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2 <?xml-stylesheet href="/assets/static/xsl/rss.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><rss… |
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4 <title>IEEE Spectrum Recent Content full text</title> |
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5 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org</link> |
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6 <description>IEEE Spectrum Recent Content headlines</description> |
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7 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2020 20:25:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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8 <atom:link href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/rss/fulltext" type="appli… |
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9 <item> |
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10 <title>Video Friday: Attack of the Hexapod Robots</title> |
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11 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwa… |
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12 <description>Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos</descri… |
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13 <category>robotics</category> |
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14 <category>robotics/robotics-hardware</category> |
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15 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2020 20:25:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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16 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwa… |
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17 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p> |
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18 <p>Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, col… |
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19 <h5><a href="http://www.iros2020.org/">IROS 2020</a> – October 25… |
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20 <h5><a href="https://roscon.ros.org/world/2020/">ROS World 2020</a> –&… |
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21 <h5><a href="https://cybathlon.ethz.ch/en/">CYBATHLON 2020</a> – … |
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22 <h5><a href="https://sites.psu.edu/icsr2020/">ICSR 2020</a> – Nov… |
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23 <p><a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Robot%20video%20suggestion… |
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24 <hr> |
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25 <!--nextpage--> |
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26 <p>Happy Halloween from HEBI Robotics!</p> |
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27 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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28 <p><em>Thanks Hardik!</em></p> |
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29 <p>[ <a href="https://www.hebirobotics.com/">HEBI Robotics</a> ]</p> |
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30 <hr> |
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31 <p>Happy Halloween from Berkshire Grey!</p> |
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32 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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33 <p>[ <a href="https://www.berkshiregrey.com/">Berkshire Grey</a> ]</p> |
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34 <hr> |
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35 <blockquote> |
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36 <p><em>These are some preliminary results of our lab’s new work on us… |
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37 </blockquote> |
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38 <p></p> |
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39 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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40 <p></p> |
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41 <p>[ <a href="https://mime.oregonstate.edu/research/drl/">OSU DRL</a> ]<… |
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42 <p></p> |
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43 <hr> |
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44 <p></p> |
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45 <blockquote> |
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46 <p><em>The northern goshawk is a fast, powerful raptor that flies effor… |
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47 </blockquote> |
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48 <p></p> |
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49 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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50 <p></p> |
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51 <blockquote> |
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52 <p><em>The engineers already designed a bird-inspired drone with morphi… |
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53 </blockquote> |
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54 <p>[ <a href="https://actu.epfl.ch/news/raptor-inspired-drone-with-morph… |
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55 <hr> |
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56 <p>Oopsie.</p> |
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57 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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58 <p>[ <a href="https://roborace.com/">Roborace</a> ]</p> |
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59 <hr> |
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60 <p></p> |
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61 <p>We’ve covered MIT’s Roboats in the past, but now <a href="/cars-t… |
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62 <p></p> |
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63 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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64 <p></p> |
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65 <blockquote> |
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66 <p><em>Self-driving boats have been able to transport small items for y… |
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67 </blockquote> |
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68 <p>[ <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2020/autonomous-boats-could-be-your-n… |
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69 <p></p> |
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70 <hr> |
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71 <p></p> |
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72 <blockquote> |
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73 <p><em>With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and… |
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74 </blockquote> |
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75 <p></p> |
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76 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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77 <p></p> |
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78 <p>[ <a href="https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/10/26/positive-reinforcement-for-… |
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79 <p></p> |
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80 <hr> |
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81 <p></p> |
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82 <blockquote> |
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83 <p><em>Exyn, a pioneer in autonomous aerial robot systems for complex, … |
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84 </blockquote> |
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85 <p></p> |
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86 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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87 <p></p> |
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88 <p>Yes, this is obviously a publicity stunt, and Kody is only flying the… |
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89 <p>[ <a href="https://www.exyn.com/news/kody-the-dog-selected-as-first-a… |
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90 <p></p> |
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91 <hr> |
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92 <p></p> |
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93 <blockquote> |
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94 <p><em>In this video object instance segmentation and shape completion … |
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95 </blockquote> |
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96 <p></p> |
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97 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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98 <p></p> |
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99 <p>[ <a href="https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/mgualti/2021-Gualtieri-PickPl… |
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100 <p><em>Thanks Marcus!</em></p> |
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101 <p></p> |
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102 <hr> |
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103 <p></p> |
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104 <p>U can’t touch this!</p> |
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105 <p></p> |
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106 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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107 <p></p> |
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108 <p>[ <a href="http://ishikawa-vision.org/">University of Tokyo</a> ]</p> |
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109 <p></p> |
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110 <hr> |
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111 <p></p> |
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112 <blockquote> |
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113 <p><em>We introduce a way to enable more natural interaction between hu… |
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114 </blockquote> |
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115 <p></p> |
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116 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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117 <p></p> |
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118 <p>[ <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/enabling-in… |
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119 <p></p> |
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120 <hr> |
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121 <p></p> |
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122 <p>Some very high jumps from the skinniest quadruped ever.</p> |
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123 <p></p> |
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124 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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125 <p></p> |
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126 <p>[ <a href="https://open-dynamic-robot-initiative.github.io/">ODRI</a>… |
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127 <p></p> |
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128 <hr> |
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129 <p></p> |
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130 <blockquote> |
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131 <p><em>In this video we present recent efforts to make our humanoid rob… |
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132 </blockquote> |
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133 <p></p> |
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134 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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135 <p></p> |
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136 <p>[ <a href="https://www.mw.tum.de/en/am/research/current-projects/robo… |
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137 <p></p> |
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138 <hr> |
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139 <p></p> |
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140 <p>Classic bike moves from Dr. Guero.</p> |
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141 <p></p> |
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142 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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143 <p></p> |
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144 <p>[ <a href="http://ai2001.ifdef.jp/">Dr. Guero</a> ]</p> |
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145 <p></p> |
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146 <hr> |
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147 <p></p> |
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148 <p>For a robotics company, iRobot is OLD.</p> |
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149 <p></p> |
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150 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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151 <p></p> |
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152 <p>[ <a href="https://www.irobot.com/">iRobot</a> ]</p> |
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153 <p></p> |
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154 <hr> |
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155 <p></p> |
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156 <blockquote> |
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157 <p><em>The Canadian Space Agency presents Juno, a preliminary version o… |
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158 </blockquote> |
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159 <p></p> |
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160 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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161 <p></p> |
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162 <p>[ <a href="https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/rovers/mission-simulations/l… |
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163 <p></p> |
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164 <hr> |
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165 <p></p> |
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166 <blockquote> |
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167 <p><em>How exactly does the <a href="https://robots.ieee.org/robots/way… |
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168 </blockquote> |
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169 <p></p> |
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170 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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171 <p></p> |
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172 <p>Now do kangaroos.</p> |
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173 <p>[ <a href="https://waymo.com/">Waymo</a> ]</p> |
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174 <p></p> |
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175 <hr> |
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176 <p></p> |
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177 <p><a href="https://robots.ieee.org/robots/jibo/?utm_source=spectrum">Ji… |
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178 <p></p> |
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179 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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180 <p></p> |
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181 <blockquote> |
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182 <p><em>Children’s creativity plummets as they enter elementary school… |
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183 </blockquote> |
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184 <p>[ <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3383668.3419895">Paper</a> ]</p> |
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185 <p></p> |
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186 <hr> |
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187 <p></p> |
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188 <p>It’s nice when convenience stores are convenient even for the folks… |
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189 <p></p> |
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190 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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191 <p></p> |
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192 <p>Who’s moving the crates around, though?</p> |
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193 <p>[ <a href="https://tx-inc.com/en/home/">Telexistence</a> ]</p> |
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194 <p></p> |
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195 <hr> |
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196 <p></p> |
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197 <blockquote> |
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198 <p><em>Hi, fans ! Join the ROS World 2020, opening November 12th , and … |
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199 </blockquote> |
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200 <p></p> |
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201 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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202 <p></p> |
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203 <p>[ <a href="https://roscon.ros.org/world/2020/">ROS World 2020</a> ]</… |
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204 <p></p> |
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205 <hr> |
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206 <p></p> |
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207 <blockquote> |
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208 <p><em>ML/RL methods are often viewed as a magical black box, and while… |
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209 </blockquote> |
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210 <p></p> |
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211 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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212 <p></p> |
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213 <p>[ <a href="https://www.agilityrobotics.com/">Agility Robotics</a> ]</… |
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214 <p></p> |
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215 <hr> |
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216 <p></p> |
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217 <p>Here’s an ICRA Legged Robots workshop talk from Marco Hutter at ETH… |
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218 <p></p> |
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219 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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220 <p></p> |
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221 <blockquote> |
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222 <p><em>Recent advances in legged robots and their locomotion skills has… |
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223 </blockquote> |
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224 <p>[ <a href="https://rsl.ethz.ch/">RSL</a> ]</p> |
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225 <p></p> |
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226 <hr> |
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227 <p></p>]]></content:encoded> |
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228 <dc:creator>Evan Ackerman</dc:creator> |
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229 <dc:creator>Erico Guizzo</dc:creator> |
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230 <dc:creator>Fan Shi</dc:creator> |
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231 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMjAyOQ.j… |
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232 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMjAyOQ.jpe… |
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233 </item> |
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234 <item> |
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235 <title>This Startup Spots Stress in Real-Time to Help Prevent Depr… |
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236 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-member-news/thi… |
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237 <description>Philia Labs’ wearable measures physiological indica… |
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238 <category>the-institute</category> |
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239 <category>the-institute/ieee-member-news</category> |
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240 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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241 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-member-news/thi… |
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259 </style> |
