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Quantum computing is in the midst of the so-called NISQ era – a time of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices based a variety of qubit modalities, all of which are too error-prone for practical computing. While the qubit zoo keeps growing – superconducting, trapped...

If you have an interest in robot safety of industrial robots, you don’t have to search far to find videos of industrial robots flawlessly stopping upon collision with various obstacles – this could be anything from people to water bottles or balloons. The common...

Inspired by how our body’s motor proteins facilitate tasks like muscle contraction and cellular migration, scientists have been looking for efficient ways to convert chemical energy (the energy stored in substances) into useful mechanical work. By understanding and...

To better predict the specifics of these storms, researchers at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) recently used Expanse at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and Stampede2 supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists recently combined large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with machine learning interatomic potentials derived from first-principles calculations to examine the hydrogen bonding of water confined in carbon...

Researchers at Meta AI and Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) have been working with Boston Dynamics‘ Spot quadruped to push the robot to new heights. Their research resulted in two significant breakthroughs toward creating general-purposed embodied AI agents that are...

Sustainability in high-performance computing (HPC) has been on everyone’s mind lately. In the most recent survey from Hyperion Research, sustainability and energy efficiency rose to the top of priority lists for many HPC datacenter procurement plans, second only to...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a robot that can swim under the sand and dig itself out. The robot has two front limbs that mimic the oversized flippers of turtle hatchlings.  The post This turtle-inspired robot can dig through sand...

Researchers at Leipzig University have developed a highly efficient method to investigate systems with long-range interactions that were previously puzzling to experts. These systems can be gases or even solid materials such as magnets whose atoms interact not only...

Using the full capabilities of the Quantinuum H1-1 quantum computer, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory not only demonstrated best practices for scientific computing on current quantum systems but also produced an intriguing...

A research group at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute has developed a suite of robotic systems and planners that enable robots to explore unknown and treacherous and unknown environments more quickly and create more accurate and detailed maps. The...

For decades, scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of what makes quantum computers more powerful than classical computers. The origins of this quest can be traced all the way to Albert Einstein who famously called quantum mechanical entanglement “spooky...