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A team of scientists has created a new shape-changing polymer that could transform how future soft materials are constructed.

A team of roboticists at the Beijing Institute of Technology, working with a pair of colleagues from the Technical University of Munich, has created a new kind of rat robot—one that was designed to interact in social ways with real rats.

Like waves sweeping through tiny stadium crowds, microscopic machines engineered by Cornell researchers can autonomously synchronize their movements, opening new possibilities for the use of microrobots in drug delivery, chemical mixing and environmental remediation, among other applications.

A Silicon Valley Maverick Steps into Washington David Sacks, a tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the White House’s inaugural “AI and Crypto Czar.” This unconventional appointment promises to merge the worlds of Silicon Valley innovation and Washington policymaking. Sacks, a PayPal co-founder and ally of...

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A team has developed flexible fibers with self-healing, light-emitting and magnetic properties. The scalable hydrogel-clad ionotronic nickel-core electroluminescent (SHINE) fiber is bendable, emits highly visible light, and can automatically repair itself after being cut, regaining nearly 100% of its original brightness. In addition, the fiber can be powered wirelessly and manipulated physically using magnetic forces.

A team of interdisciplinary scientists has developed flexible fibers with self-healing, light-emitting and magnetic properties. The Scalable Hydrogel-clad Ionotronic Nickel-core Electroluminescent (SHINE) fiber is bendable, emits highly visible light, and can automatically repair itself after being cut, regaining nearly 100 per cent of its original brightness. In addition, the fiber can be powered wirelessly and manipulated physically using magnetic forces.

Researchers have built a drone that can walk, hop, and jump into flight with the aid of birdlike legs, greatly expanding the range of potential environments accessible to unmanned aerial vehicles.

This year, continued economic uncertainty and geopolitical disruption are once again complicating peak season planning, compounded by the ongoing industry-wide labor shortage which makes it harder to scale the workforce fast enough to meet demand.

Claire chatted to Christos Bergeles from King’s College London about micro-surgical robots to deliver therapies deep inside the body.

Christos Bergeles received his PhD in Robotics from ETH Zurich in Switzerland in 2011. As a Professor at King’s College London, he directs the “Robotics and Vision in Medicine Lab” whose mission is to develop micro-surgical robots that deliver regenerative therapies deep inside the human body. He holds funding for the development of instrumentation that delivers stem cells to diseased retinal layers in the eye. He and his team are very active in public engagement and patient involvement activities, such as New Scientist Live and the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.

Quadruped robots integrating manipulators could potentially tackle tasks that entail manipulating objects while swiftly moving around in their surrounding environment. These include tasks such as collecting the trash around the house, collecting specific objects and bringing them to humans or depositing target items at specific locations.

OpenAI’s unveiling of ChatGPT Pro, priced at a steep $200 per month, has sparked widespread debate about whether the premium tier justifies its cost. While the new subscription offers significant advancements in AI capabilities, including access to its o1 reasoning model and other enhanced features, the question remains: Is this new tier worth the hefty...

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Advancing adaptive AI agents, empowering 3D scene creation, and innovating LLM training for a smarter, safer future

Advancing adaptive AI agents, empowering 3D scene creation, and innovating LLM training for a smarter, safer future

Advancing adaptive AI agents, empowering 3D scene creation, and innovating LLM training for a smarter, safer future

Advancing adaptive AI agents, empowering 3D scene creation, and innovating LLM training for a smarter, safer future