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260 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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261 <img alt="Illustration of a smart watch with emojis coming out of it" s… |
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262 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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263 Illustration: iStockphoto/IEEE Spectrum |
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264 </figcaption> |
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265 </figure> |
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266 <p><span class="tiopener">THE INSTITUTE </span>By any measurement, 2020 … |
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267 <p>When a person is stressed enough, the <a href="https://www.livescienc… |
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268 <p>The first step in controlling stress is to know its symptoms, but bec… |
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269 <p>What if there was a way to measure in real time when a person was bec… |
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270 <p>The product is aimed at health care providers and mental health profe… |
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271 <p>“We are quantifying stress in the body in real time,” says Dilpre… |
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272 <p></p> |
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273 <h3 class="tisubhead">STRESS INDICATORS</h3> |
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274 <p>To confirm whether someone suffers from stress, Buxi says, doctors ty… |
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275 <p>Some of today’s fitness wearables claim to measure stress. They use… |
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276 <p>In contrast, he says, Philia aims to measure physiological data that … |
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277 <p>“<em>Galvanic skin response</em> refers to the electrical conductiv… |
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278 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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279 <img alt="Philia Labs graphic showing acute stress" src="/image/MzcxMTE… |
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280 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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281 Image: Philia Labs |
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282 </figcaption> |
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283 <figcaption> |
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284 Data on acute stress over a 24-hour time period collected with Philia… |
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285 </figcaption> |
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286 </figure> |
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287 <p>Philia will initially pilot its technology on patients undergoing dep… |
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288 <p>For patients who previously have had depression, early intervention c… |
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289 <p>“According to our conversations with psychiatrists,” he says, “… |
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290 <p>He says the likelihood that a person who has recovered from depressio… |
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291 <p>“The platform will enable the medical provider to make better decis… |
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292 <p>Philia has several partners including medical institutions and resear… |
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293 <figure class="rt med" role="img"> |
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294 <img alt="Verisense wearable" src="/image/MzcxMTIwNA.jpeg"> |
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295 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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296 Photo: Verisense |
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297 </figcaption> |
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298 <figcaption> |
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299 Philia Labs is using the Verisense IMU sensor to track patients’ sy… |
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300 </figcaption> |
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301 </figure> |
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302 <p>The startup has a proof-of-concept prototype for the wearable, which … |
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303 <p>The company will be seeking regulatory approval for the platform afte… |
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304 <h3 class="tisubhead">INSPIRATION</h3> |
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305 <p>A biomedical engineer, Buxi worked from 2008 to 2012 at the <a href="… |
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306 <p><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37601391600">Several of h… |
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307 <p>Buxi got to thinking whether he might apply his Ph.D. work to the pro… |
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308 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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309 <img alt="Left: Dilpreet Buxi; Right: Alexander Senior" src="/image/Mzc… |
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310 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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311 Photos: Philia Labs |
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312 </figcaption> |
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313 <figcaption> |
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314 Dilpreet Buxi (left) and Alexander Senior, co-founders of Philia Labs… |
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315 </figcaption> |
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316 </figure> |
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317 <p>He began working on the idea in 2017 as a side project, and in 2018 h… |
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318 <p>The business has largely been funded by a venture capitalist and is c… |
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319 <p></p> |
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320 <h3 class="tisubhead">LEARNING TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR</h3> |
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321 <p>Buxi says his biggest challenge was transitioning from being an engin… |
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322 <p>“You need to think in terms of what is the problem you’re solving… |
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323 <p>“That took a lot of learning,” he says. “In fact, even today, I… |
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324 <p>He says he got help with how to run a startup from IEEE’s <a href="… |
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325 <p>In <a href="https://entrepreneurship.ieee.org/2020_06_12_testimonial-… |
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326 <p>“The program shaped our thinking a bit,” he says, “to make our … |
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327 <dc:creator>Kathy Pretz</dc:creator> |
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328 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMTE1MA.j… |
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329 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMTE1MA.jpe… |
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330 </item> |
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331 <item> |
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332 <title>When X-Rays Were All the Rage, a Trip to the Shoe Store Was… |
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333 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/when-… |
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334 <description>The shoe-fitting fluoroscope was unnecessary and haza… |
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335 <category>tech-history</category> |
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336 <category>tech-history/heroic-failures</category> |
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337 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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338 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/when-… |
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339 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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340 <img alt="Photo of shoe fluoroscope." src="/image/MzcwNzM3OQ.jpeg"> |
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341 <div class="ai"> |
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342 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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343 Photo: ORAU |
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344 </figcaption> |
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345 </div> |
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346 </figure> |
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347 <p>How do those shoes fit? Too tight in the toes? Too wide in the heel? … |
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348 <p>When the German engineer and physicist <a href="https://ethw.org/Wilh… |
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349 <figure class="rt med" role="img"> |
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350 <img alt="Photo of a shoe fluoroscope." src="/image/MzcwNzM5OQ.jpeg"> |
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351 <div class="ai"> |
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352 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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353 Photo: Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
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354 </figcaption> |
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355 <figcaption> |
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356 From the 1920s through the 1950s, thousands of shoe stores in North … |
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357 </figcaption> |
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358 </div> |
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359 </figure> |
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360 <p>Röntgen published his findings on 28 December 1895, and within a mon… |
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361 <p>Experimenters quickly realized that X-rays could produce still images… |
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362 <p>Viewing a moving image was simpler: You just looked directly at the f… |
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363 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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364 <img alt="img" src="/image/MzcwNzM5OA.jpeg"> |
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365 <div class="ai"> |
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366 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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367 Photo: SPL/Science Source |
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368 </figcaption> |
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369 <figcaption> |
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370 <p>A popular 1896 textbook featured a radiograph of a woman’s foot … |
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371 </figcaption> |
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372 </div> |
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373 </figure> |
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374 <p>Less than a year after Röntgen’s discovery, William Morton, a medi… |
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375 <h2><strong>From early on, feet in shoes were a popular X-ray subject</s… |
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376 <p>A push from the military during World War I helped establish the fluo… |
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377 <p>Jacob J. Lowe, a doctor in Boston, used fluoroscopy to examine the fe… |
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378 <p>Before long, two companies emerged as the leading producers of shoe-f… |
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379 <p>The machines were heralded as providing a more “scientific” metho… |
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380 <h2><strong>Radiation risks from shoe-fitting fluoroscopes were largely … |
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381 <p>Although the fluoroscope appeared to bring scientific rigor to the sh… |
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382 <p>The amount of radiation exposure depended on several things, includin… |
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383 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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384 <img alt="Certificates issued to customers highlighted the shoe-fitting… |
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385 <div class="ai"> |
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386 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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387 Photo: Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
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388 </figcaption> |
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389 <figcaption> |
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390 Certificates issued to customers highlighted the shoe-fitting fluoro… |
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391 </figcaption> |
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392 </div> |
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393 </figure> |
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394 <p>But some experts had warned about the dangers of X-rays early on. Edi… |
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395 <p>Dally, a technician in Edison’s lab, ran numerous tests with the fl… |
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396 <p>Clarence Dally may have been the first American to die of radiation s… |
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397 <p>For those concerned about radiation exposure, the shoe-fitting fluoro… |
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398 <p>Charles H. Baber, a merchant on Regent Street who claimed to be the f… |
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399 <p>And that, seemingly, was that. The shoe-fitting fluoroscope flourishe… |
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400 <p>After World War II and the dropping of the atomic bombs, though, Amer… |
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401 <p>This video by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration nicely captures h… |
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402 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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403 <p></p> |
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404 <p>The shoe-fitting fluoroscope is a curious technology. It seemed scien… |
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405 <p></p> |
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406 <p><em>An abridged version of this article appears in the November 2020 … |
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407 <p><em>Part of a </em><a href="/tag/Past+Forward"><em>continuing series<… |
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408 <h2></h2> |
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409 <h2>About the Author</h2> |
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410 <p><a href="https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/hi… |
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411 <p></p> |
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412 <p></p> |
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413 <p></p>]]></content:encoded> |
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414 <dc:creator>Allison Marsh</dc:creator> |
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415 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNzM3OQ.j… |
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416 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNzM3OQ.jpe… |
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417 </item> |
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418 <item> |
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419 <title>Metal Spheres Swarm Together to Create Freeform Modular Rob… |
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420 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwa… |
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421 <description>FreeBOTs use magnets and internal motors to roll arou… |
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422 <category>robotics</category> |
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423 <category>robotics/robotics-hardware</category> |
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424 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2020 02:16:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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425 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwa… |
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426 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Swarms of modular, self-reconfigurabl… |
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427 <p>This week at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligen… |
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428 <!--nextpage--> |
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429 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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430 <p>Typically, modular robots are relatively complicated and finicky thin… |
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431 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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432 <img alt="Freebot robot" src="/image/MzcxMTU3Nw.jpeg"> |
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433 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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434 Photo: Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen |
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435 </figcaption> |
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436 <figcaption> |
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437 The internal mechanism that FreeBOT uses to move includes a motor and… |
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438 </figcaption> |
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439 </figure> |
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440 <p>FreeBOT is a sort of hybrid between these two robotic concepts. Each … |
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441 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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442 <img alt="Freebot robots connecting and disconnecting" src="/image/Mzcx… |
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443 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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444 Photo: Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen |
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445 </figcaption> |
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446 <figcaption> |
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447 <p>How two FreeBOTs connect to one another and separate from each… |
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448 </figcaption> |
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449 </figure> |
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450 <p>Since each robot has a ferromagnetic shell plus an internal permanent… |
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451 <p>There are some constraints to the current generation of FreeBOTs; mos… |
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452 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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453 <p>“FreeBOT: A Freeform Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot with Arbitra… |
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454 <dc:creator>Evan Ackerman</dc:creator> |
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455 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMTU4MA.j… |
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458 <item> |
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459 <title>Are Electronic Media Any Good at Getting Out the Vote?</tit… |
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460 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/education/are-elec… |
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461 <description>An expert on maximizing voter participation says othe… |
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462 <category>at-work</category> |
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463 <category>at-work/education</category> |
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464 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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479 <iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless src="https… |
