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ABB, PAL Robotics showcase mobile manipulator
When ABB opened its healthcare research hub on the Texas Medical Center (TMC) campus in Houston, it showcased a number of concept technologies, including a mobile YuMi robot that assists with laboratory and logistics tasks in hospitals. ABB is taking this mobile...
Light-Matter Interactions Simulated on Fugaku Supercomputer
Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba present an improved way to model interactions between matter and light at the atomic scale The post Light-Matter Interactions Simulated on Fugaku Supercomputer appeared first on HPCwire.
Point One, Quectel making mobile robotics positioning more precise
Point One Navigation and Quectel Wireless Solutions today announced the LG69T-AM, the latest addition to the Quectel LG69T GNSS Module Series (Spec Sheet – PDF). Point One’s positioning engine powers the LG69T-AM and enables centimeter-level global accuracy by...
Supercomputing Research of Laser-Induced Non-Equilibrium Reveals New States of Matter
From the perspective of chemistry and physics, equilibrium is a bit dull – at least to Cheng-Chien Chen, assistant professor of physics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His research tries to engineering new states of matter and control these states by...
Relay+ is Savioke’s next-gen service robot
Savioke unveiled a new generation of its service robot called Relay+. The solution is targeted at intra-facility delivery applications for owners/operators of hotels and office properties, foodservice operators, hospitals and healthcare organizations. The post Relay+...
MiR is building autonomous pallet jacks
Mobile Industrial Robotics (MiR) and Logitrans A/S have teamed up to build autonomous pallet jacks. The companies plan to combine MiR’s autonomous navigation and software capabilities with Logitran’s electric pallet jacks. The plan is to make both a fully autonomous...
Quantinuum Debuts Quantum-based Cryptographic Key Service – Is this Quantum Advantage?
Quantinuum – the newly-named company resulting from the merger of Honeywell’s quantum computing division and UK-based Cambridge Quantum – today launched Quantum Origin, a service to deliver “completely unpredictable cryptographic keys” based random numbers generated...
Solar Power Research Enlists US’s and Europe’s Most Powerful Supercomputers
Photovoltaic solar – what most people know as solar panels – generated a record 821 terawatt-hours in 2020, a 23 percent increase over 2019 and an impressive 3.1 percent of global electricity generation. But with climate change rapidly accelerating, most scientists...
Updated Exascale System for Earth Simulations Is Twice as Fast as Predecessor
The Earth — with its myriad interactions of atmosphere, oceans, land and ice components — presents an extraordinarily complex system for investigation. For researchers, simulating the dynamics of these systems has presented a process that is just as complex. But...
Zapata Computing Releases Global Report on Quantum Adoption in the Enterprise
Quantum computing has moved from the fringes to the core of the digital transformation agenda, according to a new global study,”The First Annual Report on Enterprise Quantum Computing Adoption,” commissioned by Zapata Computing, Inc, a leading enterprise quantum...
Quantum Corp. Accelerates Data-Intensive Autonomous Vehicle Research at MSU
Quantum Corporation today announces its role in accelerating all-terrain autonomous vehicle research at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at Mississippi State University (MSU), one of the premier university automotive research centers in the world. CAVS...
NTT Develops Optical Fiber-Coupled Quantum Light Source
NTT Corporation (NTT, President & CEO: Jun Sawada, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) in cooperation with the University of Tokyo (President: Teruo Fujii, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo) and RIKEN (President: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Wako-shi, Saitama) has developed an optical fiber-coupled quantum...