Engineering articles from across Nature Portfolio

A combination of artificial intelligence and noise-cancelling technology can be used to create headsets with customizable auditory zones — or sound bubbles — that allow users to focus on sounds within a designated area while suppressing sounds outside of it.

Phone users around the world are enabling the creation of a space-weather monitor that will deepen our understanding of the physics governing Earth’s ionized upper atmosphere and improve the accuracy of satellite positioning.

Wearable robots that assist leg movements could transform the lives of people with reduced mobility — but only if the devices can adapt in real time to support a vast range of human activities. Machine learning provides a way forward.

The authors propose an expected-actual perception-action loop in soft robots to rapidly and robustly detect contact and distinguish deformation sources. Soft robots enable intelligence to explore and learn through interacting with their surroundings.

A combination of artificial intelligence and noise-cancelling technology can be used to create headsets with customizable auditory zones — or sound bubbles — that allow users to focus on sounds within a designated area while suppressing sounds outside of it.

Phone users around the world are enabling the creation of a space-weather monitor that will deepen our understanding of the physics governing Earth’s ionized upper atmosphere and improve the accuracy of satellite positioning.