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480 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>Hi, this is Steven Cherry for Radio Sp… |
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481 <p>For some years and still today, there’s been a quiet but profound s… |
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482 <p>Just last week <em>[this was recorded Oct 5, 2020—Ed.]</em> the att… |
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483 <p>In the endless post-mortem of the 2016 Presidential election, an <a h… |
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484 <p>I confess I saw something of that phenomenon on a recent Saturday. I�… |
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485 <p>In another call, to a man in the Erie area, the conversation turned t… |
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486 <p>When I strung these three moments together over a beer, my partner im… |
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487 <p>Of particular interest, they base their case with real data, based on… |
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488 <p>One of those authors is <a href="https://polisci.columbia.edu/content… |
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489 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>Don, welcome to the podcast.</p> |
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490 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Thank you very much for having me.</p> |
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491 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>Modern campaigns can employ an army of… |
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492 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Yes, the robocalls have an almost perfe… |
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493 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>The two robocallers in Michigan allege… |
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494 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Well, that certainly seems like a clear… |
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495 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>Yeah, it was noticed enough that compl… |
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496 <p>For decades, campaigns have spent a lot of their money on television … |
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497 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Experience on television is relatively … |
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498 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>In contrast to war stories, you and yo… |
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499 <p>Yes, it’s a juggling act for sure. The idea is, if we wanted to stu… |
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500 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>One thing you would expect campaign pr… |
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501 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Yes, we try to not only gauge the effec… |
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502 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>Now that’s just for turnout, not vot… |
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503 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Well, typically what they do is rely on… |
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504 <p>So that could also be done demographically. I mean, there are zip cod… |
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505 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Yes, there are lots of ways of doing th… |
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506 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>You mentioned door-to-door canvassing;… |
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507 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>This is one of the most interesting thi… |
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508 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>So it seems reminiscent of what the so… |
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509 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Some of it is reminiscent of the Hawtho… |
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510 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>So without looking into the details of… |
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511 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Yes, I think so. I mean, putting aside … |
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512 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>In your research you found by contrast… |
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513 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Well, yard signs might have some utilit… |
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514 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>You’re more positive on phone banks,… |
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515 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Yes, I think that phone banking, especi… |
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516 <p>And if you are able to extract a commitment to vote from that person … |
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517 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>Let’s turn to social media, particul… |
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518 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>That’s right. We have a number of ran… |
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519 <p>More effective on Facebook were ads that showed you whether your Face… |
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520 <p>And that seems to be rather effective and indeed is part of a larger … |
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521 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>On this continuum of personal versus i… |
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522 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>I would think so, as long as the commun… |
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523 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>Yes. Although, of course, that person … |
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524 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>I realize I just don’t know very much… |
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525 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>Getting back to more analog activities… |
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526 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>That’s right. I would be very, very o… |
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527 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>The business model for some campaign p… |
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528 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>Yes, I would say that one of the bigges… |
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529 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>Don, as we record, this is less than a… |
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530 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>I think it’s possible. I think it’s… |
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531 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>On a lighter note, an upcoming podcast… |
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532 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>You know, it’s strange that they real… |
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533 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>My girlfriend and I still play <a href… |
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534 <p>Well Don, I think in the US, everyone’s thoughts will be far from t… |
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535 <p><strong>Donald Green </strong>I very much appreciate it. Thanks.</p> |
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536 <p><strong>Steven Cherry </strong>We’ve been speaking with <a href="ht… |
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537 <p>This interview was recorded October 5th, 2020. Our thanks to Mike at … |
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538 <p>Radio Spectrum is brought to you by <em>IEEE Spectrum</em>, the membe… |
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539 <p>For Radio Spectrum, I’m <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Steven C… |
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540 <p><em>Note: Transcripts are created for the convenience of our readers … |
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541 <p><em>We welcome your comments on Twitter (</em><a href="https://twitte… |
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542 <dc:creator>Steven Cherry</dc:creator> |
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543 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMTA3NQ.j… |
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547 <title>Programmable Filament Gives Even Simple 3D Printers Multi-M… |
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548 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gad… |
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549 <description>With a little bit of extra work but no additional har… |
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550 <category>consumer-electronics</category> |
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551 <category>consumer-electronics/gadgets</category> |
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552 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 20:03:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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553 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gad… |
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554 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the additive manufacturing spectru… |
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555 <p>At the <a href="https://uist.acm.org/uist2020/">ACM UIST Conference</… |
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556 <!--nextpage--> |
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557 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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558 <p>There are two steps to this process: filament creation and objec… |
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559 <p>It might seem like using a multi-material filament to create a multi-… |
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560 <p>It won’t surprise you that there’s a lot of computation involved … |
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561 <p>The filament for an object may involve many transitions from one mate… |
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562 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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563 <img alt="Illustration explaining the printing procedure of a programma… |
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564 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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565 Images: Programmable Filament Team |
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566 </figcaption> |
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567 <figcaption> |
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568 Printing procedure of a filament: (a) Printing starts with one c… |
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569 </figcaption> |
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570 </figure> |
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571 <p>The filament itself is printed in a spiral, one type of material at a… |
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572 <p>There is a bit of messiness that shows up in the print when one mater… |
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573 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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574 <img alt="Example prints using the programmable filament system" src="/… |
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575 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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576 Images: Programmable Filament Team |
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577 </figcaption> |
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578 <figcaption> |
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579 Three different software designs allow users to choose various inputs… |
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580 </figcaption> |
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581 </figure> |
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582 <p>The researchers note that their software pipeline and technique work … |
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583 <dc:creator>Evan Ackerman</dc:creator> |
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584 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMTM5NQ.j… |
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587 <item> |
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588 <title>Squabbling Over the Waters of the River Nile</title> |
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589 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/conservation/squabbling… |
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590 <description>Ethiopia has dammed a tributary, crimping the flow in… |
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591 <category>green-tech</category> |
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592 <category>green-tech/conservation</category> |
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593 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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594 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/conservation/squabbling… |
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595 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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596 <img alt="Construction machinery stands in the center of the dam wall a… |
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599 Photo: Zacharias Abubeker/Bloomberg/Getty Images |
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600 </figcaption> |
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601 <figcaption> |
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602 Construction machinery stands in the center of the dam wall at the s… |
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603 </figcaption> |
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604 </div> |
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605 </figure> |
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606 <p><strong><span>The completion of the</span> </strong>Grand Ethiopian R… |
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607 <p>The Blue Nile flows from Ethiopia’s Lake Tana, carrying <a href="ht… |
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608 <p>The <a href="http://gis.nacse.org/tfdd/tfdddocs/92ENG.pdf">Anglo-Egyp… |
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609 <p>Egypt still upholds this allocation, but in 2009 Ethiopia began a de … |
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610 <aside class="inlay xlrg"> |
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611 <h3 class="sb-hed"><span style="display:inline !important">How Very Div… |
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612 <p>Egypt drinks from the River Nile, and the country stands to lose sho… |
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613 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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614 <a class="zoom" href="/image/MzcwODA3Nw.jpeg" rel="lightbox"><img alt=… |
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615 <div class="ai"> |
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616 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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617 Illustration: Francesco Muzi/StoryTK |
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618 </figcaption> |
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619 </div> |
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620 </figure> |
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621 </aside> |
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622 <p>In 1959 Egypt’s population was about 26 million, by 2020 it had nea… |
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623 <p>The challenge is greatly increased by the new Renaissance dam on the … |
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624 <p>Filling the rest of the reservoir in five years would cut the annual … |
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625 <p>What Egypt sees as a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-5… |
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626 <p>Partial solutions are possible, but none is easy or easily affordable… |
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627 <dc:creator>Vaclav Smil</dc:creator> |
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628 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNzk0Mg.j… |
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629 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNzk0Mg.jpe… |
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630 </item> |
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631 <item> |
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632 <title>The 11 Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of</title> |
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633 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/the-11-grea… |
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634 <description>These vacuum devices stood guard during the Cold War,… |
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635 <category>tech-history</category> |
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636 <category>tech-history/space-age</category> |
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637 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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649 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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650 <img alt="From left: Thales multi-beam klystron, Ubitron, Coaxitron" sr… |
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651 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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652 From left, Thales; Robert Phillips; RCA |
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653 </figcaption> |
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654 </figure> |
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655 <p><strong>In an age propped up by</strong> quintillions of solid-state … |
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656 <p></p> |
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657 <p></p> |
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658 <p>And just for good measure, you’ll also find here a few tubes that a… |
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659 <p></p> |
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660 <p>Of course, anytime anyone offers up a list of <em>anything</em>—the… |
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661 <p></p> |
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662 <p>My list isn’t meant to be comprehensive. Here you’ll find no gas-… |
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663 <p></p> |
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664 <p>But even within the parameters I’ve chosen, there are so many amazi… |
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665 <p></p> |
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666 <hr> |
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667 <h2><strong>Medical Magnetron</strong></h2> |
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668 <p></p> |
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669 <div> |
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670 <figure class="rt med" role="img"> |
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671 <img alt="Photo of Medical Mangnetron" src="/image/MzcwOTcyMA.jpeg"> |
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672 <div class="ai"> |
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673 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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674 Photo: Teledyne ev |
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675 </figcaption> |
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676 </div> |
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677 </figure> |
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678 <p><strong>When it comes</strong> to efficiently generating coherent ra… |
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679 <p>The magnetron first rose to glory in World War II, <a href="/tech-hi… |
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680 <p>It is for this last use that the medical magnetron shines. In a line… |
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681 <p>High-power magnetrons continue to be developed to meet the demands o… |
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682 </div> |
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683 <hr> |
