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How a One-Man Team from California Won NASA's Space Robotics Challenge
By mastering a Mars robot simulator, an engineer and stay-at-home dad took home the $125,000 top prize
Nuclear to Coal to Hydrogen: Sheldon Station Blazes a Trail
In a corner of Nebraska, a power plant continues a 60-year history of innovation as it aims to burn hydrogen for electric power generation
2D Material Could Make Pseudocapacitors Charge in Milliseconds
MXene supercapacitors could charge as fast rival supercapacitor technology but with as much as 10 times the storage capacity
Roomba Inventor Joe Jones: Why I Think Home Robots Will Become Invisible
Joe Jones, the inventor of the Roomba, argues that home robots will follow computers into the shadows
Danish Electric Bike-Sharing Dodges Failure
Copenhagen's public electric bicycles are great to ride, but costly enough to nearly sink the system
DARPA Wants Brain Implants That Record From 1 Million Neurons
In DARPA's new brain implant program, teams race to build functional prosthetics within four years
Automotive FMCW Radar System Design Using 3D Framework for Scenario Modeling
Preventing human casualties caused by car collisions is a high priority. Engineers are using the SystemVue Scenario Framework Solution for automotive frequency modulated continuous waveform (FMCW) radar system simulation to increase design fidelity and save cost during design and test.
In FutureLearn's MOOCs, Conversation Powers Learning at Massive Scale
Personalized learning has to get social. Students learn better through conversation
Underwater Robots Learn a New Language, JANUS
The new JANUS acoustic signal will connect aquatic robots and sensors into an “Internet of Underwater Things”
Building a Battery-Free Cellphone
A prototype from the University of Washington leverages a backscattered radiofrequency wave to transmit analog signals
Video Friday: DARPA's LUKE Arm, Human Support Robot, and Starting a Robotics Company
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
This Circuit Board Will Self-Destruct in 5, 4, 3…
Nanowire circuit boards that dissolve in cold water have some truly sci-fi applications
Tool Reveals Mechanism Behind High-Temperature Superconductivity
The atomic vibrations in a material and its electrons are much closely bound than previously thought
Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot, and What's So Hard About Consumer Robotics
The inventor of the Roomba tells us about his new solar-powered, weed-destroying robot
Low Current / Ultra-High Resistance Measurement Fundamentals
Attend this webcast to learn the measurement techniques, tricks and tools necessary to measure low currents and high resistances with high measurement confidence and repeatability.
What Happens When Carpooling Laws Suddenly Change? Chaos!
A huge jump in traffic congestion in Jakarta shows how valuable carpooling had been—before the government ended it
3D Electronic Nose Demostrates Advantages of Carbon Nanotubes
A 3D stack of silicon logic, resistive RAM, nanotube circuits, and sensors uses new architecture and devices to save energy
How Bots Win Friends and Influence People
Social and computer scientists parse online bot discourse
EU Developing Robot Badgers for Underground Excavation
Using robots to dig holes for infrastructure installation could put an end to road work
Volvo Says Goodbye To Gasoline
It's the first major carmaker to switch to electric drive, starting in model year 2019
Nondestructive Microscopy Technique Offers a Path Toward In-Silicon Quantum Computers
For first time, scientists can peer deep into silicon to image atoms far from the surface without damaging the sample
Under the Hood of Luminar's Long-Reach Lidar
Shifting to a longer wavelength that's safer for the eye lets Luminar raise its lidar power enough to stretch its range beyond 200 meters. Other innovations could cut system costs.
Autonomous Vehicles vs. Kangaroos: the Long Furry Tail of Unlikely Events
Self-driving cars in Australia are preparing to handle kangaroos, but what about autonomous cars everywhere else?
Anki Makes Programming Easy with Drag and Drop Coding
With an easy-to-use interface based on Scratch, you can now command Anki's Cozmo to do complex tasks without any programming experience
The Corporate Blockchain
It looks a lot different than its decentralized predecessors. Can it last?
‘NotPetya’: Latest Ransomware is a Warning Note From the Future
This week’s Ukrainian malware attack cribbed from last month’s ‘WannaCry’ ransomware outbreak—but foreshadows worse to come
Shaping Smarter Cities
Mouser and Grant Imahara team up with the creative minds at WIRED Brand Lab to take a look at the modern city
Chip Hall of Fame: Sun Microsystems SPARC Processor
Using an unproven new architecture, this processor put Sun Microsystems on the map
Chip Hall of Fame: Intersil ICL8038 Waveform Generator
Intersil’s somewhat cranky chip brought complex sound generation to consumer electronics
Chip Hall of Fame: Texas Instruments TMC0281 Speech Synthesizer
The world’s first speech synthesizer on chip—and accidental supporting star of E.T.
Chip Hall of Fame: STMicroelectronics STA2056 GPS Receiver
Inexpensive and small, this GPS receiver turbocharged the market for integrated navigation in mobile devices
Chip Hall of Fame: Toshiba NAND Flash Memory
Once, all bulk data storage was magnetic. Then along came flash
Chip Hall of Fame: Transmeta Corp. Crusoe Processor
Ahead of its time, this chip heralded the mobile era when energy use, not processing power, would become the most important spec
Chip Hall of Fame: Acorn Computers ARM1 Processor
Reading this on a smartphone? Then you’re using a direct descendant of this processor right now
Chip Hall of Fame: Texas Instruments TMS32010 Digital Signal Processor
This chip put digital signal processors—specialists in handling the messy world outside the computer—on the map
Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 8088 Microprocessor
The “castrated” processor that birthed the IBM PC
Chip Hall of Fame: Xilinx XC2064 FPGA
Hardware that can transform itself on command has proven incredibly useful
Chip Hall of Fame: Texas Instruments Digital Micromirror Device
An Oscar-winning invention brought digital video to movie theaters
Chip Hall of Fame: Tripath Technology TA2020 Audio Amplifier
This solid-state, high-power amp brought big sound to inexpensive devices
Chip Hall of Fame: Kodak KAF-1300 Image Sensor
The chip that brought digital photography outside the lab
Chip Hall of Fame: IBM Deep Blue 2 Chess Chip
Deep Blue’s logic chip powered the first major victory of an AI over a human
Chip Hall of Fame: Signetics NE555
A humble timer chip that became the Swiss Army knife of countless circuits
Chip Hall of Fame: Western Digital WD1402A UART
Freeing processors from doing the grunt work of communications accelerated the connected world
Video Friday: Crashen Hoppers, Gimball Games, and a Fake Moon Landing
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
The Three Factors That Doomed Kemper County IGCC
Clean coal technology suffered a setback when efforts to start up the gasification portion of an IGCC plant in Mississippi were halted
Modeling of Complex Ultrasonic Motors for Controller Design
The phenomena created in which ultrasonic waves with high frequencies are produced are difficult to capture in a model. This whitepaper discusses how Maple’s advanced calculation capabilities supported this process
A $2 Million Contest Seeks a Real-World Pied Piper to Solve Big Internet Challenges
As fictional geniuses in HBO's "Silicon Valley" seek to reinvent the Internet, Mozilla and the NSF offer $2 million in prizes to decentralize it in the real world
An Early Door to Cyberspace: The Computer Memory Terminal
Reading listings on the bulletin-board system was free, but posting cost a quarter
Carbon Nanotubes Reduce Transistor Footprint to Forty Nanometers
Nanotubes offer a path towards meeting an ITRS benchmark a decade from now
Magnetic Eye Implant Stops Dancing Eyes Syndrome
British researchers cure a man's rare eye disorder by implanting magnets beneath his eyes
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