Last week Magnus Carlsen, the world chess champion, directly accused Hans Niemann, a U.S. grandmaster, of cheating during their game at the Sinquefield Cup, in St. Louis, Mo. He thus made plain an accusation he had been hinting at for weeks. Carlsen has so far provided no evidence to back up his charge, nor has […]
Looking at the trajectory of robotics over many decades, what we can see is a clear bifurcation in the field. On one side has been a significant push for application-specific robotics—ones that are designed to do just one function extremely well. This can be seen in many applications, including manufacturing, military, and industrial. Most of […]
The Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) is well known in bipedal robotics circles for teaching very complex humanoid robots to walk. Since 2015, IHMC has been home to a Boston Dynamics Atlas (the DRC version) as well as a NASA Valkyrie, and significant progress has been made on advancing these platforms toward […]
High-fidelity simulations in science and engineering are widely used in industrial, seismic, weather/climate, and life sciences applications. However, traditional simulations remain computationally expensive and impractical for real time applications. They are discretization dependent, meaning they do not easily assimilate either measured or synthetic data from various sources. Due to rapid developments in AI for science […]
NASA gives boost to “hybrid” circulators, launching mmWave systems higher than ever before When it comes to mmWave systems, science can only progress as far as compatible hardware will allow. This portion of the electromagnetic spectrum will unlock enormous potential for design engineers with the promise of vastly superior data speeds, capacity and quality, all […]
Thermoelectric technology developer DTP Thermoelectrics has been awarded a patent that opens the door for solid-state deep cooling thermal management. The patent is based on theoretical and analytical models that have been validated through the fabrication and characterisation of thermoelectric devices that use Distributed Transport Properties (DTP) thermoelectric materials. Sample tests, using standard protocols, demonstrated […]
Micron, the largest U.S. memory chipmaker, plans to invest up to $100 billion over about 20 years to build a chip facility near the city of Clay, N.Y., the company told the press yesterday. The first-phase investment of $20 billion is planned by around 2030. The announcement follows the company’s $40 billion fab project in […]
This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Lake Mead is America’s largest reservoir, supplying water for 25 million people across the southwest. It’s also drying up — a kind of poster child for the ongoing drought in the West. But upstream, a much larger but lesser known source of stored water is also […]
When Hurricane Ian pummeled Florida last week, it left a stunning trail of physical devastation in its wake. Entire neighborhoods vanished beneath water, cities were shredded by 150-mile-per-hour winds, and thousands of people lost their homes overnight. Though the storm has since dissipated, it will bring even more turmoil to the Sunshine State in the […]
A model of Kyivs Saint Sophia Cathedral in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag, made using the iCLIP method for 3D printing, which allows for the use of multiple materials in a single object. Photo: William Pan. Advances in 3D printing have made it easier for designers and engineers to customize projects, create […]