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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. CHI 2023 ] This video captures a series of experiments carried out at West Virginia University on how to rescue a stuck planetary rover with another rover.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Amplistat , CGS Laboratories’ Increductor , Westinghouse’s Cypak (cybernetic package), and Librascope ’s Unidec (universal decision element). ATX standard for personal computers required a carefully regulated 3.3-volt

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. 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.

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A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom

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Quantum technology relies on quantum effects that can arise because the universe can become a fuzzy place at its very smallest levels. MIT The nano-diamonds and the other materials used in the test are cheap. We hope to get promising results very soon," says researcher Changhao Li , a quantum engineer at MIT.

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