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BattleBots: Behind The Scenes With Ghost Raptor

27 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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As a fashiontech designer, I spend a lot of time making sure my designs are safe, whether it's a robotic spider dress, or a prosthetic leg with a built-in Tesla coil and spark gaps. So when I got invited to help update a robot designed to kill other robots in…

For Quantum Computing, Is 99 Percent Accuracy Enough?

27 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Teams of researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, RIKEN in Japan, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, have developed different quantum devices in silicon with operational fidelity greater than 99 percent. Their work was published separately in Nature on January 20. The…

Water Scarcity Concerns Drive Semiconductor Industry to Adopt New Technologies

25 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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In these days of seemingly neverending chip shortages, more and greater varieties of semiconductors are in demand. Chip fabs around the world are now racing to catch up to the world's many microelectronic needs. And chip fabs need a lot of water to operate. By some estimates, a large chip…

Meta Aims to Build the World's Fastest AI Supercomputer

25 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Meta, parent company of Facebook, says it has built a research supercomputer that is among the fastest on the planet. By the middle of this year, when an expansion of the system is complete, it will be the fastest, Meta researchers Kevin Lee and Shubho Sengupta write in a blog…

Rooftop Drones for Autonomous Pigeon Harassment

24 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Feral pigeons are responsible for over a billion dollars of economic losses here in the United States every year. They’re especially annoying because the species isn’t native to this country—they were brought over from Europe (where they’re known as rock doves and are still quite annoying) because you can eat…

Wi-Fi 7 Stomps on the Gas

24 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Consumer technology is often a story of revolutionary leaps followed by a descent into familiarity. The first computers advanced so quickly that new models went obsolete while they were still on store shelves. Today, any US $500 laptop will be relevant for a decade. A similar story can be told…

Video Friday: An Agile Year

21 Ιανουαρίου 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’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!):ICRA 2022: 23–27 May 2022, PhiladelphiaERF 2022:…

Intel Invests $20-billion in Ohio for Advanced Fabs

21 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Intel has chosen to expand its advanced manufacturing in a U.S. state neither the company nor any other chipmaker has a presence in, Ohio. Intel announced today that it will build two leading edge logic fabs east of Columbus at a cost of $20 billion. Construction is set to start…

For Better AR Cameras, Swap Plastic Lenses for Silicon Chips

21 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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This week, startup Metalenz announced that it has created a silicon chip that, paired with an image sensor, can distinguish objects by the way they polarize light. The company says its “PolarEyes” will be able to make facial authentication less vulnerable to spoofing, improve 3D imaging for augmented and virtual…

How Quantum Computers Can Make Batteries Better

21 Ιανουαρίου 2022 by paulkokos

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Hyundai is now partnering with startup IonQ to see how quantum computers can design advanced batteries for electric vehicles, with the aim of creating the largest battery chemistry model yet to be run on a quantum computer, the companies announced yesterday.A quantum computer with high enough complexity—for instance, enough components…

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