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Scientists Turn Single Molecule Clockwise or Counterclockwise on Demand
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory report they can precisely rotate a single molecule that small on demand. The key ingredient is a single atom of europium, a rare earth element. It rests at the center of a complex of...
6 keys to selecting a contract manufacturer
Your manufacturer should feel like an extension of your business. Manufacturing relationships are just that – relationships. Since your contract manufacturer (CM) will be working alongside you, actively learning about your robotic system and the requirements specific...
Researchers Find Ways to Improve Storage Time of Quantum Information in a Spin Rich Material
An international team of scientists have demonstrated a leap in preserving the quantum coherence of quantum dot spin qubits as part of the global push for practical quantum networks and quantum computers. These technologies will be transformative to a broad range of...
How fish sensory organs could improve underwater robots’ navigation skills
A research team led by the University of Bristol is studying fish sensory organs to better understand the cues they give to determine collective behavior. These researchers think these same cues could be used in swarms of underwater robots. The post How fish sensory...
Why roboticists should prioritize human factors
Human systems engineering aims to combine engineering and psychology to create systems that are designed to work with humans’ capabilities and limitations. Interest in the subject has grown among government agencies, like the FDA, the FAA and NASA, as well as in...
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Enables Transparent Medicare Outcome AI
The root of the team’s approach is multilevel modeling (MLM, not to be confused with multilevel marketing). Through MLM, groups of similar cases are bundled and differential equations are used to identify a limited set of controlling factors for each case, allowing...
Tiny Ion Is Crucial for HIV Replication: Supercomputer Simulation Explains How Viruses Form Capsids
A study by chemists at the University of Chicago has uncovered a new key step in the process that HIV uses to replicate itself. The post Tiny Ion Is Crucial for HIV Replication: Supercomputer Simulation Explains How Viruses Form Capsids appeared first on HPCwire.
Soft robotic wearable restores arm function for people with ALS
A team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has developed a soft robotic wearable capable of significantly assisting upper arm and shoulder movement in people with...
ABB uses robots to automate COVID antibody testing
ABB Robotics and the University of Texas Medical Branch’s (UTMB) Life Sciences and Healthcare Lab have developed an automated neutralizing antibody testing system. The robotic system can determine an individual’s immunity to various strains of COVID, and perform other...
Deep Learning for Quantum Sensing: AI Assists Quantum Metrology for Greater Efficiency with Model-free Learning Algorithm
Quantum sensing represents one of the most promising applications of quantum technologies, with the aim of using quantum resources to improve measurement sensitivity. In particular, sensing of optical phases is one of the most investigated problems, considered key to...
Microscopy Images Could Lead to New Ways to Control Excitons for Quantum Computing
Excitons are drawing attention as possible quantum bits (qubits) in tomorrow’s quantum computers and are central to optoelectronics and energy-harvesting processes. However, these charge-neutral quasiparticles, which exist in semiconductors and other materials, are...
Supercomputing’s Critical Role in the Fusion Ignition Breakthrough
On December 5th, the research team at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) achieved a historic win in energy science: for the first time ever, more energy was produced by an artificial fusion reaction than was consumed...