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Physicists Work To Shrink Microchips with First One-Dimensional Helium Model System
Microchips are everywhere, running computers and cars, and even helping people find lost pets. As microchips grow smaller, faster and capable of doing more things, the wires that conduct electricity to them must follow suit. But there’s a physical limit to how small...
Syslogic releases AI Rugged Computer for agricultural applications
Syslogic’s new AI Rugged Computer RPC RSL A3 E2 is designed to be suitable for implementing innovative agricultural applications. The device is based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial and is specifically designed for computer vision applications in...
Festo introduces pneumatic cobot arm
The cobot uses six pneumatic direct drives, instead of the typical electric motors and mechanical transmission, to move. Each of the six drives consists of a circular chamber with a moveable partition. Differences in air pressure on either side of the partition wall...
Using Supercomputers to Solve High Energy Physics Mysteries
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, the University of Connecticut, University of Edinburgh, Regensburg University, and the University of Southampton are seeking answers to physics mysteries at the highest energies and shortest distances....
NSF: ‘Navigating the Seismic Shift of Post-Moore Computer Systems Design’
While the HPC community is certainly aware of the shifting HPC technology landscape, it is worthwhile to occasionally take stock of how the overall changes are driving future architecture. Towards the end of last year, the National Science Foundation authored a paper...
Harvard and QuEra Collaborators Observe Quantum Speed-Up in Optimization Problems
A collaboration between Harvard University with scientists at QuEra Computing, MIT, University of Innsbruck and other institutions has demonstrated a breakthrough application of neutral-atom quantum processors to solve problems of practical use. The work led by...
ABB robot 3D prints houseware in London storefront
As you browse the dozens of window displays on London’s Oxford Street, you’ll notice something unique in the window at Selfridges: an ABB robot 3D printing designer furniture, houseware and other objects. The post ABB robot 3D prints houseware in London storefront...
Hubble Telescope, Supercomputing Enable Exoplanet Observations
The first exoplanet detection happened only 30 years ago—but now, thanks to rapid advances in observation and data processing technologies, astronomers are working to not only detect exoplanets, but also to characterize them. This work—enabled by a supercomputer at...
Plastic-Eating Enzyme Breakthrough Enabled by Supercomputing
More than 90 percent of plastic remains unrecycled, and as a result, billions of tons of plastic reside in landfills (or worse, in natural environments) around the world. This snowballing environmental disaster has caught the attention of researchers from a wide range...
Clearbot Neo autonomously clears plastic from harbors
Open Ocean Engineering’s Clearbot Neo is a robotic boat that autonomously navigates harbors, canals and rivers to collect trash that would otherwise wash into the ocean. The post Clearbot Neo autonomously clears plastic from harbors appeared first on The Robot...
Five Supercomputers Help Model Crucial Elements of HIV-1
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief how small elements of a virus can play a crucial role in combating it with therapeutic drugs and vaccines. In Covid’s case, this research has included highly detailed simulations of viral features like the spike...
Princeton Researchers Achieve Over 99 Percent Quantum Fidelity Using Silicon
Research conducted by Princeton University physicists is paving the way for the use of silicon-based technologies in quantum computing, especially as quantum bits—the basic units of quantum computers. This research promises to accelerate the use of silicon technology...