Xin Zhang

A team of scientists at Boston University has developed a metamaterial that can be patterned onto clothing to form a scalable, customisable network, enabling communication between near-field reading devices and battery-free sensing nodes placed within the network.

In a potential game-changer for agriculture, Mississippi State University (MSU) scientists have developed a robot that works with camera-based perception system to identify and pluck one cotton boll at a time.