Archive: 2020

Empa researchers in Switzerland have developed a material that works like a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) and can be applied to textile fibres, opening up the possibility...

Sensors have been printed directly onto human skin without the use of heat in an international project led by Huanyu Cheng, at the Pennsylvania State University Department...

Electronic artificial skin that reacts to pain just like real skin will open the way to better prosthetics, smarter robotics and non-invasive alternatives to skin grafts....

A team led by Professor Sungho Jo from the School of Computing at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) collaborated with Professor Seunghwan Ko from...

While the concept of controlling a game using the hands via gloves is not new, the main problems have always been weight and flexibility.

Amazon’s new Halo Band builds on older fitness-tracking devices with features that have never been seen before in a mainstream wearable device.

Among recent developments to come out of the Purdue Research Foundation’s Office of Technology Commercialization is a wearable solution allowing patients to receive treatment for chronic wounds without...

A human limb is a carefully layered structure, with stiff bone wrapped in layers of different soft tissue, such as muscle and skin, all perfectly bound together....

The nimble shape-shifting of the octopus – and its ability to squeeze through tight spaces with the quick contraction of a muscle – has inspired the development at...

By adapting concepts from reflectometry, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have created soft fibre-shaped sensors that open up many new possibilities for smart textiles....