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How to Control Robots with Brainwaves and Hand Gestures
Getting robots to do things isn't easy: Usually, scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via language...
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MIT Engineers Configure RFID Tags to Work as Sensors
Researchers have developed an ultra-high-frequency radio-frequency identification tag-sensor configuration that senses spikes in glucose and wirelessly transmits...
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Novel Transmitter Protects Wireless Data From Hackers
A new transmitter can hack-proof wireless data by frequency hopping each individual 1 or 0 bit of a data packet, every microsecond.
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Ingestible 'Bacteria on a Chip' Could Help Diagnose Disease
A new ingestible sensor can help diagnose gastrointestinal problems.
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Albatross Robot Takes Flight
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created an albatross-like robot that can skim along the water's surface while also surfing the waves like a...
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Fundamental Equations Guide Marine Robots to Optimal Sampling Sites
Systems of mathematical equations can forecast the most informative data to collect for an autonomous underwater vehicle mission and the best way to reach the sampling...
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Fundamental Equations Guide Marine Robots to Optimal Sampling Sites
Observing the world's oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)—marine robots that are designed to drift, drive, or glide...
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Machine-Learning System Processes Sounds Like Humans Do
Researchers have used a deep neural network to build the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre....
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Artificial Antimicrobial Peptides Could Help Overcome Drug-Resistant Bacteria
A new streamlined approach to developing antimicrobial peptide drugs uses a computer algorithm that mimics natural evolution.
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Computer Searches Telescope Data for Evidence of Distant Planets
Researchers have trained a machine learning system to search for debris disks around stars using telescopic data.
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'Body on a Chip' Could Improve Drug Evaluation
A microfluidic platform links engineered tissues from multiple human organs to replicate organ-drug interactions so medications' effects on different parts of the...
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Seeing the Brain's Electrical Activity
Researchers say they have developed a light-sensitive protein that can indicate how much voltage a particular nerve cell is experiencing.
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Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'brain-on-a-Chip' Hardware
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can't be beat.
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Programmable Droplets
New hardware applies electric fields to manipulate droplets of chemical or biological solutions around a surface, mixing them to test thousands of reactions in...
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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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sing Artificial Intelligence to Improve Early Breast Cancer Detection
Researchers are working to apply artificial intelligence to improving the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer.
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sing Machine Learning to Improve Patient Care
Researchers are investigating how computers can enhance medical decisions.
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Designing the Microstructure of Printed Objects
Researchers have developed a design system to catalog the physical characteristics of a huge number of tiny cube clusters that can function as building blocks for...
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