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Hyundai Brings Wearable Robotics to Factories
The Hyundai Motor Group plans to expand the use of wearable robots at its manufacturing facilities, even as it aims to grow robotics as a source of revenue.
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Tiny Drones Team p to Open Doors
Researchers have developed palm-sized drones that can forcefully tug objects 40 times their own mass by anchoring themselves to the ground or to walls.
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A New Movement in Seismology
Unused telecom fiber might be used to detect earthquakes, uncover other secrets in the soil.
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What Comes After the Roomba?
It has been 16 years since the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner was introduced by iRobot.
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With 5G, You Won't Just Be Watching Video. It'll Be Watching You, Too
Remember the last time you felt terrified during a horror movie? Take that moment, and all the suspense leading up to it, and imagine it individually calibrated...
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Teleportation Over a 6-Kilometre Cable, Courtesy of Quantum Powers
The fibre-optic cables that carry Internet traffic can also be used for a powerful form of the strange phenomenon known as quantum teleportation.
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Recruiting With Virtual Reality
As the market for new employees grows increasingly competitive, some recruiters use virtual reality applications to attract qualified candidates.
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Here's What the Quantum Internet Has in Store
A future 'quantum internet' could find use long before it reaches technological maturity, a team of physicists predicts.
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NOAA Is About to Make Some Big Changes to Its Global Weather Model
The nation's weather and climate organization, NOAA, has appointed a new director of its Environmental Modeling Center.
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3D-Printed Supercapacitor Electrode Breaks Records in Lab Tests
Researchers have developed supercapacitor electrodes using a printable graphene aerogel to build a porous three-dimensional scaffold equipped with pseudocapacitive...
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Perfecting Crops With AI-Powered Indoor Farms
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory's Open Agriculture Initiative has developed a self-contained indoor farm.
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Manufacturers Adopt Robots That Help Human Workers, Not Replace Them. For Now.
Collaborative robots, or “cobots,” are becoming an increasingly popular automation tool for manufacturers seeking to boost productivity.
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Your Brain Is Like 100 Billion Mini-Computers All Working Together
Each of our brain cells could work like a mini-computer, according to the first recording of electrical activity in human cells at a super-fine level of detail....
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.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections
The United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation to interfere in elections, telling...
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AI on a MEMS Device Brings Neuromorphic Computing to the Edge
Researchers have outfitted a micro-electromechanical system with artificial intelligence, enabling neuromorphic computing in a microscale device and bringing edge...
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Double the Fun: Mars Scientists Push NASA to Send Rock-Harvesting Rover to Two Sites
NASA's next Mars rover—the first to gather rock samples meant to come back to Earth—should dream big and visit as many places on the red planet as possible, scientists...
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3D Printers Have Fingerprints, a Discovery That Could Help Trace 3D-Printed Guns, Counterfeit Goods
University at Buffalo researchers have outlined the first accurate technique for tracing a three-dimensionally printed object to the machine that produced it.
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How Robots and Drones Will Change Retail Forever
The world's companies are in the initial stages of what might be called the "physical cloud," an e-commerce ecosystem that functions like the Internet.
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Shaken by Hype, Self-Driving Leaders Adopt New Strategy: Shutting p
Three former executives at Google, Tesla and Uber who once raced to be the first to develop self-driving cars have adopted a new strategy: Slow down. And shut up...
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