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Fun Innovations Friday: Light-Absorbing Material Turns Any Object Into Solar Panel
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Turning Ordinary Surfaces Into Power Generators

Aug. 16, 2024
Scientists at Oxford University Physics Department have developed a new way to generate solar electricity without the need for silicon-based solar panels with a new power-generating...
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Fun Innovations Friday: Artificial Intelligence Is Helping People Avoid Car Rental Nightmares

July 19, 2024
ProovStation has found a use for AI in the car rental industry, making a frustrating process more transparent and worry-free.
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There's a New Type of 3D Printing in Town and It Uses Lasers

July 12, 2024
FMAP combines 3D printing and lasers to create multimaterial, multilayered sensors and circuit boards, even going as far as printing sensors embedded within a structure.
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Robot Beats Guinness World Record of Fastest in the World to Solve Puzzle Cube

July 5, 2024
A Guinness World Record has been awarded to an engineering team from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation for creating a robot that can solve a puzzle cube in just 0.3 seconds— demonstrating...
Fun Innovations Friday: Robot Can Be Your Body-Double With Just 40 Hours of Learning
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Fun Innovations Friday: Robot Can Be Your Body-Double With Just 40 Hours of Learning

June 28, 2024
Researchers from Stanford University have created a robot that can essentially be your clone by learning and mimicking your movements.

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Boston Dynamics Creates Muppet-Like Fur Costume for Its Spot Robot and Teaches It to Dance

May 3, 2024
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Fun Innovations Friday: Skull Sculpting With World's First 3D Cranial Implants

April 26, 2024
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Manufacturing in Space, the Final Frontier

April 19, 2024
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is redefining the future of robotics with its research on in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM).
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3 Ways 3D Printing is Becoming Better, Faster, and Stronger

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