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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
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Optimizing Optimization Algorithms
Optimization algorithms, which try to find the minimum values of mathematical functions, are everywhere in engineering. Among other things, they're used to evaluate...
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Vision System For Household Robots
A new algorithm can aggregate perspectives and recognize four times as many objects as one that uses a single perspective, while reducing misidentifications.
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Vision System For Household Robots
For household robots ever to be practical, they'll need to be able to recognize the objects they're supposed to manipulate.
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Spin Designers
The Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces, and Novel Architectures wants to use the spin of electrons on nanomagnets to encode zeros and ones in computers...
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In One Aspect of Vision, Computers Catch p to Primate Brain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have found the most recent version of deep neural networks match the primate brain.
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New Way to Turn Genes On
Using a gene-editing system originally developed to delete specific genes, MIT researchers have now shown that they can reliably turn on any gene of their choosing...
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More-Flexible Digital Communication
Researchers say they have begun to describe theoretical limits on the degree of imprecision that communicating computers can tolerate.
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Detecting Gases Wirelessly and Cheaply
MIT chemists have devised a new way to wirelessly detect hazardous gases and environmental pollutants, using a simple sensor that can be read by a smartphone.
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New Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical
Researchers have developed a new kind of load driver that could enable biological circuits to behave almost as predictably as electronic circuits.
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Harnessing Error-Prone Chips
Chisel is a new system that lets programmers identify sections of their code that can tolerate small errors.
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Superconducting Circuits, Simplified
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a nanocryotron , a computing circuit based on the cryotron.
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Solid Nanoparticles Can Deform Like a Liquid
A surprising phenomenon has been found in metal nanoparticles: They appear, from the outside, to be liquid droplets, wobbling and readily changing shape, while...
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Fingertip Sensor Gives Robot nprecedented Dexterity
Researchers have developed a robot equipped with tactile sensors that enable it to grasp a USB cable draped over a hook and insert it into a USB port.
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Will Tomorrow's Robots Move Like Snakes?
Researchers have developed a soft robotic arm, inspired by octopus tentacles, that can snake through a pipelike environment without a human operator.
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Bound for Robotic Glory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding, and successfully implemented it in a robotic cheetah.
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Where to Grab Space Debris
A new algorithm can be used to gauge the rotation of objects in zero gravity using only visual information.
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Where to Grab Space Debris
Objects in space tend to spin—and spin in a way that's totally different from the way they spin on earth.
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Manual Control
Mezzanine is a collaborative-conferencing system that enables multiple users to share and control digital content from any device using gesture controls.
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Origami Robot Folds Itself p, Crawls Away
For years, a team of researchers at MIT and Harvard University has been working on origami robots—reconfigurable robots that would be able to fold themselves into...
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