by Ingrid Fadelli | Sep 24, 2025 | Machine learning & AI, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
Recent advances in the field of robotics have enabled the automation of various real-world tasks, ranging from the manufacturing or packaging of goods in many industry settings to the precise execution of minimally invasive surgical procedures. Robots could also be...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Sep 24, 2025 | MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience, Psychology & Psychiatry
Understanding how people visually browse their surroundings and direct their gaze in specific situations is a long-standing goal among psychology researchers. Past studies suggest that humans exhibit oculomotor biases, which are tendencies that guide the way they look...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Sep 24, 2025 | Health Informatics, MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
The brains of humans and other primates are known to execute various sophisticated functions, one of which is the representation of the space immediately surrounding the body. This area, also sometimes referred to as “peripersonal space,” is where most...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Sep 24, 2025 | Optics & Photonics, PHYS.ORG, Physics, Quantum Physics
As the number of particles in a physical system increases, its properties can change and different phase transitions (i.e., shifts into different phases of matter) can take place. Microscopic systems (i.e., containing only a few particles) and macroscopic ones (i.e.,...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Sep 24, 2025 | Machine learning & AI, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
The loss of a limb following an injury, accident or disease can greatly reduce quality of life, making it harder for people to engage in daily activities. Yet recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of more comfortable,...