In a fully packed St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth, an experimental Lutheran church service took place, almost entirely generated by artificial intelligence. The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by an avatar of a bearded Black man on a huge screen above the altar, asked the believers to rise from the pews and praise
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A team of researchers from POSTECH and Sungkyunkwan University has developed a new technology for high-performance organic polymer semiconductors, which exhibit both stretchability and electrical functionality. To enable semiconductors to be used in diverse flexible devices like flexible displays and skin-attachable medical devices, it is necessary to use stretchable materials instead of rigid ones. However,
Gas-insulated equipment (GIE) is widely used in the power industry and has been using sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) as an insulating gas and arc-quenching medium. However, SF6 is one of the most potent greenhouse gases with a global warming potential of 25200 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3200 years. As a result, seeking eco-friendly insulating gas
A study conducted by Charles Darwin University (CDU) and Torrens University researchers explored the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to combat cybersickness in virtual reality (VR) users. The study used AI techniques and machine learning algorithms to predict when potential users of VR technology with headsets would experience symptoms of cybersickness such as nausea, headaches,
Modular robots are becoming increasingly popular among roboticists as they are composed of different elements or modules that can be reconfigured to carry out specific tasks more effectively. Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper to create 3D decorative shapes, can be an inspiration for the creation of modular robotic structures because it offers predefined
A team of five master sculptors from different countries, including Michelangelo, Rodin, and Takamura, have collaborated with artificial intelligence (AI) to create a sculpture called “The Impossible Statue.” The statue is now on display in a museum in Sweden. Experts from the Swedish machine engineering group Sandvik used three AI software programs to create the
It has been 30 years since the release of Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park,” a film that revolutionized cinema and changed the way audiences perceived special effects. The movie, based on Michael Crichton’s novel of the same name, introduced pioneering computer-generated imagery (CGI) to bring dinosaurs to life on the big screen. “Jurassic Park” quickly became
A team of material scientists and electronic engineers at MIT has developed a magnetic soft robot that can move when subjected to a unidirectional magnetic field. The robots were created by combining fiber-based fabrication systems with mechanical and magnetic programming methods. The team published their findings in the journal Advanced Materials, outlining how they overcame
Researchers at Tokyo Tech have developed a novel full-duplex (FD) communication system that can transmit and receive signals at frequencies over 100 GHz and at a data rate of 112 Gb/s. The proposed architecture is a significant advancement towards meeting the requirements needed for sixth-generation (6G) networks, which are expected to offer data rates of
A new paper published in Nature Communications by the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment, a U.S.-China collaborative research program based at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and collaborators at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China, suggests that offshore wind power may hold the