Archive for September 2020

By Reuters Staff (Reuters) – If humans sound like Minnie Mouse after inhaling helium, would an alligator squeak on the gas used to float balloons? This profound puzzle challenged a global research team to record an alligator bellowing with normal air, and then breathing heliox, a helium-oxygen mixture. The breakthrough garnered an Ig Nobel Prize for…

By ‘hearing’, robots gain a new sense of their surroundingsby Elle Hardy September 2, 2020 in Robotics Researchers have found that sounds can help robots differentiate between objects and improve perception.In the rapidly developing field of robotics, machines have generally relied on sight, and increasingly touch, for their sensory perception. But groundbreaking research by a…