Nearly eight years ago, Harvard University researchers unveiled RoboBee, a small, hybrid robot that could fly, dive, and swim. Now, engineers at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory have outfitted RoboBee with its most reliable landing gear to date, inspired by the crane fly. The post Harvard equips its RoboBee with crane fly-inspired landing gear appeared first […]
Using accelerators in HPC has pushed performance to new levels. Starting with early GPUs, the ability to take advantage of the parallel processing hardware (in the form of SIMD processing) has been a huge boon for HPC performance. As a result, the HPC market has been a big driver for GPU designs, including features like […]
A recent collaboration involving Merck, Amgen, Deloitte, and QuEra Computing has explored a novel approach—quantum reservoir computing (QRC)—to better handle these small-data scenarios for molecular property prediction. The success of this project not only illuminates the potential of QRC in drug discovery but also suggests broader applications in time-series analysis, missing-data imputation, and biomarker detection. […]
There’s a race around the world to build the next Silicon Valley, but for quantum computing. Quantum advocates see riches, influence, and maybe redemption for sites like south Chicago. The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park is being built on the site of US Steel’s South Works, which closed in 1992. The post Chicago’s Bet on […]
Researchers from China have reported using a quantum computer to fine-tune a 1 billion parameter AI model according to an article today in the state-run Global Times. This would be a first for a project of that scale. Using quantum computers to generate high quality data for training and for fine-tuning AI models is thought […]
Aurora Innovation Inc. launched a commercial self-driving trucking service in Texas. The deployment will provide autonomous freight transportation between Dallas and Houston. The post Aurora begins driverless commercial trucking in Texas appeared first on The Robot Report.
Researchers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame, have created a vine-like robot that can squeeze between rubble. The robot could ease emergency responders’ burden following disastrous structural collapses. The post Vine robot from MIT can squeeze through rubble to help emergency responders appeared first on The Robot Report.
The race to build ever-larger language models is being driven by the assumption that more pre-training data equals better performance. It’s no surprise that AI companies have been scrambling to find enough quality data to train their AI models, often resorting to creating synthetic data to build and fine-tune the AI models. But what if […]
Imagine you’re tasked with building a robot—an autonomous system designed for industrial precision. You’ve spent months just trying to find the requisite talent. Your mechanical engineering team was relatively easy to assemble, but when it comes to the specialized skill sets needed — reinforcement learning (RL), artificial intelligence integration, and advanced robotic perception — you’re […]
Your data is yours, right? It seems like a simple question, but thanks to a little-known loophole in federal law, US regulators are can access your private data without a warrant as long as it’s being stored by a third party. The so-called “third-party doctrine” could be reconsidered in a case currently before the Supreme […]
