At DARPA’s recent Electronics Resurgence Imitative (ERI) Summit in San Francisco July 23-25th, research teams from academia and industry were announced to lead the 6 initial programs.
By drawing in a bit of sweat, a patch developed in the lab of Alberto Salleo can reveal how much cortisol a person is producing. Cortisol is known as the stress hormone but is involved in many important physiological functions.
Computer scientists must identify sources of bias, de-bias training data and develop artificial-intelligence algorithms that are robust to skews in the data, argue James Zou and Londa Schiebinger.
Scientists at Stanford used the wire to capture free-floating tumor cells in the blood, a technique that soon could be used in humans to yield an earlier cancer diagnosis.
Working with a team of electrical engineering students, Shanhui Fan is tackling the problem of how to charge a moving vehicle. So far, they've sent consistent power to a lightbulb on the go.
Stanford and Seoul National University researchers have developed an artificial nervous system that could give prosthetic limbs or robots reflexes and the ability to sense touch.