Claire chatted to Yuen Ting Chan from Natural History Museum about using robots to automate molecular biology experiments.
Yuen Ting Chan has nearly 20 years of experience working on…
Category: Engineering
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COMSOL Multiphysics Improves Battery and Grid Designs
A prototyping problem is emerging in today’s efforts to electrify everything. What works as a lab-bench mockup breaks in reality. Harnessing and safely storing energy at grid scale and in cars, trucks, and planes is a very hard problem that…
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New Model Helps Robots See in 3D
CMU, Meta Researchers Develop Universal System for 3D Reconstruction
October 16, 2025 Mallory Lindahl
The Breakdown:
- Researchers developed a model that converts data into precise 3D maps.
- Trained on real-world scenes,…
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Electric Era’s EV Chargers Boost Grid Efficiency
As a young SpaceX engineer, Quincy Lee led a rollout of hundreds of terrestrial antennas for Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet service. The project covered three continents, took just 24 months, and turned out to be great preparation for Lee’s…
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Where Was This Photo Taken? AI Knows Instantly
Imagine playing a new, slightly altered version of the game GeoGuessr. You’re faced with a photo of an average U.S. house, maybe two floors with a front lawn in a cul-de-sac and an American flag flying proudly out front. But there’s nothing…
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What’s coming up at #IROS2025?
The 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) will be held from 19-25 October in Hangzhou, China. The programme includes plenary and keynote talks, workshops, tutorials, forums, competitions, and a…
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Scientists build artificial neurons that work like real ones
Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed an artificial neuron whose electrical activity closely matches that of natural brain cells. The innovation builds on the team’s earlier research using protein nanowires made from…
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From sea to space, this robot is on a roll
Rishi Jangale and Derek Pravecek with RoboBall III. Image credit: Emily Oswald/Texas A&M Engineering.
By Alyssa Schaechinger
While working at NASA in 2003, Dr. Robert Ambrose, director of the…
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90% of science is lost. This new AI just found it
Most scientific data never reach their full potential to drive new discoveries.
Out of every 100 datasets produced, about 80 stay within the lab, 20 are shared but seldom reused, fewer than two meet FAIR standards, and only one typically leads to…
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Solid-State Transformers Boost EV Charging Efficiency
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.
The rapid build-out of fast-charging stations for electric vehicles is testing the limits of today’s power grid. With individual chargers drawing…
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