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684 <div> |
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685 <h2><strong>Gyrotron</strong></h2> |
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686 </div> |
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687 <div> |
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688 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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689 <img alt="Photo of Gyrotron" src="/image/MzcwOTcyMw.jpeg"> |
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690 <div class="ai"> |
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691 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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692 Photo: Nuclear Fusion/IAEA |
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693 </figcaption> |
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694 </div> |
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695 </figure> |
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696 <p><strong>Conceived in the 1960s </strong>in the Soviet Union, the gyr… |
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697 <p>So how does a megawatt-class gyrotron work? The name provides a clue… |
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698 <p>A tube that produces 1 MW of average power is not going to be small.… |
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699 <p>In addition to heating fusion plasmas, gyrotrons are used in materia… |
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700 <hr> |
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701 </div> |
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702 <div> |
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703 <h2><strong>Mini Traveling-Wave Tube</strong></h2> |
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704 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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705 <img alt="Photo of Mini Traveling-Wave Tube" src="/image/MzcwOTc1Mw.jp… |
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706 <div class="ai"> |
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707 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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708 Photo: L3Harris Electron Devices |
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709 </figcaption> |
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710 </div> |
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711 </figure> |
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712 <p><strong>As its name suggests,</strong> a traveling-wave tube (TWT) a… |
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713 <p>Most TWTs of the 20th century were designed for extremely high power… |
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714 <p>As it turns out, military services have a great need for mini TWTs. … |
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715 <hr> |
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716 </div> |
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717 <div> |
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718 <h2><strong>Accelerator Klystron</strong></h2> |
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719 </div> |
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720 <div> |
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721 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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722 <img alt="Photo of Accelerator Klystron" src="/image/MzcwOTc2NA.jpeg"> |
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723 <div class="ai"> |
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724 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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725 Photo: Archives and History Office/SLAC National Accelerator Labora… |
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726 </figcaption> |
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727 </div> |
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728 </figure> |
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729 <p><strong>The klystron helped</strong> usher in the era of big science… |
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730 <p>Inside a klystron, electrons emitted by a cathode accelerate toward … |
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731 <p>In the 1960s, engineers developed a klystron to serve as the RF sour… |
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732 <p>The <a href="https://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/kly/default2.htm">S… |
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733 <hr> |
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734 </div> |
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735 <div> |
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736 <h2><strong>Ring-Bar Traveling-Wave Tube</strong></h2> |
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737 <figure class="rt med" role="img"> |
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738 <img alt="Photo of Ring-Bar Traveling-Wave Tube" src="/image/MzcxMDQ3N… |
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739 <div class="ai"> |
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740 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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741 Photo: L3Harris Electron Devices |
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742 </figcaption> |
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743 </div> |
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744 </figure> |
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745 <p><strong>One Cold War tube</strong> that is still going strong is the… |
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746 <p>An even higher-frequency version of the ring-bar tube is used in a p… |
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747 <p>The circuit used in this behemoth is known as a ring bar, which cons… |
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748 <hr> |
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749 </div> |
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750 <div> |
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751 <h2><strong>Ubitron</strong></h2> |
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752 <figure class="lt med" role="img"> |
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753 <img alt="Photo of a man and the Ubitron" src="/image/MzcwOTY5Ng.jpeg"… |
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754 <div class="ai"> |
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755 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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756 Photo: Robert Phillips |
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757 </figcaption> |
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758 </div> |
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759 </figure> |
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760 <p><strong>Fifteen years before</strong> the term “free-electron lase… |
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761 <p>The 1957 invention of the ubitron came about by accident. Robert&nbs… |
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762 <p>From 1957 to 1964, Phillips and colleagues built and tested a variet… |
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763 <p>Today’s free-electron lasers employ the same basic principle as th… |
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764 <hr> |
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765 </div> |
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766 <div> |
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767 <h2><strong>Carcinotron</strong></h2> |
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768 <figure class="rt med-lrg" role="img"> |
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769 <img alt="Photo of the Carcinotron" src="/image/MzcwOTY5NA.jpeg"> |
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770 <div class="ai"> |
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771 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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772 Photo: CSF |
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773 </figcaption> |
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774 </div> |
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775 </figure> |
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776 <p><strong>The French tube</strong> called the carcinotron is another f… |
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777 <p>Like the ubitron, the carcinotron grew out of an attempt to resolve … |
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778 <p>For about 20 years, electronic jammers in the United States and Euro… |
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779 <p>Considering the level of power they can handle, carcinotrons are fai… |
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780 <p>And the strange name? <a href="https://vacuumelectronics.org/eds_mem… |
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781 </div> |
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782 <hr> |
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783 <h2><strong><span>Dual-Mode Traveling-Wave Tube </span></strong></h2> |
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784 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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785 <img alt="Photo of Dual-Mode Traveling-Wave Tube" src="/image/MzcwOTY4N… |
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786 <div class="ai"> |
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787 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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788 Photo: Northrop Grumman |
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789 </figcaption> |
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790 </div> |
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791 </figure> |
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792 <p><span><strong>The dual-mode TWT </strong>was an oddball microwave tub… |
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793 <p><span>The tube’s main selling point was that it broadened the uses … |
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794 <p><span>The tube shown here was developed by Raytheon’s Power Tube Di… |
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795 <hr> |
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796 <h2><strong><span>Multi-Beam Klystron </span></strong></h2> |
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797 <figure class="rt med" role="img"> |
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798 <img alt="Photo of Multi-Beam Klystron " src="/image/MzcwOTY1NA.jpeg"> |
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799 <div class="ai"> |
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800 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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801 Photo: Thales |
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802 </figcaption> |
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803 </div> |
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804 </figure> |
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805 <p><span><strong>Power, as many</strong> of us learned as youngsters, eq… |
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806 <p><span>Adding to the challenge, a tube’s efficiency generally falls … |
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807 <p><span>All these caveats apply if you’re talking about a conventiona… |
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808 <p><span>Such a multiple-beam device was studied in the 1960s in the Uni… |
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809 <p><span>A modern example of an MBK is shown above, produced in 2011 by … |
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810 <hr> |
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811 <div> |
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812 <h2><strong>Coaxitron</strong></h2> |
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813 </div> |
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814 <div> |
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815 <figure class="lt med" role="img"> |
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816 <img alt="Photo of a Coaxitron" src="/image/MzcwOTY4Ng.jpeg"> |
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817 <div class="ai"> |
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818 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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819 Photo: RCA |
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820 </figcaption> |
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821 </div> |
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822 </figure> |
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823 <p><strong>All the tubes </strong>I’ve described so far are what spec… |
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824 <p>There were, of course, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/st… |
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825 <p>Triodes and higher-order grid tubes all included a cathode, a curren… |
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826 <p>The coaxitron, developed by RCA beginning in the 1960s, is a unique … |
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827 <p>A 1-MW, 425-MHz coaxitron weighed 130 pounds (59 kg) and stood 24 in… |
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828 <hr> |
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829 <div> |
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830 <h2><strong>Telefunken Audio Tube</strong></h2> |
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831 </div> |
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832 <div> |
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833 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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834 <img alt="Photo of Telefunken Audio Tube" src="/image/MzcwOTY1Mw.jpeg… |
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835 <div class="ai"> |
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836 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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837 Photo: Thump/Soundgas |
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838 </figcaption> |
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839 </div> |
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840 </figure> |
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841 <p><strong>An important conventional</strong> tube with grids resides … |
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842 <p>The VF14 is a pentode, meaning it has five electrodes, including th… |
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843 <p>Nowadays, you can buy a solid-state replacement for the VF14M that … |
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844 <p><em>This article appears in the November 2020 print issue as “The… |
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845 <aside class="inlay xlrg"> |
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846 <h3 class="sb-hed"><span style="display:inline !important">Life of a … |
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847 <figure class="rt med" role="img"> |
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848 <img alt="Photo of Carter M. Armstrong" src="/image/MzcwOTMwMA.jpeg"… |
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849 <div class="ai"> |
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850 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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851 Photo: Michael Martin |
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852 </figcaption> |
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853 </div> |
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854 </figure> |
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855 <p>“If you’d told me I’d spend my career working on vacuum tube… |
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856 <p>So says Carter M. Armstrong, who has in fact spent the last 40-som… |
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857 <p>Throughout, Armstrong says, the work has been intellectually stimu… |
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858 <p><span style="display:inline !important">In this photo, Armstrong, … |
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859 <p>Almost all of the tubes in Armstrong’s article are ones he helpe… |
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860 <p>“I’m a huge Beatles fan, so I was more than happy to include t… |
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861 </aside> |
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862 </div> |
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863 </div>]]></content:encoded> |
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864 <dc:creator>Carter M. Armstrong</dc:creator> |
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865 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMDY3Mw.j… |
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866 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMDY3Mw.jpe… |
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867 </item> |
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868 <item> |
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869 <title>Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine L… |
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870 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/… |
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871 <description>Teaching robots to understand "why" could help them t… |
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872 <category>artificial-intelligence</category> |
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873 <category>artificial-intelligence/machine-learning</category> |
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874 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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875 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/… |
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876 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Causality is very important for th… |
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877 <p>The lack of generalization is a big problem, says <a href="https… |
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878 <p>The <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04296" target="_blank">p… |
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879 <p>In their study, the researchers gave the robots a number of tasks ran… |
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880 <p>“If we continue scaling up training and network architectures beyon… |
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881 <p>A standard neural network, on the other hand, would require insane am… |
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882 <p>CausalWorld’s evaluation protocols, say Ahmed and Träuble, are mor… |
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883 <p>Despite how dazzled we are by AI’s ability to perform certain tasks… |
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884 <p></p>]]></content:encoded> |
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885 <dc:creator>Payal Dhar</dc:creator> |
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886 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMTAyNw.j… |
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887 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMTAyNw.jpe… |
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888 </item> |
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889 <item> |
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890 <title>Dart-Shooting Drone Attacks Trees for Science</title> |
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891 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/dart-sho… |
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892 <description>Sensor-laden darts can collect data in hazardous or i… |
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893 <category>robotics</category> |
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894 <category>robotics/drones</category> |
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895 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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896 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/dart-sho… |
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897 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<link href="/ns/interactive/0118race-to-… |
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898 <div class="mobileHide"> |
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899 <div class="imgWrapper offsetLeft lt sm"> |
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900 <a href="/static/journal-watch"><img alt="Journal Watch report logo, l… |
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901 </div> |
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902 </div> |
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903 <p>We all know how robots are great at going to places where you can’t… |
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904 <p>When it comes to using drones to set up sensor networks, you’ve gen… |
