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Researchers Develop Ultrathin ‘Metasurface’ Device for Quantum Tech
An ultrathin invention could make future computing, sensing and encryption technologies remarkably smaller and more powerful by helping scientists control a strange but useful phenomenon of quantum mechanics, according to new research recently published in the journal...
Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. Amputees who tested the artificial limb performed daily activities, such as zipping a suitcase, pouring a carton of juice, and petting...
Alphabet testing robots to autonomously clean offices
Alphabet is testing how well a fleet of robots can clean some of Google’s offices around the Bay Area. As an update to its Everyday Robots project that was first talked about in 2019, X, the moonshot division of Alphabet, released more details about how these robots...
It’s Time for Real-World AI on the Edge
Artificial Intelligence has been a key talking point in the high-performance computing and computer science communities for decades now. The post It’s Time for Real-World AI on the Edge appeared first on HPCwire.
Why Waymo’s cars keep hitting same SF dead-end street
A report by KPIX said residents in the Richmond District of San Francisco have recently seen a steady stream of Waymo self-driving cars making u-turns on the dead-end street of 15th Avenue. One resident said the cars come at all hours of the day. The KPIX report even...
BSC’s MareNostrum 4 Supercomputer Forecasts La Palma Volcano’s Ash Clouds
The supercomputer of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), MareNostrum 4, offers daily forecasts to the scientific committee of the Canary Islands Volcanic Emergency Plan (PEVOLCA) on the movements that the emissions arising from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La...
Researchers Discover New Approach to Simulate Complexity of Quantum Cryptographic Attacks
Researchers at Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in the United Arab Emirates have demonstrated a new approach to simulate cryptographic hacking algorithms on a quantum simulator that runs on classical computers. One of the key discoveries was a way to model the...
TurtleBot 4 re-designed from ground up with ROS 2
Clearpath Robotics and Open Robotics announced TurtleBot 4, the next generation of the popular open-source mobile robotics platform. TurtleBot 4 aims to build on the success of previous versions by providing a low-cost, fully extensible, ROS-enabled reference platform...
Six Ways Robotic Automation Benefits CNC Shops… and Their Clients
To streamline the CNC machining process and increase efficiency, companies are increasingly implementing robotic automation in support of various types of CNC machines, such as Lathe, Milling, and Plasma Cutting machines. Incorporating robotic automation into CNC shop...
New Photonic Chip for Isolating Light May Be Key to Miniaturizing Quantum Devices
Given its broad utility, it’s no surprise that light plays a critical role in enabling 21st century quantum information applications. For example, scientists use laser light to precisely control atoms, turning them into ultra-sensitive measures of time, acceleration,...
DOE Launches Artificial Intelligence for Earth System Predictability Workshop
To improve climate simulations, scientists are looking to the potential of artificial intelligence (AI). AI has offered profound insights in fields from materials science to manufacturing, and climate researchers are excited to explore how AI can be used to...
NCSA Introduces a Better Way to Manage Data
Researchers looking for a less cumbersome experience moving data between compute and storage resources have a far better option since the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign introduced Taiga. And,...