by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 31, 2025 | Engineering, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
In recent years, roboticists have developed a wide range of systems that could eventually be introduced in health care and assisted living facilities. These include both medical robots and robots designed to provide companionship or assistance to human users.
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 31, 2025 | Energy & Green Tech, Engineering, TECHXPLORE
Solid-state lithium batteries are promising energy storage solutions that utilize solid electrolytes as opposed to the liquid or gel electrolytes found in traditional lithium-ion batteries (LiBs). Compared to LiBs and other batteries that are used worldwide, these...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 31, 2025 | General Physics, PHYS.ORG, Physics, Soft Matter
Colloidal gels are complex systems made up of microscopic particles dispersed in a liquid, ultimately producing a semi-solid network. These materials have unique and advantageous properties that can be tuned using external forces, which have been the focus of various...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 31, 2025 | Optics & Photonics, PHYS.ORG, Physics
Reliably measuring the polarization state of light is crucial for various technological applications, ranging from optical communication to biomedical imaging. Yet conventional polarimeters are made of bulky components, which makes them difficult to reduce in size and...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 31, 2025 | Computer Sciences, Machine learning & AI, TECHXPLORE
Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland recently developed MyTimeMachine (MyTM), a new AI-powered method for personalized age transformation that can make human faces in images or videos appear younger or older,...
