robot
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Robots ­sing Tools: Researchers Aim to Create 'macgyver' Robot

A Georgia Tech research team has received a grant from the Office of Naval Research to work on a project that intends to teach robots how to use objects in their...

Intuitive Visual Control Provides Faster Robot Operation
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Intuitive Visual Control Provides Faster Robot Operation

Using a novel method of integrating video technology and familiar control devices, a research team from Georgia Tech and the Georgia Tech Research Institute is...
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