1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (679+ words) A team of researchers in Peru has built a system that can fly a drone over a Hass avocado orchard and, in real time, tell a farmer not only where every visible fruit is hanging but also how ripe each…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (68+ words) A voice-controlled home robot that can navigate a house, switch appliances on and off, and hold a natural conversation in multiple languages has been built for less than 10,000 rupees — roughly one-fifth of the cost of comparable commercial systems. The robot,…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (631+ words) Deep inside the intervertebral disc — the resilient cushion that sits between the vertebrae of the spine — a small population of cells works quietly for decades to keep the tissue functional....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (78+ words) Robots may soon be able to feel the world with something approaching the sensitivity of human skin, thanks to a flexible pressure sensor that borrows its cleverness from an unusual marriage of materials: tiny spherical iron particles and ultrathin sheets…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (115+ words) Misplacing your keys, glasses, wallet or phone is one of those small domestic frustrations that almost everyone knows intimately. But for millions of older adults, and especially for people living with dementia, losing track of everyday objects is far more…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (55+ words) A robotic platform that rolls quietly between rows of potted lettuce, fusing depth cameras with multispectral sensors, may soon transform how scientists measure the earliest and most fragile stage of crop life. Researchers at the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (69+ words) A quiet revolution is unfolding across the world’s farmland, one articulated arm and autonomous wheel at a time. A new state-of-the-art review published in the International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications takes stock of how robotics is reshaping agriculture,…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (656+ words) A new comprehensive review published in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials maps out how researchers are building a fundamentally new kind of sensor: soft, flexible devices that can simultaneously feel pressure, strain, temperature, humidity, gases and biochemical cues, and then…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (91+ words) Deep inside every jet engine, turbine blades endure one of the harshest environments in engineering. Spinning at tremendous speeds, exposed to extreme temperatures, intense pressures and violent vibrations, these components gradually degrade, with the blade crown in particular suffering from…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (54+ words) In what could reshape how search-and-rescue teams, security services, and environmental scientists deploy autonomous systems, researchers have unveiled a decentralized algorithm that allows a network of robots to track more moving targets than there are robots in the network — a…...