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As Robots Fill the Workplace, They Must Learn to Get Along
Singapore's Changi General Hospital is using software from Open Robotics to avoid standoffs among its robots in hallways or outside elevators.
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Drones Could Begin Vaccine Deliveries in April, Firm Says
Drone delivery service Zipline has partnered with "a leading manufacturer of Covid-19 vaccines" to start dispatching doses to global partner sites as soon as April...
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Robot Satellite Swarms Increase Communication Possibilities
A space mission currently underway aims to maximize the effectiveness of CubeSats by showing how they could track and communicate with each other.
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ENIAC Turns 75
The first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer was introduced to the world on Valentine’s Day in 1946.
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How Will 'Chipageddon' Affect You?
Like much else wrong with the world, the coronavirus is partly to blame.
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No Quick Fix for Auto Chip Shortage
Over-reliance on TSMC and soaring cost of old gear limits capacity expansion.
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Flying Robots Suggest Bees Can't Rely on Instinct to Land on Flowers
Researchers used small drones to study how bees land on a flower.
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Quantum Systems Learn Joint Computing
Researchers connected two quantum bits (qubits) in two different laboratories to a distributed quantum computer via a 60-meter (196-foot) optical fiber.
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Scientists Achieve 'Transformational' Breakthrough in Scaling Quantum Computers
The Gooseberry cryogenic computer chip can operate at ‘millikelvin’ temperatures approaching absolute zero.
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Ford's Spin Wants to Curb E-Scooter Dumping with Remote-Controlled Three-Wheelers
Ford Motor's Spin division has announced a new service allowing electronic scooter operators to remotely move their scooters if they wind up in public spaces.
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Using ML to Solve Engineering Challenges
Researchers developed and used a machine learning algorithm to extract five optimal designs from 250,000 possible designs for an electric power system for an autonomous...
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Tracking Down DOPE, the First Computer Language for Normal Humans
DOPE has remained hidden because it was successful.
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High-Performance Computers Under Siege by Newly Discovered Backdoor
Researchers at Slovak security firm Eset said a newly discovered backdoor allows hackers to remotely execute arbitrary commands on some high-performance computer...
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LED Lighting Development Wins 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
The 2021 QEPrize was awarded for the creation and development of LED lighting to Isamu Akasaki, Shuji Nakamura, Nick Holonyak Jr, M. George Craford and Russell...
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The Spread of Covid-19 Led to Surge in Orders for Factory Robots
Orders for factory robots in North America spiked at the end of 2020 as manufacturers sought to avoid danger for employees amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Mira's Last Journey: Exploring the Dark Universe
Physicists and computer scientists executed a massive cosmological simulation on the Mira supercomputer as that system's final project.
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'Bleep-Bloop-Bleep! Say "Cheese," Human'
Yale University's Marynel Vazquez and colleagues have built a robot photographer called Shutter designed to put humans at ease.
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Robot Delivers the Dough on College Campuses
Delivery robot manufacturer Starship Technologies recently expanded its robot-based food delivery services to two additional campuses.
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