Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Researchers are exploring how they might create robots endowed with their own sense of morality (Photo: Shutterstock)

Robotics

A group of researchers from Tufts University, Brown University and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are collaborating with the US Navy in a multi-year effort to explore how they might create robots endowed with their own sense of morality.

The graphene coating, seen above as a dark blue patch connected to gold contacts, generated 85 nanowatts of power (Image: Rensselaer/Koratkar)

Electronics

Graphene coating harvests energy from flowing water

Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a nanoengineered graphene coating that can harvest energy from water flowing over it.

Tristan Lawry's ultrasonic system is theoretically able to transmit data and power through submarine hulls (Image: RPI)

Good Thinking

Student-designed system could transmit data and power through submarine hulls

A student-designed ultrasonic system is theoretically able to transmit data and power through submarine hulls.