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Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change ...

Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, and his team recently developed a new device that can accelerate and dramatically reduce the energy cost of AI computation, ...

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