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Solving AI Cluster Design Challenges with a Building Block Approach
When considering a large complex system, such as an AI cluster, supercomputer, or compute cluster, you may think you only have two options—build from scratch from the ground up, or buy a pre-configured, supercomputer-in-a-box from a major technology vendor that...
Team PoliMOVE sets a new ground speed record for autonomous vehicles of 192.2 mph
The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) racecar, a Dallara AV-21 programmed by team PoliMOVE from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and the University of Alabama (USA), set a new land speed world record of 192.2 MPH / 309.3 KPH at the historic Kennedy Space Center this week....
What’s New in HPC Research: BaGuaLu, PolyCoder, Turbulent Flows & More
In this regular feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programming to exascale to quantum computing, the details are here. The post What’s New in HPC Research: BaGuaLu,...
FAA begins testing drone traffic management capabilities
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will start field testing its drone-traffic-management capabilities in the spring of 2022. Its end goal is to eventually integrate drones into the National Airspace System. The post FAA begins testing drone traffic management...
Voyager AI Supercomputer Gives Investigators New Deep Learning Experimental Platform
As human-caused climate change warms the planet, creating drier conditions across the Western U.S., wildfire intensity has grown. California’s wildfires over the last few years have devastated land, families, and communities. Rising tree and undergrowth density over...
White Castle installing Flippy 2 frying robots at 100 locations
White Castle is installing Miso Robotics‘ Flippy 2 frying robot at an 100 fast food locations. Rollouts of Flippy 2 are being phased by region and will be planned out and scheduled in the months and years ahead. The post White Castle installing Flippy 2 frying robots...
Outrider now autonomously backs up trailers in distribution yards
Outrider, a developer of autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, released fully autonomous trailer backing capabilities to its fleet. The technology enables autonomous yard trucks to back trailers into tight spaces without modifications to trailers. The post...
Does Recent Spate of Large Investments Portend a Banner Year for Robotics?
Recent series large investments into robotics companies, totaling nearly US $1B, could be an early indicator that 2022 will be a banner year for robotics investments. Apex.AI's Jan Becker and Joe Speed are also interviewed. The post Does Recent Spate of Large...
BVLOS recommendations could clear path for autonomous drones
Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) regulations would govern the usage of drones, piloted and autonomous, that fly far beyond their operators’ location. While drone companies and operators have to date been able to apply for special permissions for BVLOS flights,...
Researchers Set Record by Preserving Quantum States for More Than 5 Seconds
Quantum science holds promise for many technological applications, such as building hackerproof communication networks or quantum computers that could accelerate new drug discovery. These applications require a quantum version of a computer bit, known as a qubit, that...
Microsoft Rolls Out Ampere Altra Arm CPUs in Azure
There was a time when “the cloud” ran on pretty vanilla x86 architecture, save for boutique firms like Nimbix (acquired by Atos last year) that pioneered the use of then-exotic hardware like GPUs and FPGAs and other Intel alternatives. If further evidence was needed...
6 robotics pioneers win 2022 Engelberger Awards
The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) announced its six recipients of the 2022 Engelberger Robotics Awards: Michael P. Jacobs of Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), Oussama Khatib of Stanford University, Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics, Bertil...