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3D reflectors help boost data rate in wireless communications

April 7, 2024

Soft robots use viscous fluids for complex motions

Image courtesy: Brett Sayles

Cornell to lead semiconductor research center

Courtesy: Charissa King-O'Brien, Cornell University

3D-printing robot can make construction more sustainable

Image courtesy: Brett Sayles

Mechanism ‘splits’ electron spins in magnetic material

Courtesy: Cornell University

AI and Machine Learning

Physical systems perform machine-learning computations

February 8, 2022

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Micro-robots propelled by air bubbles, ultrasound

October 3, 2021

This magnified image shows aluminum deposited on carbon fibers in a battery electrode. The chemical bond makes the electrode thicker and its kinetics faster, resulting in a rechargeable battery that is safer, less expensive and more sustainable than lithium-ion batteries. Courtesy: Cornell University

Aluminum-anode batteries offer sustainable alternative

April 11, 2021

Cornell researchers in the Organic Robotics Lab designed a 3D-printed glove lined with stretchable fiber-optic sensors that use light to detect a range of deformations in real time. Courtesy: Cornell University

Vision and Discrete Sensors

Stretchable sensor gives robots and VR a human touch

November 18, 2020

Vision and Discrete Sensors

Nanoscale microscopic sensors see the light

April 27, 2020

A Cornell team led by Rob Shepherd, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, made a 3D-printed hand with hydraulically controlled fingers that can cool itself by sweating. Courtesy: Cornell University

Researchers create 3D-printed, sweating robot muscle

February 5, 2020

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Zinc-anode batteries have high energy density, low cost

November 7, 2019

Ph.D. student Reet Chaudhuri takes measurements on the 2-D hole gas. Courtesy: Cornell University

Semiconductor discovery could improve electronics, wireless communication

October 4, 2019

A flexible, porous lattice structure is threaded with stretchable optical fibers containing more than a dozen mechanosensors and attached to an LED light. When the lattice structure is pressed, the sensors pinpoint changes in the photon flow. Courtesy: Cornell University

Optical lace developed to heighten robots’ sensors

September 20, 2019

Bacteria laying on a thin layer of quantum dots are probed with a laser. Courtesy: Cornell University

Interdisciplinary team awarded grant to research bioenergy conversion

September 6, 2019