A multinational team of researchers has unveiled a new safety system for autonomous machines that can allegedly react to danger faster than the human brain.
The study details how scientists from China, Britain, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, and…
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Scalable robot collective resilience by sharing resources
Science Robotics, Volume 11, Issue 111, February 2026.
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Bioinspired adaptive pupil reflex based on liquid-metal shape-shifters for machine vision
Science Robotics, Volume 11, Issue 111, February 2026.
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Why I'm building an office out of straw
When we moved into our house, there was a shed in the garden. Its timbers were rotten, the floor had long since disappeared into the ground, there was no door, the window had fallen out and various creatures had moved in.
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Cisco launches 102.4Tbps networking to scale AI data centers
Cisco has unveiled a new generation of AI-focused networking hardware designed to bring hyperscale-level performance to enterprises, service providers, and sovereign cloud builders as AI infrastructure expands beyond Big Tech.
At Cisco Live…
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Coal waste could become a new US source of rare earth elements
Coal mine waste could become an unexpected domestic source of rare earth elements as U.S. researchers look to reduce dependence on foreign supply chains critical to clean energy, electronics, and national defense.
Two professors at South…
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A hybrid ResNet50-vision transformer model with an attention mechanism for aerial image classification
Dataset
The SAIOD dataset24 was created by gathering aerial images from the Indian state of Sikkim. This data was collected using a DJI Mavic Air drone. The landscape consists of rivers, forests, gorges, hills, undulating surfaces, and populated…
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Optimization of mix proportions and hydration study of high-strength concrete incorporating corn stalk ash and silica fume as supplementary cementitious materials
Monteiro, P. J. M., Miller, S. A. & Horvath, A. Towards Sustainable Concrete Nat. Mate 7, 698–699, https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4930 (2017).
Atcin, P. C. Cements of yesterday and…
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Computational assessment of flow dynamics and turbulence generation in hydrofoil-crested weirs
Castro-Orgaz, O. Curvilinear flow over round-crested weirs. J. Hydraul. Res. 46 (4), 543–547 (2008).
Schmocker, L., Halldórsdóttir, B. R. & Hager, W. H. Effect of weir face angles on…
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Sequential model predictive direct speed control of PMSM
Preindl, M. & Bolognani, S. Model predictive direct speed control with finite control set of PMSM drive systems. IEEE Trans. Power Electron. 28, 1007–1015. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2012.2204277 (2013).
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