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Mit's Modular Robotic Chain Is Whatever You Want It to Be
Researchers have developed an improved version of last year's LineFORM multifunctional snake robot that introduces modularity to the system.
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Indium Selenide Takes on the Mantle of the New Wonder Material
Is there a research institute with a more distinguished pedigree in graphene research than the University of Manchester?
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Robots With Warm Skin Know What They're Touching
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new kind of robotic skin that incorporates active heating.
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Leading Chipmakers Eye Euv Lithography to Save Moore's Law
Even after you don a bunny suit and get deep inside Fab 8, it's hard to get a sense of scale.
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Fujitsu Memory Tech Speeds Up Deep-Learning AI
Japan-based Fujitsu has developed an approach to accelerating parallel computing driven by deep-learning neural network algorithms.
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Google Translate Gets a Deep-Learning pgrade
Google has launched a Google Translate upgrade utilizing enhanced deep-learning techniques to produce more accurate translations.
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Cheap Lidar: The Key to Makingself-Driving Cars Affordable
Chances are you've never seen a fully autonomous self-driving car out on the street.
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Carbon Nanotube Transistors Finally Outperform Silicon
Back in the 1990s, observers predicted that the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) would be the nanomaterial that pushed silicon aside and created a post-CMOS...
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The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors
Transistors, the electronic amplifiers and switches found at the heart of everything from pocket radios to warehouse-size supercomputers, were invented in 1947.
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Top Programming Languages Trends: The Rise of Big Data
Big data programming languages are gaining in importance because they enable the mining of massive datasets.
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In-Ear Eeg Makes nobtrusive Brain-Hacking Gadgets a Real Possibility
Two research teams are developing electroencephalogram sensors that fit inside the ear.
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Haptic Taco Helps You Navigate By Feel
Yale University researchers are developing small haptic peripherals to help drivers navigate using just their sense of touch.
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How to Build a Moral Robot
With robots expected to play an increasingly critical role in making judgment calls where human lives are at stake, it is imperative to model moral reasoning in...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Says AI Will Make Him Smarter, Cooler
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt says the next major trend in the technology industry will be artificial intelligence.
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Jumproach Is a Robotic Bug That Leaps and Flips Just Like an Insect
Researchers say they have developed a new kind of jumping mechanism for robots that has the potential to scale from tiny hops to a catapult launch.
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Researchers Teaching Robots to Feel and React to Pain
Researchers are developing an "artificial robot nervous system to teach robots how to feel pain" and quickly react in order to avoid potential damage.
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This Robot ses Machine Learning to Take Care of Absent-Minded Humans
The Watch-bot robot can independently learn a user's household activity patterns to provide helpful reminders.
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Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing control algorithms that enable small-scale autonomous cars to race around dirt tracks at high...
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Nsa Can Legally Access Metadata of 25,000 Callers Based on a Single Suspect's Phone
Despite changes to the law, the U.S. National Security Agency can still request metadata from tens of thousands of private phones if they are indirectly connected...
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