Dark Matter Data Saved Via Parachute

A NASA high-altitude balloon flight earlier this year served as reminder of an ever-important lesson: Always back up your data. In April in Wānaka, New Zealand, researchers launched the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope, or SuperBIT, a balloon-based telescope, which aimed to gather data on dark matter distribution by imaging…

Video Friday: GR-1

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.Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX.Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024,…

Radomes: Efficient 3D EM Simulation

Highly efficient implementation of Method-of-Moments (MoM) for radome simulations in WIPL-D suite is described in this comprehensive study. Sophisticated approximations rather than geometrical or physical optics (GO, PO) methods were used. Straightforward usage and effectiveness of in-house developed techniques along with efficient utilization of graphical processing units (GPU) are explained.Download…