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The hidden spring in your step
Researchers reveal the way our legs adapt to fast movements. When people hop at high speeds, key muscle fibers in the calf shorten rather than lengthe...
Smart insoles that could change the game for sports and hea…
Scientists have created a smart insoles prototype that can accurately measure the body's interaction with the ground, which has the potential to help...
Revolutionizing touch: Researchers explore the future of we…
From virtual reality to rehabilitation and communication, haptic technology has revolutionized the way humans interact with the digital world. While e...
Engineer develops new security protocol to protect miniatur…
Scientists recently unveiled a first-of-its-kind authentication protocol for wireless, battery-free, ultraminiaturized implants that ensures these dev...
Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a…
Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be use...
Paralyzed man moves robotic arm with his thoughts
Researchers have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm through a device that relays signals from his brain to a computer. He was abl...
Feeling is believing: Bionic hand 'knows' what it's touchin…
Engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conf...
New ocelot chip makes strides in quantum computing
Scientists demonstrate a new quantum chip architecture for suppressing errors using a type of qubit known as a cat qubit....
Sea water purification technique outperforms commonly used …
A research group has discovered a new technique for improving the electrodes that convert seawater into potable water using oxygen. Their improved mat...
Biohybrid hand gestures with human muscles
A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been created. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown muscle tissue bundle...
Progress and challenges in brain implants
A scientific team looks at the progress and challenges in the research and development of brain implants. New achievements in the field of this techno...
'Unprecedented' level of control allows person without use …
A brain-computer interface, surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia, paralysis in all four limbs, provided an unprecedented level...
Fine-tuned brain-computer interface makes prosthetic limbs …
Two new articles document progress in neuroprosthetic technology that lets people feel the shape and movement of objects moving over the 'skin' of a b...
Advancements in neural implant research enhance durability
Neural implants contain integrated circuits (ICs) -- commonly called chips -- built on silicon. These implants need to be small and flexible to mimic...
Engineers grow 'high-rise' 3D chips
Researchers can now fabricate a 3D chip with alternating layers of semiconducting material grown directly on top of each other. The method eliminates...
Rethinking the quantum chip
Researchers have realized a new design for a superconducting quantum processor, aiming at a potential architecture for the large-scale, durable device...
X-ray vision: Seeing through the mystery of an X-ray emissi…
Since the 1960s, scientists who study X-rays, lightning and similar phenomena have observed something curious: In lab experiments replicating these oc...
Photonic processor could enable ultrafast AI computations w…
Researchers developed a fully integrated photonic processor that can perform all the key computations of a deep neural network on a photonic chip, usi...