1+ week, 1+ day ago   (60+ words) Scientists have unveiled a new artificial intelligence framework that dramatically improves a robot’s ability to find and trace the slender stalks that connect tomatoes to the vine—a problem that has long stymied efforts to automate one of agriculture’s most…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (772+ words) Robots are increasingly expected to manipulate objects in the messy, unpredictable world beyond the laboratory, yet most reinforcement learning systems still rely on hand-crafted rewards that spell out exactly what the robot should do. A new study tackles a harder…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (574+ words) A nationwide study in Japan has found that robotic gastrectomy may provide several measurable advantages over conventional laparoscopic surgery for people undergoing treatment for gastric cancer....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (870+ words) In a development that could reshape how limb-lengthening surgery is delivered in resource-constrained hospitals around the world, a team of mechatronics engineers in Peru has built and validated a low-cost automated distraction system that converts a manually operated external fixator…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (691+ words) Every spacecraft that tumbles, spins, or reorients itself in orbit does so according to a property that engineers cannot afford to guess: the mass moment of inertia....

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (902+ words) In a development that could reshape how scientists study the mechanics of human movement, a team of biomedical engineers and computer scientists has unveiled an open-source software tool capable of tracking the tiny, intricate bones of the wrist as they…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (765+ words) Sensor Networks Bioengineer.org Underwater wireless sensor networks have long promised a revolution in how humanity monitors the ocean—tracking marine life, detecting pollution, safeguarding ports, and supporting offshore infrastructure Yet these networks remain among the most difficult wireless systems…...

1+ day, 21+ 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…...

1+ day, 10+ 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....