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Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver
Jouarre, a nursing facility outside Paris, is using a robot to help care for elderly patients.
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Virtual Reality Goes on Trial
VR could significantly change the way jurors and judges weigh evidence in the courtroom.
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China Is Building a $9 Billion Rival to the American-Run GPS
China is taking its rivalry with the U.S. to the heavens, spending at least $9 billion to build a celestial navigation system and cut its dependence on the American...
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K Police Wants AI to Stop Violent Crime Before It Happens
Police in the UK want to predict serious violent crime using artificial intelligence, New Scientist can reveal. The idea is that individuals flagged by the system...
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Stanford Develops an Electronic Glove That Gives Robots a Sense of Touch
Stanford University researchers have developed an electronic glove equipped with sensors that could give robotic hands human dexterity.
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As Immigrant Farmworkers Become More Scarce, Robots Replace Humans
In response to the diminishing supply of immigrant labor, the U.S. agriculture sector is increasingly turning to robots that can do the work traditionally done...
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What's Next for NASA's New Mars Lander?
The new Mars lander will begin investigating the planet's interior in several months, after deploying and calibrating a burrowing heat probe and a suite of seismometers...
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China Leapfrogs .S. in Supercomputer Deployments
The latest iteration of the biannual Top500 ranking found China has increased its domestic supercomputer installations to more than twice the number found in the...
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Quantum Computing: Atomic Clocks Make for Longer-Lasting Qubits
A decade ago, quantum computing was still something of a parlor game.
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InSight Is Catching Rays on Mars
NASA's InSight has sent signals to Earth indicating that its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight on the Martian surface.
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China's Great Wall Is 'Crumbling.' Now Architects Are sing Drones to Save It.
China is deploying drones to scan portions of the Great Wall reportedly too hazardous to cross, compiling information to support its rehabilitation.
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The Looming Crisis in the Internet of Things
California tries to legislate IoT security.
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Maryland Test Confirms Drones Can Safely Deliver Human Organs
University of Maryland researchers have tested organ delivery via aerial drone.
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You Will Be Replaced. Here's How
Route 9 skims by Boston and cuts clear across Massachusetts to Pittsfield, a city of roughly 50,000, the largest in Berkshire County.
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NASA’s Mars InSight Mission Lands on Red Planet's Surface
The InSight lander, NASA's latest foray to the red planet, has landed.
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NASA InSight Team on Course for Mars Touchdown
NASA's Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft is on track for a soft touchdown on the surface of...
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Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts
Behind a thin white veil separating his makeshift lab from joggers at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology indoor track, aerospace engineer Steven Barrett recently...
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The Microscope Revolution that's Sweeping Through Materials Science
Scientists can't study what they can't measure, as David Muller knows only too well.
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Just a Few Self-Driving Cars Stop Traffic Jams
University of California, Berkeley researchers demonstrated that a few self-driving cars can prevent traffic jams, and in some cases double the average speed of...
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