Robotics News
Quantum Market, Though Small, will Grow 22% and Hit $1.5B in 2026
Few markets as small as the quantum information sciences market generate as much lively discussion. Hyperion Research pegged the worldwide quantum market at $848 million for 2023 and expects it to reach ~$1.5 billion in 2026, according to its annual quantum computing...
Qubit Roundup – Quantum Zoo Grows, Rigetti’s QPU Play, Google’s New Algorithm, QuEra’s EC Advance, and More
While the IBM Quantum Summit and the QC Ware’s Q2B Silicon Valley conference dominated last week’s news flow, there was no shortage of other quantum news emerging. Here’s a brief recap of highlights. Let’s start with work published in Science last Thursday in which...
Women in High Performance Computing Launches ‘Move the Needle’ Project for 2024
Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC), in collaboration with Alces Flight, is proud to unveil the ‘Move the Needle’ project, a initiative aimed at fostering workplace inclusivity in the High Performance Computing industry. The ‘Move the Needle‘ project, a...
MassRobotics launches equity-free robotics accelerator
MassRobotics, the world’s leading global independent robotics innovation hub, launch its inaugural MassRobotics Accelerator. Powered by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech), this program is built to support and advance robotics entrepreneurs by...
NCSA Advocates for Women in Computing, Takes Lessons from Grace Hopper Event
NCSA has long supported women in High-Performance Computing (HPC). To that end, the Center served as an academic sponsor of the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) in Orlando and sent team members from several areas to this year’s conference....
Gordon Bell Prize Finalists at Argonne Use Supercomputers to Study Nuclear Reactor Design, Climate Modeling
Nov. 8, 2023 — Two teams that include scientists from U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have been named finalists for the Association for Computing Machinery 2023 Gordon Bell Prize. This image shows the individual pins in a full-core...
Optimization-as-a-Service from Realtime Robotics offers to reduce manufacturing cycle times
Realtime Robotics offers software and services to optimize robot motion. Source: Realtime Robotics Realtime Robotics, which provides motion planning software for industrial robots, today launched its new Optimization-as-a-Service offering. The company said it combines...
Tangram Vision packs AI skills onto HiFi 3D sensor
If you’ve ever talked to the folks at Tangram Vision, chances are you came away more knowledgeable about the state of perception for robotics. The team at the Boulder, Colo.-based startup has 60-plus years of combined experience with perception and sensors. Founded in...
Supercomputing 2023: Odds and Ends from the Show
This year’s fantastic Supercomputing 2023 was back in full form. Attendees seemed to be glad that the show was back in Denver, which was a preferred destination over last year’s show in Dallas. The post Supercomputing 2023: Odds and Ends from the Show appeared first...
Princeton University Announces First-of-its-Kind Quantum Science and Engineering Doctoral Program
Nov. 16, 2023 — Princeton University has launched a new Ph.D. program in Quantum Science and Engineering, providing graduate training in an emerging discipline at the intersection of quantum physics and information theory. Credit: Princeton University This new field...
Brown researchers simplify human-to-robot communication with large language models
The Brown research team tested its Lang2LTL software on a Spot robot from Boston Dynamics on campus. | Source: Juan Siliezar, Brown University Researchers at Brown University said they have developed software that can translate plainly worded instructions into...
Scientists in Austria Unravel the Potential of Fermions in Quantum Simulations
Fermionic atoms are atoms that obey the Pauli exclusion principle, which means that no two of them can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously. This makes them ideal for simulating systems where fermionic statistics play a crucial role, such as molecules,...