Credit: Markus Winkler from Pexels Google has announced it will roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to children under the age of 13. While the launch starts within…
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How water vapor is powering the next generation of soft robots
An untethered soft robot crawls along a tree trunk in an unstructured environment. It is powered by four liquid-gas phase transition electric soft actuators that use water as the working…
Improving the performance of Cu₂SrSnS₄ solar cells with inorganic hole transport layers
Schematic representation of Cu₂SrSnS₄ solar cell with diverse inorganic HTLs Credit: Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (2025); DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2025.112732 Thin film solar cells such as CdTe and CIGSe…
AI-powered headphones offer group translation with voice cloning and 3D spatial audio
Credit: University of Washington Tuochao Chen, a University of Washington doctoral student, recently toured a museum in Mexico. Chen doesn’t speak Spanish, so he ran a translation app on his…
Google will pay Texas $1.4B to settle claims the company collected users’ data without permission
A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File Google will pay $1.4 billion to…
Warm metalworking turns brittle semiconductors into flexible, high-performance electronic films
Left: Illustration and photos of warm metalworking techniques; Right-top: Experimental vs. predicted brittle-to-ductile transition temperatures; Right-bottom: Normalized power density of thermoelectric devices based on warm-metalworked films. Credit: Shi Xun Inorganic…
Researchers build next-gen swarm robots using simple linked particles
A V-shaped link-bot composed of self-propelled particles connected through chain-like links. Credit: Seoul National University College of Engineering A joint research team from Seoul National University and Harvard University has…
Seeing Is Believing: How We Judge AI as Creative or Not
Summary: New research shows that people perceive AI systems as more creative when they observe not just the final product, but also the creative process and the robot in action.…
