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Feb 5 | News
Faster and more dexterous than its predecessor, Robonaut2, or R2, is being designed by engineers for use both in automotives plants and space travel. A combination of control, sensor, and vision advances are allowing R2 to perform complex tasks using its hands.
Feb 2 | News
NIST is looking for university teams to automate and improve on one of the common warehouse tasks: pallet-stacking. Using a cheap computer gaming engine, participants will have to develop computer code to deal with a complexity of modern warehousing called mixed palletizing, which is efficient for transporting good, but is tough to automate.
Jan 14 | News
Engineering companies are increasingly leveraging the power of 3D and finite-element modeling. Terrafugia, an aeronautical startup by a group of MIT aeronautical engineers and business grads, recently partnered with design software maker Dassault Systemes to help refine the Transition Roadable Aircraft, an airplane that takes advantage of new FAA rules.
11/26/2009 | News
Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore and predict results of many different possible military and policy actions, say computer science researchers at the Univ. of Maryland.
8/18/2009 | RDBlog
In the August 2009 issue of R&D Magazine, I wrote about some of the trends that are affecting the development strategies of developers of scientific software.
8/17/2009 | Featured Articles
Modeling and simulation are a necessity for nearly all scientists. Software vendors are on the hot seat in making their products measure up to demand.
7/28/2009 | New To Market
To provide organizations with a foundation of trusted information for all their key business processes and decisions, SAP announced enhancements to SAP BusinessObjects Data Services and SAP BusinessObjects Data Federator software, part of SAP BusinessObjects information management (IM) solutions.
7/17/2009 | News
Imagine watching your favorite TV show and talking about it with one friend on the phone, while at the same time trading messages with others on Twitter and email. Sound like an impossible juggling act? A team of faculty from the Georgia Institute of Technology has formed a historic partnership with the Korean government, industry, and universities to develop a single platform where these and even more multimedia functions can take place, even anticipating what show you might like to watch or what music you might want to listen to.
6/29/2009 | News
Yale Univ. researchers have created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, which takes them a step closer toward building a quantum computer. They also used the two-qubit superconducting chip to successfully run elementary algorithms, such as simple search, demonstrating quantum information processing with a solid-state devices for the first time.
6/24/2009 | News
Processing large amounts of imaging data requires repetitive arithmetic horsepower, literally number crunching. Researchers are increasingly looking at graphics processing units—typically found in video game consoles—and tailored code libraries to help them process data collected by radar and sensors up 350 times faster than with traditional central processing units.