The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an operating system that can convincingly mimic falling in love. The story ...
Animals like bats, whales and insects have long used acoustic signals for communication and navigation. Now, an international team of scientists has taken a page from nature's playbook to model ...
When Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Professor Nitin Sanket watches birds weave through forests or bats fly effortlessly in the dark, he sees more than nature’s marvels—he sees the future of ...
It’s not completely unusual to see animated contenders in the Academy Awards sound race — Guillermo del Toro’s 2022 retelling of “Pinocchio” was the last to make the short list, and Pixar’s 2020 film ...
Sound can propel a microscopic robot shaped like a piece of pasta through artificial blood vessels, which could eventually lead to a new way of delivering drugs inside the human body. You can feel the ...
Re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor Leff Lefferts tells IndieWire about how Roz (Lupita Nyong'o) needed to sound and feel. What is Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) made of? The plot of “The Wild Robot ...
A new study led by Penn State researchers shows for the first time how sound waves could function as a means of controlling micro-sized robots. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Animals like bats, whales and ...