“HPC Matters!” was the big, bold title of a talk by Piyush Mehrotra, division chief of NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at its Ames Research Center, during the meeting of the HPC Advisory Council at Stanford last week. At the meeting, Mehrotra offered a glimpse into the state of supercomputing at NASA—and how its systems […]
ABB Robotics has launched its High Speed Alignment software that enables users to increase the speed of 6-axis robots by 70% and accuracy by 50%, reducing time-to-market while increasing accuracy levels. The software is compatible with ABB’s IRB 1100 and IRB 120 industrial robots. The post ABB software increases industrial robot speed 70% appeared first […]
A new Hyperion Research opinion paper, sponsored by Dell Technologies and AMD, recommends that the US government increase its investment in high-performance computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing. The paper, titled “To Out-compute is to Out-compete: Competitive Threats and Opportunities Relative to US Government HPC Leadership,” outlines the benefits of HPC, examines recent trends, and […]
Roboticists usually teach robots new tasks by remotely operating them through performing a task. The robot then imitates the demonstration until it can perform the task on its own. The post Google researchers teach robots to learn by watching appeared first on The Robot Report.
ColdQuanta, Riverlane and the University of Wisconsin–Madison announced they have successfully run a quantum algorithm on a cold atom qubit array system, codenamed “AQuA,” an industry first that brings quantum computing one step closer to real world applications. The milestone was conducted at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the research group led by Prof. Mark […]
A research team at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in Korea created a method to allow artificial intelligence (AI) vision systems to better identify objects that are cluttered together and may not be entirely visible. The post GIST researchers teach robots to identify partially hidden objects appeared first on The Robot Report.
A University of Melbourne-led team has perfected a technique for embedding single atoms in a silicon wafer one-by-one. Their technology offers the potential to make quantum computers using the same methods that have given us cheap and reliable conventional devices containing billions of transistors. The post Building a Silicon Quantum Computer Chip Atom by Atom […]
In 1997, ASCI Red appeared on the Top500 as the first teraflops machine in history. It held that spot for seven lists, a record that remains unbroken decades later. Using thousands of Intel microprocessors, it offered additional evidence that massively parallel machines based on “off the shelf” technology would dominate supercomputing of the future – […]
In recent years, artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous, with applications such as speech interpretation, image recognition, medical diagnosis, and many more. At the same time, quantum technology has been proven capable of computational power well beyond the reach of even the world’s largest supercomputer. Physicists at the University of Vienna have now demonstrated a new […]
Standard image sensors, like the billion or so already installed in practically every smartphone in use today, capture light intensity and color. Relying on common, off-the-shelf sensor technology – known as CMOS – these cameras have grown smaller and more powerful by the year and now offer tens-of-megapixels resolution. But they’ve still seen in only […]
