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Carbon Nanotube Transistors Finally Outperform Silicon
Back in the 1990s, observers predicted that the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) would be the nanomaterial that pushed silicon aside and created a post-CMOS...
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The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors
Transistors, the electronic amplifiers and switches found at the heart of everything from pocket radios to warehouse-size supercomputers, were invented in 1947.
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Goat Robot Leg Demonstrates Explosive Jumping
Carnegie Mellon University's Simon Kalouche is developing a new design for legs that would enable a robot to navigate the terrain a goat typically traverses.
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Robot Octopus Points the Way to Soft Robotics With Eight Wiggly Arms
Several labs from European and Israeli universities have together built a robot 0ctopus.
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Top Programming Languages Trends: The Rise of Big Data
Big data programming languages are gaining in importance because they enable the mining of massive datasets.
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Single-Actuator Wave Robot Zips Around With High-Speed Wiggles
David Zarrouk of Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev has developed a robot that can move forward and backward by producing a continuously advancing wave...
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Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore's Law Roadmap Predicts
The 2015 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors predicts the transistor could stop shrinking in only five years.
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How the World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Inched Toward the Exascale
China's Sunway TaihuLight in June topped the Top500 list as the world's most powerful supercomputer.
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Wheeled Robot With Soft Rotary Motors Is 100-Percent Squishy
Rutgers University researchers have put four silicone-based wheels with air-powered motors inside of them on a robot that is as soft as a Crocs shoe.
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Durus Brings Human-Like Gait (and Fancy Shoes) to Hyper-Efficient Robots
SRI International's DURUS robot can now walk like a human while wearing normal shoes.
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Haptic Taco Helps You Navigate By Feel
Yale University researchers are developing small haptic peripherals to help drivers navigate using just their sense of touch.
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How to Build a Moral Robot
With robots expected to play an increasingly critical role in making judgment calls where human lives are at stake, it is imperative to model moral reasoning in...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Says AI Will Make Him Smarter, Cooler
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt says the next major trend in the technology industry will be artificial intelligence.
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Jumproach Is a Robotic Bug That Leaps and Flips Just Like an Insect
Researchers say they have developed a new kind of jumping mechanism for robots that has the potential to scale from tiny hops to a catapult launch.
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Nsa Can Legally Access Metadata of 25,000 Callers Based on a Single Suspect's Phone
Despite changes to the law, the U.S. National Security Agency can still request metadata from tens of thousands of private phones if they are indirectly connected...
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Holoflex: A Flexible Smartphone With a Holographic Display
The HoloFlex is a flexible smartphone with a holographic lightfield display that can simultaneously project glasses-free three-dimensional images to multiple users...
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Tiny Little Multi-Modal Picobug Walks, Flies, Grabs Stuff
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Laboratory have designed a robot called Picobug that can fly and walk, and soon will be able to grab things...
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How Google Wants to Solve Robotic Grasping By Letting Robots Learn For Themselves
Google Research is letting robots them learn for themselves how to grasp objects.
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What's the Year, Make, and Model of Your Vehicular Cloud?
Old Dominion University engineers want to use Internet-connected cars as a cloud computing resource.
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