Engineers at MIT have developed a new heating and cooling reactor train that produces clean hydrogen by harnessing 40% of the solar heat it is exposed to. The technology can be scaled up to by adding more reactors to the train.
Biotech firm Klick Labs developed a 10-second smartphone voice test that uses AI to detect type 2 diabetes, with an accuracy of 89% for women and 86% for men.
Engineers at MIT and in China have developed a passive water desalination solution using solar power that produces 4 to 6 litres of filtered water per hour, without salt clogging up the system using currents that mimic ocean currents.
University of Limerick graduate Joël Olympio was named the national winner of the James Dyson Award in Ireland for his Oasis visor, which is designed to reduce visual distractions for ADHD sufferers using a film that dims the wearer's mid-to-far peripheral vision
The Toyota Research Institute released details of their work towards developing a Large Behaviour Model (LBM) for robotics. The AI model learned 60 dexterous behaviours autonomously following a manual demonstration of each behaviour using physical simulation.
Researchers from the University of Washington developed a swarm of audio robots that autonomously position themselves around a noisy environment to create different audio zones, which can be isolated from each other. The robot smart speakers can be used to isolate and record or block out separate conversations, as the sound sources move around the environment.
Researchers from MIT and MGH have developed a non-contact based ultrasound device that uses skin-safe lasers to induce ultrasound waves, mounter on a robot arm.