Next week, I’m giving a talk on robotics at InfoShare, one of the biggest tech conferences in my region. As always, I’m looking forward to talking robotics and hype things up a little bit. Working on that presentation made me realise how…
Category: Engineering
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Weekly Robotics #336
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AI creates the first 100-billion-star Milky Way simulation
Researchers led by Keiya Hirashima at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) in Japan, working with partners from The University of Tokyo and Universitat de Barcelona in Spain, have created the first…
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Physicists reveal a new quantum state where electrons run wild
Electricity keeps modern life running, from cars and phones to computers and nearly every device we rely on. It works through the movement of electrons traveling through a circuit. Although these particles are far too small to see, the electric…
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Chimps shock scientists by changing their minds with new evidence
Chimpanzees may share more with human thinkers than researchers once realized. A new study published in Science presents compelling evidence that chimpanzees can revise their beliefs in a rational way when they encounter new information.
The…
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A single beam of light runs AI with supercomputer power
Tensor operations are a form of advanced mathematics that support many modern technologies, especially artificial intelligence. These operations go far beyond the simple calculations most people encounter. A helpful way to picture them is to…
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Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Drones, Humanoid Robots, More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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The Rise and Fall of Apple’s Mac Clones Era
There’s a class of consumer that wants something they know they cannot have. For some of those people, a Macintosh computer not made by Apple has long been a desired goal.
For most of the Mac’s history, you could only really get one from…
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Breakthrough shows light can move atoms in 2D semiconductors
Researchers at Rice University have found that certain atom-thin semiconductors, known as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), can physically shift their atomic lattice when exposed to light. This newly observed response offers a controllable…
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Robot Talk Episode 133 – Creating sociable robot collaborators, with Heather Knight
Claire chatted to Heather Knight from Oregon State University about applying methods from the performing arts to robotics.
Heather Knight runs the CHARISMA Robotics research group. Her…
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Scientists uncover hidden atomic process that supercharges propylene production
Many familiar items, from plastic squeeze bottles to outdoor furniture, rely on a process that converts propane into propylene. In 2021, a study in Science showed that chemists could use tandem nanoscale catalysts to merge several steps of this…
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