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Powering robots: biomorphic batteries could provide 72 times more energy than stand-alone cells
  1. Powering robots: biomorphic batteries could provide 72 times more energy than stand-alone cells

    The researchers compare them to fat deposits in living creatures.

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  2. Wireless sensors for N95 masks could enable easier, more accurate decontamination

    “The technology can give users the confidence they deserve when reusing respirators or other PPE.”

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  3. Turning faces into thermostats

    An autonomous HVAC system could provide more comfort with less energy.

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  4. A 3D camera for safer autonomy and advanced biomedical imaging

    Researchers demonstrated the use of stacked, transparent graphene photodetectors combined with image processing algorithms to produce 3D images and range detection.

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  5. A laser pointer could hack your voice-controlled virtual assistant

    Researchers identified a vulnerability that allows a microphone to ‘unwittingly listen to light as if it were sound’

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  6. First programmable memristor computer aims to bring AI processing down from the cloud

    Circuit elements that store information in their electrical resistances enable a brain-like form of computing, storing and processing information in the same place.

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  7. Biopsy alternative: “Wearable” device captures cancer cells from blood

    New device caught more than three times as many cancer cells as conventional blood draw samples.

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  8. Running an LED in reverse could cool future computers

    Harnessing heat flow at the nanoscale while suppressing thermal radiation from the LED enables a new approach to light-based cooling.

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  9. Beyond Moore’s law: $16.7M for advanced computing projects

    DARPA’s initiative to reinvigorate the microelectronics industry draws deeply on Michigan Engineering expertise.

  10. An even smaller world’s smallest ‘computer’

    The latest from IBM and now the University of Michigan is redefining what counts as a computer at the microscale.