PORTLAND, Ore. — Bubble memory technology is back—this time in a microfluidic version for logic applications rather than the magnetic approach taken by Texas Instruments in the 1970s. Invented by ...

Advanced Materials Journal – Strain-Gated Piezotronic Logic Nanodevices We present the first piezoelectric triggered mechanical-electronic logic operation using the piezotronic effect, through which ...

The Octobot is the first entirely soft, autonomous robot demonstrated by a team of Harvard University researchers. It is made by a combination of embedded 3d printing, molding, and soft lithography.

Microfludic devices were a subject of extreme hype back in the 80s and 90s. Although devices with a single purpose have been commercialized, the promised general analytical "lab-on-a-chip" never ...

Researchers have reverse-engineered a cellular signal processing system and used it like a logic gate -- a simple computer -- to better understand what causes specific cells to migrate. Cancer cells ...

Perhaps our future overlords won’t be made up of electrical circuits after all but will instead be soft-bodied like ourselves. However, their design will have its origins in electrical analogues, as ...

A novel chip automates the reaction cascades occurring between molecules inside DNA to carry out complex mathematical calculations. The field of DNA computing has evolved by leaps and bounds since it ...

We’ve always been interested in fluidic logic and, based on [soiboi’s] videos, he is too. His latest shows how to use silicone and a vacuum to build a multiplexed dot matrix display.

Cancer cells migrate through the body for multiple reasons; some are simply following the flow of a fluid, while others are actively following specific chemical trails. So how do you determine which ...