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Two-in-one photography: Light as wave and particle! (sous-titres français)
- Published_at:2015-03-02
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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- description: Light is a wave and a particle, but no-one's managed to see both at the same time.... until now! The first ever snapshot of light as both wave and particle is taken by Fabrizio Carbone’s lab at EPFL (LUMES). The work is published in Nature...
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A neural implant stays in the long term on the spinal cord to restore walking
- Published_at:2015-01-08
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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- description: EPFL researcher's neural implant can make paralyzed rats walk again. Soft and stretchable, it is the first of its kind that can be implanted directly on the spinal chord, without damaging it. Described in Science, this new generation device called...
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Neuroscientists awaken ghosts… hidden in our cortex
- Published_at:2014-11-06
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:epflnews
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- description: Ghosts only exist in our minds, and we know precisely where to look for them. Patients suffering from neurological or psychiatric conditions have often reported a strange “feeling of a presence”. EPFL researchers have now succeeded in recreating this...
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Robots transform into furniture at EPFL
- Published_at:2014-05-20
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:epflnews
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- description: EPFL scientists are creating futuristic furniture that can move around and autonomously change its shape. This innovation may prove useful to support disabled individuals.
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Ultra-fast, the robotic arm catches objects on the fly
- Published_at:2014-05-12
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:epflnews
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- description: A robot developed by EPFL researchers is capable of reacting on the spot and grasping objects with complex shapes and trajectories in less than five hundredths of a second.
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An insect-like, crash-happy flying robot
- Published_at:2013-10-30
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:epflnews
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- description: Gimball likes to make contact. In fact, this small ultralight flying spheroid resembles an insect as it goes around bumping into things. The goal of EPFL researchers was to develop a machine that could operate in extremely chaotic environments without...
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A robot that runs like a cat
- Published_at:2013-06-17
- Category:Science & Technology
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- description: Thanks to the design of its legs, which faithfully mimic feline morphology, EPFL's four-legged "cheetah-cub robot" shares the advantages of its biological model: it is small, light and runs very fast. In the long term, this type of machine, which is...
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Software Enables Avatar to Reproduce Our Emotion in Real Time
- Published_at:2012-11-15
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:epflnews
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- description: A virtual character produces the same facial expressions as its user. It makes a video game, chat, or an animated film both fun and fast. Faceshift, an EPFL spin-off, launches its software on the market today.
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