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- These hyper-efficient solar panels could actually live on your roof soon Wed, 20 Feb 19, 11:43amThe clean energy boffins in their labs are always upping the theoretical limit on how much power you can get out of sunshine, but us plebes actually installing solar cells are stuck with years-old tech that's not half as...
- Let’s save the bees with machine learning Sat, 2 Feb 19, 5:27amMachine learning and all its related forms of "AI" are being used to work on just about every problem under the sun, but even so, stemming the alarming decline of the bee population still seems out of left field...
- This robotic "eel" hunts down the source of water pollution Thu, 27 Jul 17, 10:46pmLake Geneva's latest resident—all four feet of it—is neither man nor beast. Dubbed the Envirobot, the critter is a biomimetic robot designed by Swiss researchers to pinpoint the source of pollution in tainted waters....
- Innovative new osmosis technology powers up to 50,000 LED lightbulbs Fri, 22 Jul 16, 12:13amAs solar, wind, and hydropower continue to grow, new research into sustainable technology might make these game changers old news. The EPFL’s Laboratory for Nanoscale Biology has found a way to use osmosis, or the naturally...
- Researchers generate energy with nothing but cardboard, tape, and a pencil Fri, 29 Jan 16, 2:44amAn Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) postdoctoral researcher made an interesting discovery recently -- using nothing more than cardboard, Teflon tape, and a pencil, it's possible to make a small, eco-friendly...
- Hovering Rescue Robot Can Crash Into Obstacles and Keep On Flying Tue, 5 Nov 13, 6:30amA new flying robot built to withstand mid-air crashes could play a key role helping disaster victims. The great minds at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne created a flying spheroid robot that can simply bounce off...
- Switzerland to Launch ‘Janitor’ Satellite to Collect 370,000 Pieces of Space Junk From Earth’s Orbit Wed, 25 Sep 13, 1:04amSpace junk is an ongoing problem for the world's space administrations as decades worth of satellite launches and space missions have filled the Earth’s orbit with trash such as fuel tanks, lost tools and parts of derelict...
- Swiss Scientists Create “Cheetah-Cub” Robot that Moves Like a Cat Tue, 18 Jun 13, 4:00amSince the time of the ancient Egyptians all the way up to modern Internet memes, human beings have long been fascinated with cats. Researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switerland have looked...
- Clip-Air: Modular Transportation Capsules Carry Passengers by Land, Sea, or Air Fri, 14 Jun 13, 4:30amThe layout of a train is a lot like an airplane or a bus in terms of packing a lot of people into a tube to move them somewhere else. So why not just load people into a train and then slap some wings on it to get it to its...
- World’s First Bionic Hand With a Sense of Touch is Set to Be Transplanted Tue, 19 Feb 13, 3:06amAn anonymous man in his 20s who lives in Rome will soon receive a new hand, and for the first time in the world his bionic hand will be able to feel the things that it touches...
- Flying Disaster Relief Robots Create Communication Networks Wed, 29 Sep 10, 5:30amWhile they may resemble a fleet of space invaders, these flying robots are actually designed to aid in disaster relief. Developed by the EPFL School of Engineering, the Swarming Micro Air Vehicle Network (SMAVNET) is a group...