Teaching AI to design optical surfaces using real-world imperfections

Designing surfaces that precisely control how light behaves at the nanoscale is tricky. Optical Fourier surfaces, which are ...

Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and GlitterinTech, a startup founded by the same research group, have unveiled a fundamentally new type of optical spectrometer that delivers ...
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Robotic arm inspired by octopus uses tactile sensors in suction cups for autonomous underwater grasping

The oceans hide some of the most sophisticated solutions nature has ever developed and are an inexhaustible source of ...
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I had no idea what my phone's hidden sensors could do until this app unlocked them

I cover Android with a focus on productivity, automation, and Google’s ecosystem, including Gemini and everyday apps. With a background in engineering and software development, I tend to go beyond ...
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Artificial eyes could bring human-like sight to self-driving cars and robots

Although self-driving cars and sophisticated robots use advanced cameras, computer algorithms and artificial intelligence to ...

This tiny sensor could help self-driving cars and robots see better in the dark

Penn State researchers have developed a light-adaptive sensor inspired by the human eye that could help self-driving cars and robots maintain visual accuracy in changing lighting conditions.
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Convert old IR remote controls into presentation clickers using an RP2040 USB board and open-source TTVKTR firmware

TTVKTR open-source firmware converts old IR remote controls into presentation clickers through Raspberry Pi RP2040 USB boards ...
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optical media

These days our appetite for more data storage is larger than ever, with video files larger, photo resolutions higher, and project files easily zipping past a few hundred MB. At the same time our ...