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Loughborough Academics Develop Robots To Care For Elderly

Robots that look after frail elderly people in their homes are being developed by academics. The I’M-ACTIVE project is being worked on by experts at Loughborough University, in Leicestershire. The work looks at ways to install sensors to monitor vulnerable...

Dead Birds Are Flying Again — This Time, As Drones

On a New Mexico college campus, there’s a large field that many birds fly over. Lately, some of those birds have been dead. Mostafa Hassanalian, an engineering professor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, is using drone technology to lift dead birds...

More Americans Are Snapping Up Used EVs

New electric cars are grabbing all the headlines, but Americans buy far more used cars than new cars. When will sales of used electric vehicles pick up? They already have. A new analysis from Kelley Blue Book parent company Cox Automotive shows that used EV sales grew...

3D-Printed Robot Hand Senses How To Grasp Objects

Scientists have designed a 3D-printed robotic hand that can grasp and hold objects using the correct amount force. It was created by a team at the University of Cambridge who fitted 16 sensors to the device that enabled it to “sense” what it was touching....