Electronics

Humans, robots work better together following cross-training

By By Helen Knight, MIT News correspondent | 12 Feb 2013

Spending a day in someone else’s shoes can help us to learn what makes them tick. Now the same approach is being used to develop a better understanding between humans and robots, to enable them to work together as a team

Instrument handle with integrated electronics facilitates surgical procedures

09 Feb 2013

Bionic man on display at London's Science Museum

07 Feb 2013

The human-like machine, called Rex, incorporates a host of latest advances in bionic limbs, as well as artificial pancreas, kidney, spleen and trachea

The armchair as a fitness trainer

04 Feb 2013

Tiny lights could spark communications revolution

01 Feb 2013

Minute LED lights could deliver Wi-Fi-like internet communications, while displaying information and illuminating homes

Researchers create fine patterns that combine single-atom-thick graphene, boron nitride

28 Jan 2013

Researchers demonstrate record-setting p-type transistor

By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 04 Jan 2013

The new transistor also features what’s called a trigate design, which could solve some of the problems that plague computer circuits at extremely small sizes

Engineers develop new energy-efficient computer memory using magnetic materials

By By Matthew Chin | 17 Dec 2012

Copper, gold and tin for efficient chips

08 Dec 2012

Squirrels and birds inspire researchers to create deceptive robots

05 Dec 2012

Stanford builds underwater robots to explore treacherous deep-ocean terrain

By By Melissa Pandika | 04 Dec 2012

Engineers at Stanford's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have developed autonomous underwater vehicles that can photograph regions of the ocean floor that were once too risky for these robotic explorers

Good connections to molecular electronics: how molecular wires can be optimised

29 Nov 2012

Researchers use synthetic magnetism to control light

By By Andrew Myers | 06 Nov 2012

Power in the palm of your hands

15 Oct 2012

‘Invisibility’ could be a key to better electronics

By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 12 Oct 2012

Biocompatible electronics for health monitoring vanish when no longer needed

06 Oct 2012

Biocompatible electronics for health monitoring vanish when no longer needed

06 Oct 2012

Australia launches world’s fastest telescope to probe outer space

05 Oct 2012

Magic carpet’ could help prevent falls

07 Sep 2012

A ‘magic carpet’ which can immediately detect when someone has fallen and can help to predict mobility problems has been demonstrated by University of Manchester scientists

One-molecule-thick material has big advantages

24 Aug 2012

Utah physicists invent ‘spintronic’ LED that could lead to brighter TV and computer displays

26 Jul 2012

Single-photon transmitter could enable new quantum devices

26 Jul 2012

Long-sought goal for quantum devices — the ability to transmit single photons while blocking multiple photons — has finally been achieved, writes David L. Chandler from MIT News Office