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The use of blockchain technology as a communication tool for a team of robots could provide security and safeguard against deception, according to a study by researchers at MIT and Polytechnic University of Madrid. The research may also have applications in cities...

The new five-year plan for the robotics industry is principally a good sign for China’s robotics industry. Whereas other parts of the Chinese technology sector have been hit by stricter regulatory measures in the past year, this plan highlights the ongoing political...

Developing SLAM systems is resource intensive, technically challenging, and expensive. In addition, the lack of common and shareable approaches for understanding the operational environment shared by robotics systems and humans has resulted in a multitude of system...

CubeRover, engineered by Astrobotic’s Planetary Mobility department, was designed to offer an affordable service used to carry and operate diverse scientific instruments and payloads on the surface of the moon. The post Next generation of moon rovers appeared first on...

The National AI Initiative Office (NAIIO), part of The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), has established the AI Researchers Portal. The post National AI Initiative Office Launches AI Researchers Portal appeared first on HPCwire.

While there are now a slew of approved, effective vaccines that curb COVID-19 infections, there is only one FDA-approved therapeutic to fight ongoing COVID-19 infection: remdesivir. This relative lack of medications for COVID-19 patients has left researchers hunting...

Researchers are developing new pathways to create and protect quantum coherence. Doing so will enable exquisitely sensitive measurement and information processing devices that function at ambient or even extreme conditions. The post Berkeley Lab Research Team Unlocks...

The Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) announced the public availability of an open-source suite of application-oriented performance benchmark programs for quantum computing. This suite of quantum computing benchmarking tools was developed by the QED-C...

IBM announced a suite of environmental intelligence software that leverages AI to help organizations prepare for and respond to weather and climate risks that may disrupt business, more easily assess their own impact on the planet, and reduce the complexity of...

Space weather has been getting a lot of attention lately, with research from University College London, the Princeton Physics Plasma Laboratory, the University of Alabama in Huntsville and NASA each getting their own HPCwire headlines over the past year or so for...

X chromosome inactivation equalizes the active X chromosomes between mammals with two X chromosomes and mammals with one X and one Y chromosome – however, the mechanisms of this inactivation have not been understood at a granular level due to the coarseness of...

In this Robot Report podcast, WTWH Media’s Robotics Group review the leading robotics and automation trends, along with the most inspirational stories, of 2021. The post The Leading Robotics and Automation Stories, Trends and Milestones of 2021 appeared first on...