The Planar Elliptical Runner is a two-legged robot that will help explore how mechanical design can be used to enable sophisticated legged locomotion.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2017
What looks like a tiny mechanical ostrich chasing after a car is actually a significant leap forward for robot-kind.
Technology Review From ACM News | May 3, 2017
A team of Google researchers by the end of this year plans to build a device that achieves "quantum supremacy."
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 25, 2017
William Kochevar of Cleveland can slowly move his right arm and hand. No big deal—except that the 56-year-old had been paralyzed from the shoulders down since a...Technology Review From ACM News | March 30, 2017
Nature. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Technology Review From ACM News | March 28, 2017
Intelligence agents and military operatives may come to rely heavily on machine learning to parse huge quantities of data, and to control a growing arsenal of autonomous...Technology Review From ACM News | March 22, 2017
This month IBM and Google both said they aim to commercialize quantum computers within the next few years (Google specified five), selling access to the exotic...Technology Review From ACM News | March 20, 2017
In the red corner, weighing in with just five qubits, a quantum computer from the University of Maryland in College Park. In the blue corner, also with five qubits...Technology Review From ACM News | February 22, 2017
Engineers at Corning's research lab in New York are developing new materials in their quest to expand the capabilities of glass.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 13, 2017
In labs testing how brain implants could help people with physical disabilities, tales of success can be bittersweet.
Technology Review From ACM News | February 10, 2017
The U.K.'s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is based at a restricted military base in Porton Down, not far from the ancient monument of Stonehenge in southwest...Technology Review From ACM News | January 24, 2017
The U.S. Air Force Research Lab is exploring whether brain-inspired computer chips could give satellites, aircraft, and drones the ability to automatically identify...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2017
Researchers at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China have built a single-pixel camera that can capture images of objects even when they are not in direct view.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 11, 2017
Artificial intelligence researchers are constructing systems that can visualize the three-dimensional world and take action.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2016
A growing mass of poorly secured devices on the Internet of things represents a serious risk to life and property, and the government must intervene to mitigate...Technology Review From ACM News | December 6, 2016