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905 <!--nextpage--> |
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906 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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907 <p>These darts (which the researchers refer to as aerodynamically stabil… |
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908 <p>Indoor tests using magnets showed the system to be quite reliable, bu… |
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909 <p>And if all of that goes well, they’ll consider trying to get each d… |
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910 <p>“Unmanned Aerial Sensor Placement for Cluttered Environments,” by… |
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911 <div class="mobileShow"> |
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912 <h3 class="RptHdBackBarMobile"><span class="BackArrowBlkBkgrd"><</sp… |
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913 </div>]]></content:encoded> |
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914 <dc:creator>Evan Ackerman</dc:creator> |
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915 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMDgzNQ.j… |
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916 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMDgzNQ.jpe… |
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917 </item> |
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918 <item> |
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919 <title>IoT Network Companies Have Cracked Their Chicken-and-Egg Pr… |
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920 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/iot-network-compa… |
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921 <description>Which comes first, the network or the devices? Why no… |
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922 <category>telecom</category> |
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923 <category>telecom/wireless</category> |
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924 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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925 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/iot-network-compa… |
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926 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="rt med" role="img"> |
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927 <img alt="Illustration of a figure looking at 3d pink squares." src="/i… |
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928 <div class="ai"> |
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929 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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930 Illustration: Greg Mably |
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931 </figcaption> |
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932 </div> |
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933 </figure> |
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934 <p><strong>Along with</strong> everything else going on, we may look bac… |
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935 <p>IoT networks have a chicken-and-egg problem. Until device makers see … |
|
936 <p>It certainly didn’t help such network companies as <a href="https:/… |
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937 <p>“Personally, I don’t believe in business models for [low-power WA… |
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938 <p>The Things Network sets up the “stove” and includes the cost of o… |
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939 <p>Senet does something similar, letting customers share their networks.… |
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940 <p>And there’s Amazon, which plans to embed its own version of a low-p… |
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941 <p>After almost a decade of following various low-power IoT networks, I�… |
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942 <p><em>This article appears in the November 2020 print issue as “Netwo… |
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943 <dc:creator>Stacey Higginbotham</dc:creator> |
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944 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwMzk1OA.j… |
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945 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwMzk1OA.jpe… |
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946 </item> |
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947 <item> |
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948 <title>World’s First Ocean Hybrid Platform Converts Tidal Waves … |
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949 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/news-from-around-ieee/the-institut… |
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950 <description>Built by Sinn Power, the technology uses a combinatio… |
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951 <category>the-institute</category> |
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952 <category>the-institute/ieee-member-news</category> |
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953 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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954 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/news-from-around-ieee/the-institut… |
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973 </style> |
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974 <p><span class="tiblogopener">THE INSTITUTE </span>Energy captured from … |
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975 <p>But despite the energy source’s great potential, it remains untappe… |
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976 <p>Engineers have been trying to invent machines to generate electricity… |
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977 <p><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032102… |
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978 <p>Between 1940 and 1950, Yoshio Masuda, a former Japanese naval command… |
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979 <p>Since the 1950s, many inventors have come up with commercial-scale wa… |
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980 <p>The 1970s oil crisis was a turning point for the industry. That’s w… |
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981 <p>Ocean-energy projects currently span the world, with activities in Au… |
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982 <p>Some utilities are committed to the concept, such as Finnish energy c… |
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983 <p>Europe is at the forefront of the industry, with about half the world… |
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984 <p>To learn how engineers and scientists are developing solutions, I spo… |
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985 <h3 class="tisubhead">SINN POWER</h3> |
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986 <p>In August I spoke with Philipp Sinn, founder of <a href="https://www.… |
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987 <p>The floating platform uses a combination of wave, wind, and solar ene… |
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988 <p>The wind, wave, and photovoltaic platform is scalable in capacity and… |
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989 <p>He acknowledges that the maritime environment is challenging. All the… |
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990 <p>To cope with such conditions, the company developed a product family … |
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991 <p>“We see [our company’s] technologies as a movement toward a susta… |
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992 <h3 class="tisubhead">A BRIGHT FUTURE</h3> |
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993 <p>Ocean energy is an essential step in achieving our global climate and… |
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994 <p>The global market for ocean energy is expected to reach 22 milli… |
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995 <p>Development of ocean-energy production—from concept to commercial r… |
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996 <p><em>IEEE Senior Member </em><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/qusi… |
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997 <dc:creator>Qusi Alqarqaz</dc:creator> |
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998 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODI3Mg.j… |
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999 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODI3Mg.jpe… |
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1000 </item> |
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1001 <item> |
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1002 <title>New Stent-like Electrode Allows Humans to Operate Computers… |
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1003 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/ne… |
|
1004 <description>First humans to receive a "stentrode" demonstrate tha… |
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1005 <category>biomedical</category> |
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1006 <category>biomedical/bionics</category> |
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1007 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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1008 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/ne… |
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1009 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two Australian men with neuromus… |
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1010 <p>This is the first time such a device, dubbed a “stentrode,” … |
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1011 <p><span>The feat was <a href="https://jnis.bmj.com/content/early/2020/1… |
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1013 <p><span>Researchers have been experimenting for over 15 years with … |
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1014 <p>The stentrode offers a less intrusive way to get electrodes to the br… |
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1015 <p>The stentrode is connected by a lead down to a device that is surgica… |
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1016 <p>The quality of the signals is sacrificed a little by the electrodes b… |
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1017 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1018 <img alt="Graham Felsted has a stentrode implant" src="/image/MzcxMDM4N… |
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1019 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1020 Photo: Synchron |
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1021 </figcaption> |
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1022 <figcaption> |
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1023 Graham Felsted has a stentrode implant. He is using the BCI to write … |
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1024 </figcaption> |
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1025 </figure> |
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1026 <p>The two participants who received the stentrodes suffer from amyotrop… |
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1027 <p>Operating the system is painstaking. Felstead controls the computer b… |
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1028 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1029 <p>Being able to use a BCI system at home, outside the lab, is a hu… |
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1030 <p>Elon Musk in August <a href="/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/elon-mu… |
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1031 <p>“It’s all hypothetical until we put the device in a human,” say… |
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1032 <p></p> |
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1033 <p></p>]]></content:encoded> |
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1034 <dc:creator>Emily Waltz</dc:creator> |
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1035 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMDM1NA.j… |
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1036 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMDM1NA.jpe… |
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1037 </item> |
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1038 <item> |
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1039 <title>The Tuatara Is The World's Fastest Production Car</title> |
|
1040 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/adv… |
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1041 <description>The key was the lapidary engine, together with a pass… |
|
1042 <category>transportation</category> |
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1043 <category>transportation/advanced-cars</category> |
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1044 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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1045 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/adv… |
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1046 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Jerod Shelby looked to capt… |
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1047 <p></p> |
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1048 <p>Between that subsonic jet’s gyro-stabilized nose camera, two Guinne… |
|
1049 <p>It’s all part of what Shelby dubs “the land-based space race.” … |
|
1050 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1051 <img alt="Jarod Shelby’s 24-employee company has topped the biggest n… |
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1052 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1053 Photo: SSC North America |
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1054 </figcaption> |
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1055 <figcaption> |
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1056 Jerod Shelby’s 24-employee company has topped the biggest name… |
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1057 </figcaption> |
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1058 </figure> |
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1059 <p>The Tuatara represents a decade of development for Shelby, a former g… |
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1060 <p></p> |
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1061 <p></p> |
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1062 <p></p> |
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1063 <p>“What’s crazy to me is how technology advances,” Shelby says. �… |
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1064 <p></p> |
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1065 <p>Valet? If you can afford the Tuatara’s US $1.9-million price, you c… |
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1066 <p></p> |
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1067 <p>The Tuatara’s fast food includes a twin-turbo, 5.9-liter, all-alloy… |
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1068 <p></p> |
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1069 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1070 <img alt="The Tautara’s beating heart is a mid-mounted, twin-turbo V-… |
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1071 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1072 Photo: SSC North America |
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1073 </figcaption> |
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1074 <figcaption> |
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1075 The Tautara’s beating heart is a mid-mounted, twin-turbo V-8 that m… |
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1076 </figcaption> |
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1077 </figure> |
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1078 <p>Tom Nelson, the company’s founder, says the bespoke engine sounds�… |
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1079 <p></p> |
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1080 <p>“It’s like a mechanical symphony to me,” Nelson says. “And at… |
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1081 <p></p> |
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1082 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1083 <img alt="29-year-old British racer Oliver Webb piloted the Tuatara thr… |
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1084 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1085 Photo: SSC North America |
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1086 </figcaption> |
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1087 <figcaption> |
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1088 29-year-old British racer Oliver Webb piloted the Tuatara through tri… |
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1089 </figcaption> |
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1090 </figure> |
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1091 <p>No detail was left to chance for the record run by Oliver Webb, the 2… |
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1092 <p></p> |
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1093 <figure class="rt med" role="img"> |
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1094 <img alt="The bespoke, flat-crank V-8 spins to 8,800-rpm, with titanium… |
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1095 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1096 Photo: Nelson Racing Engines |
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1097 </figcaption> |
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1098 <figcaption> |
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1099 The bespoke, flat-crank V-8 spins to 8,800-rpm, with titanium and Inc… |
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1100 </figcaption> |
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1101 </figure> |
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1102 <p>The engine’s turbine wheels, exhaust valves and 3D-printed exhaust … |
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1103 <p></p> |
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1104 <p>“You can spin this crankshaft to 10,000-rpm, put a wine glass on th… |
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1105 <p></p> |
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1106 <p>The computerized oversight came in handy in a week of “low-speed,�… |
|
1107 <p></p> |
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1108 <p>“We couldn’t figure out what was going on, and we were going to a… |
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1109 <p></p> |
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1110 <p>The team theorized that fuel ignition was lagging because the ignitio… |
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1111 <p></p> |
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1112 <p>“It was like magic, the exhaust temperatures dropped 300 degrees,�… |
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1113 <p></p> |
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1114 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1115 <img alt="The slippery body, by a former Ferrari designer, claims class… |
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1116 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1117 Photo: SSC North America |
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1118 </figcaption> |
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1119 <figcaption> |
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1120 The slippery body, by a former Ferrari designer, claims class-leading… |
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1121 </figcaption> |
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1122 </figure> |
|
1123 <p>All the power in the world won’t help if a hypercar can’t overcom… |
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1124 <p></p> |
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1125 <p>Stability became more critical after dawn on 10 Oct., as a slight but… |
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1126 <p></p> |
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1127 <p>With nearly 200 people on site, including a film crew, Webb grew conc… |
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1128 <p></p> |
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1129 <p>“He said, ‘I’m only going to do one more run; I’m willing to … |
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1130 <p></p> |
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1131 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1132 <img alt="SSC plans to build 100 copies of the record-setting Tuatara, … |
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1133 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1134 Photo: SSC North America |
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1135 </figcaption> |
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1136 <figcaption> |
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1137 SSC plans to build 100 copies of the record-setting Tuatara, priced f… |
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1138 </figcaption> |
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1139 </figure> |
