Robotics
Alone at home, your bones creaky due to old age, you crave a cool beverage. You turn to your robot and say, "Please get me a tall glass of water from the refrigerator." Your AI-trained companion obliges. Soon, your thirst ...
Dec 13, 2023
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Engineering
The zinc smelting industry is facing new challenges in meeting China's carbon peak and carbon neutrality targets. To address these challenges, researchers from Central South University in China have developed a control method ...
Sep 29, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
With its head-spinning size and connections, the power system is so complex that even supercomputers struggle to efficiently solve certain optimization problems. But quantum computers might fare better, and now researchers ...
Jul 18, 2023
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Computer Sciences
In theory, quantum computers vastly outperform classical computers in terms of computing speed. For them to do so in practice, it is necessary to design more and novel high-speed algorithms, says ETH supercomputing specialist ...
May 26, 2023
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Computer Sciences
According to computational complexity theory, mathematical problems have different levels of difficulty in the context of their solvability. While a classical computer can solve some problems (P) in polynomial time—i.e., ...
Apr 28, 2023
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Robotics
Robots are all around us, from drones filming videos in the sky to serving food in restaurants and diffusing bombs in emergencies. Slowly but surely, robots are improving the quality of human life by augmenting our abilities, ...
Mar 8, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose diseases, to name just a few examples ...
Jan 30, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Tohoku University scientists in Japan have developed a mathematical description of what happens within tiny magnets as they fluctuate between states when an electric current and magnetic field are applied. Their findings, ...
Aug 26, 2022
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Computer Sciences
When users want to send data over the internet faster than the network can handle, congestion can occur—the same way traffic congestion snarls the morning commute into a big city.
Aug 4, 2022
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Computer Sciences
University of Virginia cognitive scientist Per Sederberg has a fun experiment you can try at home. Take out your smartphone and, using a voice assistant such as the one for Google's search engine, say the word "octopus" as ...
Jul 20, 2022
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