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Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the most common causes of vision loss in children, and to address the concern, engineers from Duke University have developed a handheld device to help improve ROP diagnosis and treatment, which causes...

Right after the surgical robots and bomb sniffing ferret, here’s a Duke University-developed robot that combines the facets of both to a degree of sorts. The laboratory robot is specially designed to sniff out pieces of metal within the human flesh...

Interpreting expressions is a tough challenge even for a mentally potent human so imagine how good the algorithms that comprehend hand gestures and convert them to text language would be! These algorithms are brought into use through the...

Idoya is a normal ape. However, a rigorous training schedule means that she can now walk on a treadmill and that too at varying speeds. On Thursday, this ability of the 12-pond, 21-inch monkey was on display. She sent her brain waves and made a...

Sending data over a great distance is not a problem, which the present optical networks like the Internet, are doing so successfully. However, it is time to consider some faults in this method - like generation of heat and a low rate of only 10...

Students at the Duke University have created a prototype Wisdom Door that uses biometric information to decide who enters. The door does not make you to stop and identify yourself, but it has nine different sensors that gather enough information.