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Brainlink, a device that enables its users to add additional functionality to robots and other electronic devices, uses infrared signals to communicate with its users.

‘Brainlink’ increases robot functionality

A new device, created by BirdBrain Technologies and researchers in the Robotics Institute, enables its users to add additional functionality to small robots and other electronics.

San Francisco-based artist Philip Ross cultivated fungi to produce fungus-based building materials. Mushrooms sprout out of the building blocks when the cellulose, food for the fungi, is depleted.

Latest Miller Gallery exhibition adds scientific twist to art

Collisions of art and science are displayed at the most recent exhibition at the Miller Gallery, titled “Intimate Science.”

Researchers create more accurate photo-matching method

Researchers in the Robotics Institute have developed a new algorithm for identifying “uniqueness” that has yielded strikingly accurate results.

SciTech Briefs

Separate research groups at Cornell University are making contradictory claims about the greenhouse gas impact of energy from shale-derived natural gas versus coal.

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