Toward tactile and proximity sensing in large soft robots
TacNet concept and architecture. It maps a pair of virtual tactile images I sim to the displacements of free nodes D…
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iPhone 15’s Dynamic Island may integrate a new proximity sensor
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has offered new insight into the iPhone 15 series. According to him, Dynamic Island will house a new proximity sensor, which is currently under the iPhone 14 Pro…
Install a self-learning thermostat
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Now even your home thermostat can learn how much heat and cooling conditions family members prefer and…
Assuming Innovation Requires In-Office Proximity Is Wrong. Here’s Why.
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Apple, Google, and other companies mandating that employees work in the office for most or all of their time…
Proximity bias is real. Here are 3 strategies to avoid it.
Are workers positively or negatively impacted in their career advancement and prospects by physical proximity to bosses? And what bearing does this have on remote work? Here’s what…
Kathleen Robertson says ‘Swimming with Sharks’ has plenty of precedent
BRUCE R. MILLER
The toxic behavior that’s chronicled in “Swimming with Sharks,” a new Roku series, isn’t as far-fetched as viewers might think.In the…
Visual facilitation around hands: Hand proximity attention and handedness
Visual processing is facilitated by spaces near the hand, which is referred to as hand proximity attention. A team at Tohoku University has been studying this mechanism to isolate…
Researchers find newer variants of SARS-CoV-2 can infect mice, unlike the original…
A team of biology researchers at Georgia State University has found that some of the newer variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 can infect the respiratory tract of wild mice, unlike…
Genetic regulation of blood cells: Proximity of a gene to a genetic change plays an…
Genetic causes of traits and diseases are being intensively researched today. And more than 250,000 such connections are now known. In many of these cases, however, it is unclear how the…
Assigned classroom seats can promote friendships between dissimilar students, study…
A study conducted in Hungarian schools showed that seating students next to each other boosted their tendency to become friends -- both for pairs of similar students and pairs of students…