Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin are one step closer to delivering smart windows with a new level of energy efficiency, engineering materials that…
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Improving object recognition for robots
MIT have developed a monocular SLAM-aware object recognition system that is able to achieve considerably stronger recognition performance, as compared to classical object recognition systems that function on a frame-by-frame basis. By…
Researchers opened a new test city for driverless cars
The University of Michigan opened the world’s first controlled environment, Mcity, specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies that will lead the way to mass-market driverless cars….
Solar fuel cell producing hydrogen fuel will boost the yield by tenfold
A solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and FOM Foundation have presented a very promising prototype of this in the journal Nature Communications….
New technology ends finger pricking for people with diabetes
A team at University of Leeds have developed a new technology which uses a small device with low-powered lasers to measure blood glucose levels without penetrating the skin. It could give people…