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1140 <p>Webb blasted off, focusing eyes as far into the distance as possible,… |
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1141 <p></p> |
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1142 <p>“Oliver was sitting on the ground when we pulled up, head in hands,… |
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1143 <p></p> |
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1144 <p>“But all of a sudden he looked up, smiled, and said, “I saw a rea… |
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1145 <p></p> |
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1146 <p>Pulling the data, Shelby saw that big, big number: 331.15 mph. Webb s… |
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1147 <p></p> |
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1148 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1149 <img alt="Shelby and Webb set a new high in the “land-based space rac… |
|
1150 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1151 Photo: SSC North America |
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1152 </figcaption> |
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1153 <figcaption> |
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1154 Shelby and Webb set a new high in the “land-based space race.” |
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1155 </figcaption> |
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1156 </figure> |
|
1157 <p>“He was the fastest man on the planet,” Shelby says of Webb. “A… |
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1158 <p></p> |
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1159 <p>The land-speed battle isn’t settled, either. Along with Sweden’s … |
|
1160 <p></p> |
|
1161 <p>“With better conditions, I know we could have gone faster,” Webb … |
|
1162 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1163 <dc:creator>Lawrence Ulrich</dc:creator> |
|
1164 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwOTg3Mg.j… |
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1165 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwOTg3Mg.jpe… |
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1166 </item> |
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1167 <item> |
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1168 <title>New AI Inferencing Records</title> |
|
1169 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-inte… |
|
1170 <description>Nvidia tops MLPerf records again, consortium adds ben… |
|
1171 <category>robotics</category> |
|
1172 <category>robotics/artificial-intelligence</category> |
|
1173 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
|
1174 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-inte… |
|
1175 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://mlperf.org/">MLPerf<… |
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1176 <p>MLPerf’s goal is to present a fair and straightforward way to compa… |
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1177 <p>“Nvidia outperforms by a wide range on every test,” says Paresh K… |
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1178 <p>There were four new inferencing benchmarks introduced this year, addi… |
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1179 <ul> |
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1180 <li>BERT, for Bi-directional Encoder Representation from Transformers, … |
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1181 <li>DLRM, for Deep Learning Recommendation Model is a recommender syste… |
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1182 <li>3D U-Net is used in medical imaging systems to tell which 3D voxel … |
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1183 <li>RNN-T, for Recurrent Neural Network Transducer, is a speech recogni… |
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1184 </ul> |
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1185 <p>In addition to those new metrics, MLPerf put together the first set o… |
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1186 <ul> |
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1187 <li>MobileNetEdgeTPU, an image classification benchmark that is conside… |
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1188 <li>SSD-MobileNetV2, for Single Shot multibox Detection with MobileNetv… |
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1189 <li>DeepLabv3+ MobileNetV2: This is used to understand a scene for thin… |
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1190 <li>MobileBERT is a mobile-optimized variant of the larger natural lang… |
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1191 </ul> |
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1192 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1193 <a class="zoom" href="/image/MzcwODQ2Nw.jpeg" rel="lightbox"><img alt="… |
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1194 <div class="ai"> |
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1195 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1196 Image: NVIDIA |
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1197 </figcaption> |
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1198 <figcaption> |
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1199 Nvidia’s A100 swept the board in AI inferencing tasks where the da… |
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1200 </figcaption> |
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1201 </div> |
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1202 </figure> |
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1203 <p>The benchmarks were run on a purpose-built app that should be availab… |
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1204 <p>The results released this week were dubbed version 0.7, as the consor… |
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1205 <dc:creator>Samuel K. Moore</dc:creator> |
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1206 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODQwMg.j… |
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1207 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODQwMg.jpe… |
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1208 </item> |
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1209 <item> |
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1210 <title>Spotting Mystery Methane Leaks From Space </title> |
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1211 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/spotting-myst… |
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1212 <description>A fleet of microsatellites will identify emitters of … |
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1213 <category>aerospace</category> |
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1214 <category>aerospace/satellites</category> |
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1215 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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1216 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/spotting-myst… |
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1237 <div class="ai"> |
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1238 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1239 Photo: GHGSat |
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1240 </figcaption> |
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1241 <figcaption> |
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1242 <strong>Now in Orbit: </strong>Our newest satellite, Iris, launched i… |
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1243 </figcaption> |
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1244 </div> |
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1245 </figure> |
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1246 <p><strong>Something new happened in space in January 2019.</strong> For… |
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1247 <p>The microsatellite, <a href="https://www.ghgsat.com/our-platforms/cla… |
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1248 <p>The need to track down methane leaks has never been more important. I… |
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1249 <p>Satellites have been able to see greenhouse gases like methane and ca… |
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1250 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1251 <img alt="Photo of several images of methane plumes " src="/image/MzcwN… |
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1252 <div class="ai"> |
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1253 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1254 Images: GHGSat |
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1255 </figcaption> |
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1256 <figcaption> |
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1257 <strong>Eye in the Sky:</strong> The microsatellite Claire has spotte… |
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1258 <strong> </strong> |
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1259 </figcaption> |
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1260 </div> |
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1261 </figure> |
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1262 <p>Since launching Claire, our first microsatellite, we’ve improved on… |
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1263 <p></p> |
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1264 <p><strong>The creation of Claire</strong> and its siblings was driven b… |
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1265 <p>Even in 2011, there was a wider, multibillion-dollar market for carbo… |
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1266 <p>Despite those billions, it’s methane, not carbon dioxide, that has … |
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1267 <p>Markets for greenhouse gases motivate the operators of industrial sit… |
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1268 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1269 <img alt="Photo of people in gowns in front of a satellite. " src="/im… |
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1270 <div class="ai"> |
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1271 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1272 Photo: GHGSat |
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1273 </figcaption> |
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1274 <figcaption> |
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1275 <strong>Very Proud Parents:</strong> The team at the Space Flight Lab… |
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1276 </figcaption> |
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1277 </div> |
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1278 </figure> |
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1279 <p>Once we’d decided on our business plan, the only question was: Coul… |
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1280 <p>One part of the question had already been answered, to a degree, by p… |
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1281 <p>While those satellites proved the concept of methane tracking, their … |
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1282 <p>Furthermore, these systems were designed to measure gas concentration… |
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1283 <p>To achieve our goals, we needed to design something that was the firs… |
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1284 <p><strong>The most critical</strong> enabling technology to meet those … |
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1285 <aside class="inlay rt med"> |
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1286 <h3 class="sb-hed">Sensing Methane From Space</h3> |
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1287 <p>The satellite measures the way a plume of gas [pink] absorbs portion… |
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1288 <ul class="sb-list"> |
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1289 <li> |
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1290 <figure class="med" role="img"> |
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1291 <a class="zoom" href="/image/MzcwNjM4OA.jpeg" rel="lightbox"><img al… |
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1292 </figure> </li> |
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1293 <li> <p>The etalon is made up of two partially mirrored surfaces [bott… |
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1294 <figure class="med" role="img"> |
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1295 <a class="zoom" href="/image/MzcwNjM5Nw.jpeg" rel="lightbox"><img al… |
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1296 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1297 Illustration: James Provost |
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1298 </figcaption> |
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1299 </figure> </li> |
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1300 </ul> |
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1301 </aside> |
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1302 <p>Hyperspectral imaging detects a wide range of wavelengths, some of wh… |
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1303 <p>The spectrometers in SCIAMACHY are based on diffraction gratings. A d… |
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1304 <p>If the incoming light has passed through a gas—say, Earth’s atmos… |
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1305 <p>Such a spectral-imaging system works well, but making it compact is c… |
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1306 <p>A Fabry-Pérot etalon can be much more compact without the need for a… |
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1307 <p>In an imaging system with a Fabry-Pérot etalon like the ones in our … |
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1308 <p>The etalon can be miniaturized more easily than a diffraction-grating… |
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1309 <p>However, there are complications associated with the WAF-P imaging sp… |
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1310 <p></p> |
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1311 <p><strong>The computational process</strong> used to extract gas concen… |
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1312 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1313 <img alt="Illustration of satellites. " src="/image/MzcwNjQwOQ.jpeg"> |
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1314 <div class="ai"> |
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1315 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1316 Illustration: James Provost. Photos: GHGSat |
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1317 </figcaption> |
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1318 <figcaption> |
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1319 <strong>Putting It Together:</strong> To determine the complete spect… |
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1320 </figcaption> |
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1321 </div> |
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1322 </figure> |
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1323 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1324 <p>But that’s just the beginning. Separating the etalon’s mixing of … |
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1325 <p>The next step in the retrieval procedure is to align the images, basi… |
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1326 <p>At this point, the WAF-P’s drawbacks become an advantage. Some othe… |
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1327 <p>Just handing a customer an image of their methane plume on a particul… |
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1328 <p>Using that average, we then produce an estimation of the methane emis… |
|
1329 <p><strong>We’ve learned a lot</strong> in the four years since Claire… |
|
1330 <p>If methane is all we want to measure, we can adjust the design of the… |
|
1331 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1332 <img alt="The heart of the wide-angle Fabry-Pérot imaging spectrometer… |
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1333 <div class="ai"> |
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1334 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1335 Photo: GHGSat |
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1336 </figcaption> |
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1337 <figcaption> |
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1338 <strong>Light Fantastic:</strong> The heart of the wide-angle Fabry-P… |
|
1339 </figcaption> |
|
1340 </div> |
|
1341 </figure> |
|
1342 <p>We also discovered that our next satellites would need better radiati… |
|
1343 <p>Another improvement involves data downloads. Claire has made about 6,… |
|
1344 <p><strong>In its polar orbit,</strong> 500 kilometers above Earth, Clai… |
|
1345 <p>With our microsatellites’ resolution and frequency, we should be ab… |
|
1346 <p>By providing our customers with fine-grained methane surveys, we’re… |
|
1347 <p><em>This article appears in the November 2020 print issue as “Micro… |
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1348 <h2>About the Author</h2> |
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1349 <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-mckeever-7a4a555"><span>Ja… |
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1350 <dc:creator>By Jason McKeever</dc:creator> |
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1351 <dc:creator>Dylan Jervis</dc:creator> |
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1352 <dc:creator>Mathias Strupler</dc:creator> |
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1353 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNTk4Nw.j… |
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1354 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNTk4Nw.jpe… |
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1355 </item> |
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1356 <item> |
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1357 <title>Going Carbon-Negative—Starting with Vodka</title> |
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1358 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/energy/environment/going-c… |
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1359 <description>A Brooklyn startup is an XPRIZE finalist for the way … |
|
1360 <category>energy</category> |
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1361 <category>energy/environment</category> |
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1362 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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1377 <iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless src="https… |
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1378 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>H… |
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1379 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>In 2014, two Google engineers, </span><a href… |
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1380 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>One alternative is to grab carbon dioxide as … |
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1381 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>In fact, in 2015, a bunch of mostly Canadian … |
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1382 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>In 2018, the XPRIZE announced 10 finalists, w… |
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1383 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>One of the more unlikely finalists emerged fr… |
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1384 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The scientific half of founding duo of the Ai… |
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1385 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Staff, welcome to the podcast. </span></p> |
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1386 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1387 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>S… |
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1388 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1389 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>Y… |
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1390 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1391 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>S… |
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1392 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1393 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>A… |
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1394 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1395 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>T… |
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1396 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1397 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>I… |
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1398 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1399 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>So by putting the alcohol that we make—this… |
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1400 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>T… |
