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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

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Inspired by the hardiness of bumblebees, MIT researchers have developed repair techniques that enable a bug-sized aerial robot to sustain severe damage to the actuators, or artificial muscles, that power its wings—but to still fly effectively. [ MIT ] This robot gripper is called DragonClaw, and do you really need to know anything else?

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From EE to VC: Eileen Tanghal's Journey

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Eileen Tanghal Employer: Black Opal Ventures, New York City Title: Cofounder Education: MIT, London Business School “We want to improve health care accessibility and affordability,” Tanghal says. “To Tanghal then decided to pursue an MBA from the London Business School. “I One of Amadeus’s cofounders was Hermann Hauser.

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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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MIT ] Half a century since the concept of a cyborg was introduced, digital cyborgs, enabled by the spread of wearable robotics, are the focus of much research in recent times. Can they help the average person beat a high jumper? We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. Apollo Guidance Computer were built with core transistor logic, but in 1962 the designers at MIT made a risky switch to integrated circuits. ATX standard for personal computers required a carefully regulated 3.3-volt Early prototypes of NASA’s. In the mid-1990s, the.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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In 1967, MIT professor. The field of AI began at a 1956 workshop [top] attended by, from left, Oliver Selfridge, Nathaniel Rochester, Ray Solomonoff, Marvin Minsky, an unidentified person, workshop organizer John McCarthy, and Claude Shannon. The MIT Museum. Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

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A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom

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This means they can get placed much closer to a person's head, resulting in a signal at least two times better and theoretically up to five times better, for magnetic images with millimeter accuracy and millisecond resolution of surface areas of the brain, says Matthew Brookes , chairman of Cerca and a researcher at the University of Nottingham.

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