AI - Artificial intelligence
How Do Dexterous Robot Hands Work?
Dexterous robot hands use multiple articulated fingers, carefully designed actuation, sensing and coordinated control to grasp and manipulate objects with more flexibili…
Work
Browse ScienceInfo articles and explainers related to Work.
Topic archive
Articles about Work
3,227 published items.
AI - Artificial intelligence
What Is a Robot Foundation Model? How General Robot Models Work
A robot foundation model is broadly pretrained on robot, visual, language or action data so it can be adapted across many tasks instead of being built for one fixed beha…
AI - Artificial intelligence
What Is a Multi-Agent System? How Multiple AI Agents Work Together
A multi-agent system coordinates multiple autonomous agents that communicate or share work toward individual or collective goals. Modern AI systems use this pattern to s…
AI - Artificial intelligence
AI Agent Examples: Real-World Uses and How They Work
AI agent examples range from research and coding assistants to workflow, customer-service and operations agents. The key is not the industry label but whether the system…
New technology
What Are General-Purpose Robots? How Flexible Robots Work
General-purpose robots are designed to perform many different tasks instead of one fixed job. They combine adaptable hardware, perception, control and AI so the same pla…
AI - Artificial intelligence
What Is an AI Scientist? How Autonomous AI Research Systems Work
An AI scientist is an AI-driven research system that can help search literature, form hypotheses, plan analyses or experiments, use scientific tools and evaluate results…
Biology
What Is Gene Therapy and How Does It Work?
Gene therapy changes genetic material or gene expression in a patient's cells to treat disease. The term covers several strategies, including adding a functional gene, s…
Discover science
How Does a Nuclear Reactor Work?
A nuclear reactor controls a self-sustaining fission chain reaction so that heat can be removed safely and used for a practical purpose such as generating electricity, p…
Discover science
What Is Nuclear Energy and How Does Nuclear Power Work?
Nuclear power generates heat from fission, the splitting of heavy atomic nuclei such as uranium. A power plant uses that heat to make steam and drive a turbine-generator…
Oceanography
How Does a Coral Reef Ecosystem Work?
A coral reef ecosystem is a network of corals, algae, fishes, invertebrates, microbes and physical processes that recycle energy and nutrients in nutrient-poor tropical…
Environment
How Do Climate Models Work?
Climate models are mathematical representations of the atmosphere, ocean, land, ice and the exchanges of energy and matter among them. They are built from physical laws…
Environment
How Do Weather Forecasting Models Work?
Weather forecasting models are computer simulations that estimate how the atmosphere will evolve from an analyzed starting state. They translate physical laws into numer…
Health
How Do Clinical Trials Work?
Clinical trials are prospective studies in which people take part so researchers can evaluate interventions, prevention strategies, diagnostics or other health-related a…
Biology
What Is Neuroscience and How Does the Brain Work?
Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system—from molecules and individual neurons to circuits, behavior and cognition—and the brain works by coordinating electrical…
Discover science
How Does a Fusion Reactor Work?
A fusion reactor aims to create a hot plasma in which light nuclei fuse, confine or compress that plasma long enough to release useful energy, then capture the energy in…