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Student-Built Robot Rover on Track to Explore the Moon
Iris, a tiny wheeled robot built by students at Carnegie Mellon University, is expected to be the first uncrewed rover from the U.S. to explore the Moon.
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Infrared Goggles, Vibrating Armband Help the Blind 'See'
Researchers incorporated a pair of infrared cameras into prototype goggles to help blind and visually impaired people navigate their environment intuitively.
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Ultrathin Materials Lead to Big Advance in Quantum Computing
Using ultrathin materials to reduce the size of superconducting qubits may pave the way for personal-sized quantum devices.
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U.S. Government Releases National Strategic Plan for Quantum Workforce Development
The agencies also announced U.S. plans to participate in World Quantum Day, an international event to be held on April 14.
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Robots Marched On in 2021, with Record Orders by North American firms
Factories and other industrial users ordered 28% more robots last year than in 2020, according to data compiled by the Association for Advancing Automation.
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VR to the ER: Metaverse Early Adopters Prove Accident-Prone
Tally includes broken vases, dislocated shoulders, injured girlfriends; "Why don't you go to the gym like a normal person?"
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GPU Fingerprinting Can Be Used to Track You Online
And we thought cookies were dangerous enough.
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A New Method for Quantum Computing
Physicists have proposed a new scalable quantum computing architecture using trapped ions.
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Solving Superconducting Mystery with Supercomputer Computations
A multi-institutional team of researchers has demonstrated that phonons contribute to superconductivity in copper-based materials.
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Smartphone, MD: Going Viral
A smartphone application and laboratory kit can diagnose COVID-19, COVID variants, and flu virus infections.
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Lego Robot with an Organic 'Brain' Learns to Navigate a Maze
The neuromorphic computing device solved the puzzle by working like an animal brain would.
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Robot Performs Keyhole Surgery on Pigs
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University programmed a robot to perform minimally invasive keyhole surgery on pigs.
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Software Is Crammed Full of Bugs. This 'Exciting' Project Could Banish Most of Them
Chip designer Arm has released a prototype development board based on the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) architecture.
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Scientists Simulate 'Fingerprint' of Noise on Quantum Computer
Researchers developed a technique that creates a "fingerprint" of noise on a quantum computer, as seen by a simulation running on the machine.
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How the Computer Chip Shortage Could Incite a U.S. Conflict With China
A war game and study by a think tank illustrate how dependent the world is on Taiwan's semiconductor foundries.
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IBM Research Reveals Method to Double Size of Quantum Simulations
IBM researchers doubled the size of quantum simulations while halving the number of quantum bits required, via a method called entanglement forging.
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A New Language for Quantum Computing
Twist is an MIT-developed programming language that can describe and verify which pieces of data are entangled to prevent bugs in a quantum program.
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Robots Rise to Meet the Challenge of Caring for Older Adults
Robotic assistants could be used in nursing and retirement homes to help seniors care for themselves and assist with chores.
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