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Scaling Up the Quantum Chip
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed a process for manufacturing and integrating artificial atoms with photonic circuitry.
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CSAIL Robot Disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank
A group of researchers designed a robotic system that disinfects surfaces and neutralizes aerosolized forms of Covid-19.
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Engineers Put Tens of Thousands of Artificial Brain Synapses on a Single Chip
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have designed a 'brain on a chip' composed of tens of thousands of memristors.
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How Many Jobs do Robots Really Replace?
Two economics professors have determined that the replacement of human workers by robots is a tangible trend, although they say claims of total automation are overstated...
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Reducing the Carbon Footprint of AI
Researchers have developed an automated artificial intelligence system for training and running certain types of neural networks, which has a small carbon footprint...
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Sensors Woven Into a Shirt Can Monitor Vital Signs
Researchers have developed a method of incorporating electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics to create clothes that monitor vital signs.
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Engineers 3D-Print Soft, Rubbery Brain Implants
Engineers have developed a way to three-dimensionally print neural probes and other electronic devices that are as soft and flexible as rubber.
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System Trains Driverless Cars in Simulation Before They Hit the Road
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have created a simulation system to train driverless cars prior to their deployment on actual streets.
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Showing Robots How to Do Your Chores
A new system allows robots to learn complicated tasks that would normally confuse them with too many complicated rules.
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Integrating Electronics Onto Physical Prototypes
MIT researchers directly integrated three-dimensionally (3D)-printed platforms onto physical products.
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Cryptographic 'Tag of Everything' Could Protect Supply Chain
A new cryptographic identity tag can be attached to virtually any product in order to verify its authenticity.
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Engineers Design Bionic 'Heart' for Testing Prosthetic Valves, Other Cardiac Devices
Researchers have built a "biorobotic hybrid heart" from heart tissue and a robotic pumping system for testing prosthetic valves and other cardiac devices.
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Toward More Efficient Computing, With Magnetic Waves
A new circuit design enables computing using magnetic waves, rather than electricity.
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Self-Transforming Robot Blocks Jump, Spin, Flip, Identify Each Other
Researchers have developed self-assembling robotic cubes that can climb over and around one another, leap through the air, and roll across the ground.
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Engineers Develop Multimaterial Fiber 'Ink' for 3D-Printed Devices
A new method utilizes standard three-dimensional printers to produce functioning devices with electronics already embedded within them.
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Guided by AI, Robotic Platform Automates Molecule Manufacture
A new artificial intelligence-guided system uses robots to automate small-molecule fabrication.
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Phone Movement Predicts Personality Types
Researchers in Australia used data from the accelerometers in mobile phones to predict users' personalities.
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Automated System Generates Robotic Parts for Novel Tasks
Researchers have developed an automated system that can design and print in three dimensions complex robotic parts optimized to a large number of specifications...
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Algorithm Tells Robots Where Nearby Humans are Headed
A new algorithm accurately aligns partial trajectories in real time, allowing motion predictors in self-driving cars to accurately anticipate the timing of a person's...
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