Tunisian startup Cure Bionics has developed a three-dimensionally-printed solar-powered bionic hand, to help amputees and other disabled people throughout Africa...France24 From ACM TechNews | November 10, 2020
University of Michigan researchers have developed a model that simplifies robots' ability to follow commands by allowing them to understand what people are saying...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2020
Engineers in Switzerland have developed a computer chip that combines logic operations and data storage in a single architecture.
EPFL (Switzerland) From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2020
Researchers used biomimetic fish-like robots to demonstrate that fish save energy by swimming in schools without having to keep fixed distances from each other....University of Konstanz (Germany) From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2020
An international team of researchers modified long-range drones that collect data from active volcanoes, in order to better forecast eruptions.
UCL News From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2020
Researchers developed the Multimodal Transistor to produce efficient analog computation for robotic control, artificial intelligence, and unsupervised machine learning...University of Surrey (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | November 5, 2020
Researchers at the Finnish Meteorological Institute joined the biggest Arctic expedition in history to fly the first drone near the North Pole.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2020
U.S. election officials used voting machines and other devices linked to the "sneakernet" to process results from Tuesday's elections.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2020
The White Castle restaurant chain said it is expanding the use of the Flippy Robot-on-a-Rail system to more U.S. locations.
Forbes From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2020
Each subscriber gets eight or sixteen hours per month of dedicated time with Honeywell scientists to run algorithms on the trapped-ion hardware.
ZDNet From ACM News | October 30, 2020
High-resolution three-axis accelerometers and GPS tracking built into smartphones, along with an app, can provide useful measures of road roughness for civil engineers...University of Birmingham (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | October 30, 2020
Computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University used positive reinforcement to show a robot how to teach itself new tasks quickly.
Johns Hopkins Hub From ACM TechNews | October 30, 2020
Researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands created the world's smallest boat using an electron microscope and a high-resolution three-dimensional printer...CNN From ACM TechNews | October 30, 2020
Researchers at the University of Leeds in the U.K. report the development of what they are calling the first biomimetic tongue using three-dimensional printing....Daily Mail (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | October 28, 2020
The Louisiana National Guard has been called in to investigate a series of cyberattacks aimed at small government offices across the state.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | October 28, 2020
It conveys electricity in the climate of a crisp fall day, but only under pressures comparable to what you'd find closer to Earth's core.
The New York Times From ACM News | October 28, 2020
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Michigan have developed a technique for generating non-volatile computer memory using titanium...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2020