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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

31 Ιουλίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Walk through half a football field’s worth of low partitions, filing cabinets, and desks. Note the curved mirrors hanging from the ceiling, the better to view the maze of engineers, technicians, and support staff of the development laboratory. Shrug when you spot the plastic taped over a few of the…

The Fall and Rise of Russian Electronic Warfare

30 Ιουλίου 2022 by paulkokos

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A month into Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian troops stumbled upon a nondescript shipping container at an abandoned Russian command post outside Kyiv. They did not know it then, but the branch-covered box left by retreating Russian soldiers was possibly the biggest intelligence coup of the young war. Inside were the guts…

Video Games Could Be the Future of Construction

30 Ιουλίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Planning any large-scale project, whether it’s an apartment building, factory, or public infrastructure, is complex—and that complexity can make a project difficult to understand. ArcGIS’ Maps SDK for Unreal Engine aims to solve by pairing the fidelity of Unreal with the accuracy of ArcGIS’ real-time geospatial data.“Whether it’s a flat…

Video Friday: Grip Anything

29 Ιουλίου 2022 by paulkokos

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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.IEEE CASE 2022: 20 August–24 August 2022, MEXICO CITYCLAWAR 2022: 12…

U.S. Passes Landmark Law to Fund Semiconductor Manufacturing

29 Ιουλίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Legislation aimed at increasing semiconductor manufacturing in the United States has finally passed both houses of Congress, following a multiyear journey that saw many mutations and delays. The CHIPS and Science Act, provides about $52 billion over 5 years to grow semiconductor manufacturing and authorizes a 25 percent tax credit…

NASA Sending Two More Helicopters to Mars

29 Ιουλίου 2022 by paulkokos

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NASA has announced a conceptual mission architecture for the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, and it’s a pleasant surprise. The goal of the proposed program is to return the rock samples that the Perseverance rover is currently collecting on the Martian surface to Earth, which, as you can imagine, is…

Is This the Best Semiconductor Ever Found?

27 Ιουλίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Silicon is the foundation of the electronics industry. However, its performance as a semiconductor leaves much to be desired. Now scientists have discovered that an obscure material known as cubic boron arsenide (c-BAs) may perform much better than silicon. In fact, it may be the best semiconductor ever found, and…

Necrobotics: Dead Spiders Reincarnated as Robot Grippers

27 Ιουλίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Bugs have long taunted roboticists with how utterly incredible they are. Astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust, and in some cases, literally dirt cheap. But making a robot that's insect equivalent is extremely hard—so hard that it’s frequently easier to just hijack living insects themselves and put them to work…

Micron Is First to Deliver 3D Flash Chips with More than 200 Layers

26 Ιουλίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Boise, Idaho-based memory manufacturer Micron Technology says it has reached volume production of a 232-layer NAND flash memory chip. It’s the first such chip to pass the 200-layer mark, and it’s been a tight race. Competitors are currently providing 176-layer technology, and some have said they are on track to…

How Robots Can Help Us Act and Feel Younger

23 Ιουλίου 2022 by paulkokos

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By 2050, the global population aged 65 or more will be nearly double what it is today. The number of people over the age of 80 will triple, approaching half a billion. Supporting an aging population is a worldwide concern, but this demographic shift is especially pronounced in Japan, where…

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