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Facebook Built a Fiber-Spinning Robot to Make Internet Service Cheaper
Engineers have developed a robot that can install fiber cables on medium-voltage power lines.
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Light Shaken, Stirred to Help Autonomous Vehicles Better Scan for Nearby Fast-Moving Objects
Researchers have developed a technique for realizing higher-resolution detection of nearby fast-moving objects in frequency modulated continuous wave LiDAR, critical...
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Trump Administration Establishes $75-Million Quantum Computing Centers
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. National Science Foundation are investing $75 million in three quantum computing centers.
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Demand for Robot Cooks Rises as Kitchens Combat Covid-19
Restaurant chains are testing the use of cooking robots.
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Autonomous Vehicles to Race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Over three dozen universities worldwide will compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge, a race between self-driving vehicles to be held at the Indianapolis Motor...
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Transparent, Reflective Objects Now Within Grasp of Robots
Roboticists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a technique that uses a color camera to enable robots to pick up transparent and reflective objects...
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'Hands Free': Automakers Race to Next Level of Not-Quite-Self-Driving Cars
Auto industry executives are speeding up plans to automate routine driving tasks and aim to make the technologies widely available within five years.
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Researchers 3D-Print Working Heart Pump with Real Human Cells
Researchers have three-dimensionally (3D) printed a functioning human heart pump in a laboratory.
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Utah, Georgia Install Tech That Lets Roads Talk
Utah and Georgia are testing vehicle-to-everything technology installed in roads to alert drivers to hazards.
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Machine Learning Helps Robot Swarms Coordinate
A new machine learning technique can govern the coordinated movement of flying robot swarms in order to avoid collisions.
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Giving Robots Human-Like Perception of Their Physical Environments
Kimera builds a dense three-dimensional semantic mesh of an environment and can track humans in the environment.
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Google, Amazon, J&J Join WHO to Fight Covid-Era Smoking
Google, Amazon, and Johnson & Johnson have joined the World Health Organization effort to combat the global Covid-19 pandemic's threat to smokers, partly with artificial...
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This Device Keeps Voice Assistants From Snooping on You
An international team of researchers has developed a Raspberry Pi-based device that eventually may be able to warn users when Amazon's Alexa and other voice assistants...
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Japanese Robot to Clock In at Convenience Store
In August, a robot made by Japanese developer Telexistence will prepare food at a FamilyMart convenience store.
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How 'Sustainable' Web Design Can Help Fight Climate Change
To cut the carbon, programmers are cutting the code. Call it green programming.
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Bill Gates-Backed Company to Hunt for Cobalt Near Glencore Mine
Kobold Metals, a startup backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and others, aims to search for cobalt near a nickel mine in northern Quebec using data analytics.
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Supercomputer Finds Existing Osteoporosis Drug with Potential for Treating Covid-19
A European Union-supported supercomputing platform has identified a generic osteoporosis drug's potential effectiveness against Covid-19.
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Tech to Contain Coronavirus on College Campuses Sparks Fresh Privacy Concerns
U.S. colleges are racing to contain the Covid-19 pandemic with technology including contact-tracing applications and facial recognition, prompting concerns about...
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