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Reorganization of prefrontal cortex circuitry during adolescence enables cognitive maturation of mice
Neuroscientists have been trying for decades to understand how the brains of humans and other animals develop throughout the lifespan. While their work has gathered much insight into brain...
Self-organizing robotic aggregate design inspired by flowing and rigid behaviors of sandpiles
Researchers at the University of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology recently developed Granulobot, a new modular robotic system that can change its physical shape to best navigate...
Remembering Caroline Haslett, a Staunch Advocate for Women in Engineering
In celebration of Women’s History Month, this article spotlights the inspiring life and groundbreaking accomplishments of British electrical engineer Caroline Haslett, an early advocate of women’s...
A new framework to collect training data and teach robots new manipulation policies
In recent years, roboticists and computer scientists have been trying to develop increasingly efficient methods to teach robots new skills. Many of the methods developed so far, however, require a...
A skating, tri-pedal robot capable of highly stable locomotion
Researchers at University of Michigan recently developed SKOOTR, a tri-pedal skating robot that can efficiently move around in its surroundings without repeatedly flipping over. This robot,...
A system that allows home robots to cook in collaboration with humans
Home robots could assist humans with the completion of various chores and manual tasks, ranging from washing dishes or doing the laundry to cooking, cleaning and tidying up. While many roboticists...
Intel introduces approach to boost power efficiency, reliability of packaged chiplet ecosystems
The integration of electronic chips in commercial devices has significantly evolved over the past decades, with engineers devising various integration strategies and solutions. Initially, computers...
The realization of aqueous flow batteries with mild pH decoupling
Technologies that can store the energy produced by photovoltaics and wind turbines could play a key role in the decarbonization of the energy sector. The operation of both solar cells and wind...
Study offers insights into neural mechanisms involved in progression from aggressive motivation to action
The social behaviors of humans and animals often unfold over two distinct phases, namely a motivational and an action phase. The first of these phases entails instinctual and reward-seeking mental...
An approach to realize in-sensor dynamic computing and advance computer vision
The rapid advancement in machine learning techniques and sensing devices over the past decades have opened new possibilities for the detection and tracking of objects, animals, and people. The...