Tag: Carnegie Mellon
Engineers Use Machine Learning To Help Find Renewable Energy Sources
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are paving the way to total reliance on renewable energy as they study both large- and small-scale ways to...
Electronic Tattoos Add Power to Wearable Computing
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering and the Institute of Systems and Robotics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, have developed a simple, efficient method to make...
Researchers Reinventing the Wheel for Vehicles of the Future
Wheels that transform into tracks on the fly and a digital assistant that helps drivers find the safest, surest route across steep terrain —...
Sound, Vibration Recognition Boost Context-Aware Computing
Smart devices can seem dumb if they don't understand where they are or what people around them are doing. Carnegie Mellon University researchers say...
Bacteria’s Password for Sporulation Hasn’t Changed in 2.7 Billion Years
When it comes to changing their passwords, bacteria are just as bad as you and me — maybe even worse. A Carnegie Mellon University...
Water Matters to Metal Nanoparticles
When engineered nanoparticles in everyday products like paint, sunscreen and makeup hit the environment, they can cause unintended consequences. Greg Lowry, professor of civil and...
Organizing Quantum Dots May Improve Consumer Electronics
Carnegie Mellon University Materials Science and Engineering Professor Michael Bockstaller and his team are working on ways for quantum dots, or nanoparticles created from a specific...
Shen’s Spectacular Supersolder
Carnegie Mellon University's Sheng Shen has created a solder-like material called supersolder, with twice the thermal conductivity of conventional solders and a compliance higher...
Growing Fat Cells on Silk May Help Researchers Better Understand Diseases
Carnegie Mellon University’s Rosalyn Abbott is analyzing fat, or adipose tissue, to learn about the characteristics of disease mechanisms and metabolic behavior. As obesity...
How a Computer Learns To Dribble: Practice, Practice, Practice
Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that's true for computer-animated players as well. By using...
3D Printing the Next Generation of Batteries
Additive manufacturing, otherwise known as 3D printing, can be used to manufacture porous electrodes for lithium-ion batteries—but because of the nature of the manufacturing...
Optimizing Processes with AI
We’re in the age of big data. Data collected through sensors and new technologies at multiple scales can be leveraged to make decisions and...
Smarter Cars = Smarter Cities
Realizing the importance of transportation in the development of smart cities, students and faculty in Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public...
Carnegie Mellon Neuroscientists Map Brain’s Response to Cold Touch
Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have mapped the feeling of cool touch to the brain's insula in a mouse model. The findings, published in the...
Interfacing With the Brain
Chris Bettinger and his group have created a hydrogel material and fabrication process for electrodes that stick to the brain, matching its soft, squishy...
Cheap 3-D Printer Can Produce Self-Folding Materials
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used an inexpensive 3-D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold themselves into predetermined shapes,...
Machine Learning Infers Microbial Relationships
Carnegie Mellon University's Radu Marculescu is using machine learning to understand the microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract. His work could lay the groundwork...
Conductive Paint Transforms Walls Into Sensors, Interactive Surfaces
Walls are what they are — big, dull dividers. With a few applications of conductive paint and some electronics, however, walls can become smart...
Engineers Take Steps To Prevent Falls
One of four elderly persons falls every year in the United States. With more than 37 million hospitalizations annually, roughly one million falls occur...
Shining a Light on Intracranial Pressure
Every year, millions of patients suffer from traumatic brain injuries often caused by car accidents, blows to the head, falls, infections or strokes.
These patients...