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The Calculator That Helped Land Men on the Moon

21 Μαΐου 2019 by paulkokos

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Olivetti’s Programma 101 embodied the company’s holistic approach to technical efficiency, ease of use, and smart design Photo: Elisabetta Mori After the sale of its computer business to General Electric in 1964, Italy’s Olivetti managed to retain control of its small electronic calculators. The most notable of these would be the…

The Italian Computer: Olivetti's ELEA 9003 Was a Study in Elegant, Ergonomic Design

21 Μαΐου 2019 by paulkokos

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In 1959, Olivetti introduced one of the first transistorized mainframes and started its own transistor company Illustration: Ciaj Rocchi and Matteo Demonte (courtesy of La Lettura/Il Corriere della Sera) Digital Future: In the 1950s, Adriano Olivetti [left], the head of Italy’s Olivetti Co., decided that computers were the company’s future,…

Atom Power Is Launching the Era of Digital Circuit Breakers

21 Μαΐου 2019 by paulkokos

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New digital circuit breakers that combine computing power with wireless connectivity may finally replace an 140-year-old electromechanical technologyIn the dark, dank depths of your home basement hangs a drab gray box that guards the building’s electrical circuits. The circuit breakers inside switch off current flow when there is risk of…

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X-ray Detection May Be Perovskites’ Killer App

20 Μαΐου 2019 by paulkokos

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The wonder crystal could yield imagers that are far more sensitive than commercial detectors Photo: National University of Singapore Better Detectors: Xiaogang Liu [right] and Qiushui Chen at the National University of Singapore developed perovskite nanocrystals that absorb X-rays better than conventional materials do. The crystalline material known as perovskite…

NVIDIA Brings Robot Simulation Closer to Reality by Making Humans Redundant

20 Μαΐου 2019 by paulkokos

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Learning in simulation no longer takes human expertise to make it useful in the real worldWe all know how annoying real robots are. They’re expensive, they’re finicky, and teaching them to do anything useful takes an enormous amount of time and effort. One way of making robot learning slightly more…

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Video Friday: The Army Has a Bigger Robotic Vehicle Than You Do

17 Μαΐου 2019 by paulkokos

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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosVideo Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Nîmes Robotics Festival…

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Software Versus Hardware: The Future of VR Audio Hangs in the Balance

16 Μαΐου 2019 by paulkokos

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Dirac creates immersive audio for VR with algorithms while Harman patents flying robotic speakersHardware and software engineers, as the perennial lightbulb jokes point out, see the world differently. And indeed, a number of problems can be solved either way; the choice is not always obvious, at least at the time.…

Radar for Your Wrist

16 Μαΐου 2019 by paulkokos

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imec chip acts as personal radar for smartwatch gesture recognitionTired of trying to tap icons on small smartwatch screens? Some day you could just swipe right through the air above them thanks to miniaturized radar technology and its accompanying gesture recognition technology in development at imec, the Belgium-based R&D center.…

Robonaut and Astrobee Will Work Together on Space Station

15 Μαΐου 2019 by paulkokos

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NASA's robots will help each other with useful tasks on the International Space StationNASA has two robots that will, hopefully, be operating on the International Space Station (ISS) this year. There’s Robonaut, a humanoid (complete with legs) that will be on its way up there later this year, as well as…

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Digital Doppelgängers Fool Advanced Anti-Fraud Tech

15 Μαΐου 2019 by paulkokos

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With traces of a user’s browsing history and online behavior, hackers can build a fake virtual “twin” and use it to log in to a victim's accountsAs new security technologies shield us from cybercrime, a slew of adversarial technologies match them, step for step. The latest such advance is the…

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