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1401 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1402 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>We also … our technology still has a ways t… |
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1403 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>S… |
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1404 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1405 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>I… |
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1406 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1407 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>D… |
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1408 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1409 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>I… |
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1410 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1411 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>I… |
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1412 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1413 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>I… |
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1414 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1415 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>S… |
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1416 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1417 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>Y… |
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1418 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1419 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>A… |
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1420 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1421 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Yeah, the hand sanitizer, I like to think, is… |
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1422 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>T… |
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1423 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1424 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>I… |
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1425 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1426 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>A lot of stuff you can turn CO<sub>2</sub> in… |
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1427 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Have you ever seen the movie Forest Gump? The… |
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1428 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>W… |
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1429 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Yeah, you could you could take plastic and ca… |
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1430 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>I… |
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1431 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1432 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>If we get hydrogen, as a byproduct of chloral… |
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1433 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>W… |
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1434 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Stafford Sheehan </span></strong><spa… |
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1435 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Steven Cherry </span></strong><span>W… |
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1436 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>This interview was recorded October 2, 2020. … |
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1437 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Radio Spectrum is brought to you by <em>IEEE … |
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1438 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>For Radio Spectrum, I’m </span><a href="mai… |
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1439 <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p> |
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1440 <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span>Note: Transcripts are created for the con… |
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1441 <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span>We welcome your comments on Twitter (</sp… |
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1442 <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>]]></content:encoded> |
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1443 <dc:creator>Steven Cherry</dc:creator> |
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1444 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwOTYxNQ.j… |
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1445 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwOTYxNQ.jpe… |
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1446 </item> |
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1447 <item> |
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1448 <title>IROS Robotics Conference Is Online Now and Completely Free<… |
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1449 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwa… |
|
1450 <description>Join 13,000 online attendees for the world’s larges… |
|
1451 <category>robotics</category> |
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1452 <category>robotics/robotics-hardware</category> |
|
1453 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
|
1454 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwa… |
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1455 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 2020 International Conference on … |
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1456 <p>IROS officially opened yesterday, and the best news is that registrat… |
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1457 <!--nextpage--> |
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1458 <p><a href="https://www.iros2020.org/ondemand/signup">Registration for I… |
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1459 <p>Here are some highlights:</p> |
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1460 <h3>Plenaries and Keynotes</h3> |
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1461 <p>Without the normal space and time constraints, you won’t have to pi… |
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1462 <h3>Technical Tracks</h3> |
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1463 <p>There are over 1,400 technical talks, divided up into 12 categories o… |
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1464 <p>On the session page, you’ll see an autoplaying advertisement (that … |
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1465 <h3>Award Finalists</h3> |
|
1466 <p>IROS has thoughtfully grouped all of the paper award finalists togeth… |
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1467 <h3>Workshops and Tutorials</h3> |
|
1468 <p>This stuff is a little more impacted by asynchronicity and on-demande… |
|
1469 <h3>IROS Original Series</h3> |
|
1470 <p>In place of social events and lab tours, IROS this year has come up w… |
|
1471 <h3>Enjoy!</h3> |
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1472 <p>Everything on the IROS On-Demand site should be available for at leas… |
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1473 <p>[ <a href="https://www.iros2020.org/">IROS 2020</a> ]</p>]]></content… |
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1474 <dc:creator>Evan Ackerman</dc:creator> |
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1475 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwOTMxNA.j… |
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1476 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwOTMxNA.jpe… |
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1477 </item> |
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1478 <item> |
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1479 <title>MIT Unveils a Roboat Big Enough to Stand on</title> |
|
1480 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/mar… |
|
1481 <description>A bunch of these boats could meet up to form ad hoc s… |
|
1482 <category>transportation</category> |
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1483 <category>transportation/marine</category> |
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1484 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
|
1485 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/mar… |
|
1486 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An early idea for making the mos… |
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1487 <p>You can play “follow the leader” on the water, too, but because b… |
|
1488 <p>“You could create on demand whatever is needed to shift human activ… |
|
1489 <p>Five years ago the project began by moving <a href="/automaton/roboti… |
|
1490 <p>The latest developments are described in a paper that is being presen… |
|
1491 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1492 <p>“In order to be really accurate and to get situational awareness yo… |
|
1493 <p>MIT’s smallest robo-boats haven’t made the jump from the lab to t… |
|
1494 <p>Autonomous charging is possible, though, for boats large or small. Th… |
|
1495 <dc:creator>Philip E. Ross</dc:creator> |
|
1496 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODE5NA.j… |
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1497 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODE5NA.jpe… |
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1498 </item> |
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1499 <item> |
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1500 <title>Conductorless Orchestra Helps EE Students Fine Tune Their P… |
|
1501 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-member-news/con… |
|
1502 <description>Developed by an Olin College engineering professor, t… |
|
1503 <category>the-institute</category> |
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1504 <category>the-institute/ieee-member-news</category> |
|
1505 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
|
1506 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-member-news/con… |
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1507 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1508 <img alt="Dabby Interacting with the orchestra during a OCO dress rehea… |
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1509 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1510 Photo: Alexander Budnitz |
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1511 </figcaption> |
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1512 <figcaption> |
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1513 Diana Dabby, creator of the Olin Conductorless Orchestra, interacting… |
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1514 </figcaption> |
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1515 </figure> |
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1534 <p><span class="tiopener">THE INSTITUTE </span><a href="https://www.olin… |
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1535 <p>Although Dabby was passionate about music, she had an unsettling feel… |
|
1536 <p>After earning a doctorate in electrical engineering from <a href="htt… |
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1537 <p>In 2000, Dabby joined the <a href="https://www.olin.edu/">Olin Colleg… |
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1538 <p>Last year Dabby won a Best Paper Award from the <a href="https://www.… |
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1539 <h3 class="tisubhead">TAKING A RISK</h3> |
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1540 <p>Dabby says music has always been an extension of herself, and she enj… |
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1541 <p>Performing “just kept accentuating and improving my musicianship, a… |
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1542 <p>She says she enjoyed taking risks in order to achieve her goal of bet… |
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1543 <p>“I built up a very strong track record with taking risks,” she sa… |
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1544 <p>And taking a risk is exactly what Dabby did after she came across an … |
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1545 <p>That idea pushed her to pursue a graduate degree in engineering while… |
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1546 <p>In order to apply to graduate programs, she had to supplement her mus… |
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1547 <p>“I had to [earn] around 127 credits because I had no math or scienc… |
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1548 <p>“I retaught myself algebra and discovered that I loved it,” she s… |
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1549 <p>After Dabby completed the credits she needed, she was accepted to MIT… |
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1550 <p>Dabby has been granted four U.S. patents for her work.</p> |
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1551 <p>She says she wanted to “come up with something for music in the 21s… |
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1552 <h3 class="tisubhead">CONDUCTORLESS ORCHESTRA</h3> |
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1553 <p>In fall 2000, when the Olin College of Engineering assembled a leader… |
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1554 <p>The idea “just popped into my head in our first meeting,” Dabby s… |
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1555 <p>The students learn how to collaborate with one another and how to com… |
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1556 <p>“It requires the musicians to actively listen to their parts within… |
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1557 <p>Olin had only 75 students in its first year, and the first conductorl… |
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1558 <p>The students select a piece to play, and Dabby creates an arrangement… |
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1559 <p>Each year, the musicians elect two to four navigators, who work with … |
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1560 <p>During rehearsals, orchestra members can share their thoughts regardi… |
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1561 <p>All involved in the OCO learn how to listen, when to speak, and when … |
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1562 <p>“Employers see the Olin Conductorless Orchestra on résumés and th… |
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1563 <p>The program also has helped students during their time at the college… |
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1564 <p>“It’s a stress-reliever,” Dabby says. The OCO “gives [student… |
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1565 <p>The orchestra performs at school functions and travels once a year to… |
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1566 <p>“There’s always an upcoming performance, and it’s another chanc… |
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1567 <dc:creator>Joanna Goodrich</dc:creator> |
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1568 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODg5Mw.j… |
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1569 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODg5Mw.jpe… |
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1570 </item> |
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1571 <item> |
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1572 <title>No Implants Needed For Precise Control Deep Into The Brain<… |
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1573 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/de… |
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1574 <description>Optogenetics can now control neural circuits at unpre… |
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1575 <category>biomedical</category> |
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1576 <category>biomedical/devices</category> |
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1577 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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1578 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/de… |
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1579 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first time Karl Deisseroth used l… |
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1580 <p></p> |
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1581 <p>In the years since that initial groundbreaking 2004 <a href="https://… |
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1582 <p></p> |
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1583 <p>“This is kind of a nice bookend to 16 years of research,” says <a… |
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1584 <!--nextpage--> |
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1585 <p></p> |
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1586 <p>Optogenetics involves genetically engineering animal brains to expres… |
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1587 <p></p> |
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1588 <p>Most of the time, getting the pulses of light inside the brain to con… |
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1589 <p></p> |
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1590 <p>In April, <a href="https://mcgovern.mit.edu/profile/guoping-feng/">Gu… |
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1591 <p></p> |
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1592 <p>In the most recent study, <span>Deisseroth and colleagues sought… |
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1593 <p></p> |
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1594 <p>The team then tested the effectiveness of the system. In one instance… |
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1595 <p></p> |
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1596 <p>Most optogenetic techniques involve injecting viruses with an opsin g… |
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1597 <p></p> |
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1598 <p>Deisseroth’s team is now testing the non-invasive technique in fish… |
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1599 <dc:creator>Megan Scudellari</dc:creator> |
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1600 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODU1MQ.j… |
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1601 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODU1MQ.jpe… |
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1602 </item> |
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1603 <item> |
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1604 <title>Should the DoD’s Tech Professionals Work From Home—Perm… |
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1605 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-… |
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1606 <description>The Defense Innovation Board recommends continuing re… |
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1607 <category>at-work</category> |
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1608 <category>at-work/tech-careers</category> |
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1609 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:24:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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1610 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-… |
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1611 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span>With tech com… |
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1612 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>In <a href="https://innovation.defense.gov/Po… |
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1613 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Right now, the Department of Defense is allow… |
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1614 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>In addition to urging the DoD to follow in th… |
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1615 <aside class="inlay pullquote rt med"> |
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1616 Senior DoD leaders “should commit to periodically working from home … |
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1617 </aside> |
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1618 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>For one, the Board suggested that the DoD cre… |
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1619 <p class="MsoNormal"><span>In another suggestion, the Board urged that, … |
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1620 <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>]]></content:encoded> |
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1621 <dc:creator>Tekla S. Perry</dc:creator> |
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1622 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODMxMQ.j… |
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1626 <title>Video Friday: Sarcos Is Developing a New Teleoperated Dexte… |
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1627 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwa… |
