Video Friday: Reflex Grasping

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Shapeshifting Nano-Devices Slide Into Place

The world’s smallest conventional electronics—devices only nanometers in scale—are typically like any other solid object large or small. When they’re manufactured, they’re molded into a shape, and the item retains that same shape over the course of its functional lifetime. Yet what if nanoscale electronic components and devices could shapeshift?…

"Liquid" Neural Network Adapts on the Go

In the realm of artificial intelligence, bigger is supposed to be better. Neural networks with billions of parameters power everyday AI-based tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E, and each new large language model (LLM) edges out its predecessors in size and complexity. Meanwhile, at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory…

Video Friday: Googly Eye

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Industry Out of Phase With Supercomputers

Technical and economic changes in the semiconductor industry threaten to stifle U.S. development of the next generation of high-performance computers, warns a new report from the National Research Council.With Moore’s law and the scaling of transistors waning, the industry is turning to chip designs that don’t work for supercomputing used…