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Stretchable Batteries Make Flexible Electronics More So

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Gatorade, for example, now markets a skin patch called the Gx Sweat Patch , which helps tracks personal hydration. In comparison with conventional lithium-ion batteries, stretchable zinc-ion batteries have a lower energy density, but they can drive most power consumption modules,” including sensors, transistors and displays, Zhu said.

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960. A search of the MIT Museum’s database came up empty (no known example of the hearing glove exists), but I did find the entry on the Boston Arm.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. So actually, his reaction was quite scared.

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AI and Robots Are a Minefield of Cognitive Biases

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We judge robots’ or AI’s tasks in comparison to humans. I believe many were impressed to see the Mini Cheetah , developed in my MIT Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory, perform a backflip. Very likely, such judgement about this person would not be wrong. A person who can spread jam on bread with a spoon can do the same using a fork.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Networks that link personal computers in offices. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” and Toronto, Ont., Laser printers.

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