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1628 <description>Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos</descri… |
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1629 <category>robotics</category> |
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1630 <category>robotics/robotics-hardware</category> |
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1631 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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1632 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwa… |
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1633 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Video Friday is your weekly selection… |
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1634 <h5><a href="http://www.iros2020.org/">IROS 2020</a> – October 25… |
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1635 <h5><a href="https://roscon.ros.org/world/2020/">ROS World 2020</a> –&… |
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1636 <h5><a href="https://cybathlon.ethz.ch/en/">CYBATHLON 2020</a> – … |
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1637 <h5><a href="https://sites.psu.edu/icsr2020/">ICSR 2020</a> – Nov… |
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1638 <p><a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Robot%20video%20suggestion… |
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1639 <hr> |
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1640 <!--nextpage--> |
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1641 <blockquote> |
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1642 <p><em><a href="/tech-talk/aerospace/robotic-exploration/the-long-arm-o… |
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1643 </blockquote> |
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1644 <p></p> |
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1645 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1646 <p></p> |
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1647 <p>[ <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/osiris-rex-tags-… |
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1648 <p></p> |
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1649 <hr> |
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1650 <p></p> |
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1651 <p>New from David Zarrouk’s lab at BGU is AmphiSTAR, which Zarrouk des… |
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1652 <p></p> |
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1653 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1654 <p></p> |
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1655 <p>AmphiSTAR will be presented at IROS, starting next week!</p> |
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1656 <p>[ <a href="https://designandrobotics.weebly.com/">BGU</a> ]</p> |
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1657 <p></p> |
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1658 <hr> |
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1659 <p></p> |
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1660 <p>This is unfortunately not a great video of a video that was taken at … |
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1661 <div class="embedcode"> |
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1662 <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-dnt="true"> |
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1663 <p>ロボット応援団に人型ロボット『ATLAS』がアメリ�… |
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1664 <a href="https://twitter.com/HAWKS_official/status/1317068357779124224… |
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1665 </blockquote> |
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1666 <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="ut… |
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1667 </div> |
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1668 <p><em><strong>Editor’s Note: </strong>The tweet embed above is not wo… |
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1669 <p>[ <a href="https://www.softbankhawks.co.jp/global/english/index.html"… |
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1670 <p><em>Thanks Thomas!</em></p> |
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1671 <p></p> |
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1672 <hr> |
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1673 <p></p> |
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1674 <p><a href="/tag/Sarcos+Robotics">Sarcos</a> is working on a new robot, … |
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1675 <p></p> |
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1676 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1677 <p></p> |
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1678 <p>[ <a href="https://www.sarcos.com/products/guardian-xt/">Sarcos</a> ]… |
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1679 <p></p> |
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1680 <hr> |
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1681 <p></p> |
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1682 <p>The biggest holiday of the year, International Sloth Day, was on Tues… |
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1683 <p></p> |
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1684 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1685 <p></p> |
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1686 <p>[ <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=186892&am… |
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1687 <p></p> |
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1688 <hr> |
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1689 <p></p> |
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1690 <p>This is one of those simple-seeming tasks that are really difficult f… |
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1691 <p></p> |
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1692 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1693 <p></p> |
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1694 <p>I love self-resetting training environments.</p> |
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1695 <p>[ <a href="https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/robot-stably-swings-objects… |
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1696 <p></p> |
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1697 <hr> |
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1698 <p></p> |
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1699 <blockquote> |
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1700 <p><em>The Chiel lab collaborates with engineers at the Center for Biol… |
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1701 </blockquote> |
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1702 <p></p> |
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1703 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1704 <p></p> |
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1705 <p>[ <a href="https://biology.case.edu/faculty/hillel-chiel/">Case Weste… |
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1706 <p></p> |
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1707 <hr> |
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1708 <p></p> |
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1709 <blockquote> |
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1710 <p><em>ANYbotics partnered with Losinger Marazzi to explore ANYmal’s … |
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1711 </blockquote> |
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1712 <p></p> |
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1713 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1714 <p></p> |
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1715 <p>[ <a href="https://www.anybotics.com/anymal-tackles-construction-safe… |
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1716 <p></p> |
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1717 <hr> |
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1718 <p></p> |
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1719 <p>Happy 2018 Halloween from Clearpath Robotics!</p> |
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1720 <p></p> |
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1721 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1722 <p></p> |
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1723 <p>[ <a href="https://clearpathrobotics.com/">Clearpath</a> ]</p> |
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1724 <p></p> |
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1725 <hr> |
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1726 <p></p> |
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1727 <blockquote> |
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1728 <p><em>Overcoming illumination variance is a critical factor in vision-… |
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1729 </blockquote> |
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1730 <p></p> |
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1731 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1732 <p></p> |
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1733 <p>[ <a href="https://irap.kaist.ac.kr/">KAIST</a> ]</p> |
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1734 <p></p> |
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1735 <hr> |
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1736 <p></p> |
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1737 <p>What can MoveIt do? Who knows! Let's find out!</p> |
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1738 <p></p> |
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1739 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1740 <p></p> |
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1741 <p>[ <a href="https://moveit.ros.org/">MoveIt</a> ]</p> |
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1742 <p><em>Thanks Dave!</em></p> |
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1743 <p></p> |
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1744 <hr> |
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1745 <p></p> |
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1746 <blockquote> |
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1747 <p><em>Here we pick a cube from a starting point, manipulate it within … |
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1748 </blockquote> |
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1749 <p></p> |
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1750 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1751 <p></p> |
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1752 <p>[ <a href="https://www.robotics.tu-berlin.de/menue/home/">TU Berlin</… |
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1753 <p></p> |
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1754 <hr> |
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1755 <p></p> |
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1756 <p>If this was a real solar array, <a href="/automaton/robotics/robotics… |
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1757 <p></p> |
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1758 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1759 <p></p> |
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1760 <p>[ <a href="http://radlab.byu.edu/model-predictive-control-of-complian… |
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1761 <p></p> |
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1762 <hr> |
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1763 <p></p> |
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1764 <blockquote> |
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1765 <p><em>Autonomous exploration is a fundamental problem for various appl… |
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1766 </blockquote> |
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1767 <p></p> |
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1768 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1769 <p></p> |
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1770 <p>[ <a href="https://github.com/HKUST-Aerial-Robotics/FUEL">HKUST</a> ]… |
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1771 <p></p> |
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1772 <hr> |
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1773 <p></p> |
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1774 <blockquote> |
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1775 <p><em>Countless precise repetitions? This is the perfect task for a ro… |
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1776 </blockquote> |
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1777 <p></p> |
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1778 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1779 <p></p> |
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1780 <p>[ <a href="https://www.blog.kuka.com/2020/08/11/experiments-with-robo… |
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1781 <p></p> |
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1782 <hr> |
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1783 <p></p> |
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1784 <blockquote> |
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1785 <p><em>This video shows a demonstration of central results of the Secon… |
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1786 </blockquote> |
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1787 <p></p> |
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1788 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1789 <p></p> |
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1790 <p>[ <a href="https://secondhands.eu/">SecondHands</a> ]</p> |
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1791 <p></p> |
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1792 <hr> |
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1793 <p></p> |
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1794 <p>In celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, Silicon Valley Robotics hosted a … |
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1795 <p></p> |
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1796 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1797 <p></p> |
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1798 <p>[ <a href="https://robohub.org/women-in-robotics-panel-celebrating-ad… |
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1799 <p></p> |
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1800 <hr> |
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1801 <p></p> |
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1802 <p>As part of the upcoming virtual IROS conference, HEBI robotics is put… |
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1803 <p></p> |
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1804 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1805 <p></p> |
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1806 <p>[ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JrBDRNPxv4&list=PLYy-… |
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1807 <p><em>Thanks Dave!</em></p> |
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1808 <p></p> |
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1809 <hr> |
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1810 <p></p> |
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1811 <p>This week’s UMD Lockheed Martin Robotics Seminar comes from Julie S… |
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1812 <p></p> |
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1813 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1814 <p></p> |
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1815 <blockquote> |
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1816 <p><em>Every team has top performers- people who excel at working in a … |
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1817 </blockquote> |
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1818 <p>[ <a href="https://robotics.umd.edu/">UMD</a> ]</p> |
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1819 <p></p> |
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1820 <hr> |
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1821 <p></p> |
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1822 <p>Matthew Piccoli gives a talk to the UPenn GRASP Lab on “Trading Com… |
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1823 <p></p> |
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1824 <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtu… |
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1825 <p></p> |
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1826 <blockquote> |
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1827 <p><em>We will discuss my research journey through Penn making the worl… |
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1828 </blockquote> |
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1829 <p>[ <a href="https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/">UPenn</a> ]</p> |
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1830 <p></p> |
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1831 <hr> |
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1833 <dc:creator>Evan Ackerman</dc:creator> |
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1834 <dc:creator>Erico Guizzo</dc:creator> |
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1835 <dc:creator>Fan Shi</dc:creator> |
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1836 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwODEwOQ.j… |
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1840 <title>Researchers at the University of Tehran Devise New Sputum T… |
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1841 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/news-from-around-ieee/the-institut… |
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1842 <description>This electrochemical diagnostic tool uses carbon nano… |
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1843 <category>the-institute</category> |
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1844 <category>the-institute/ieee-member-news</category> |
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1845 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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1872 <p><span class="tiblogopener">THE INSTITUTE </span>Nasopharyngeal swabs … |
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1873 <p>IEEE Member <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-abdolahad-1… |
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1874 <p>Abdolahad is an associate professor of electrical engineering at the … |
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1875 <p><a href="/the-institute"><em>The Institute</em></a> asked him ab… |
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1876 <p><em>This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.</em></p… |
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1877 <p></p> |
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1878 <p><strong>What problem are you trying to solve? </strong></p> |
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1879 <p>Since controlling the spread of the virus [largely] depends on screen… |
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1880 <p>Consequently, we have developed a fast method to screen for respirato… |
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1881 <p><strong>Explain how the system works.</strong></p> |
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1882 <p>The ROS test is done by taking a sample of the patient’s sputum. [T… |
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1883 <p>Each individual sample is tested using the RDSS probe. The doctor [pu… |
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1885 <p>The system consists of <span class="fontstyle01">an integrated monito… |
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1886 <p><span class="fontstyle01">The <span class="fontstyle01">sensor on top… |
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1887 <p><span class="fontstyle01">The tool [is portable], which allows the de… |
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1888 <p><span class="fontstyle01">The software [programmed in the device] <sp… |
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1889 <p><strong>What challenges have you faced, and how did you overcome … |
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1890 <p>The first challenge was calibrating the sensor in correlation with th… |
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1891 <p>We conducted a study and tested more than 100 people to better unders… |
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1892 <p>The other challenge that we faced was collecting enough data to calib… |
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1893 <p><strong>What is the potential impact of the technology?</strong></p> |
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1894 <p>A real-time ROS-based respiratory inflammation warning system during … |
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1895 <p><strong>How close are you to the final product?&n… |
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1896 <p>We [completed developing the system] and received a temporary certifi… |
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1897 <p>The sensor has been deployed in four hospitals, as a non-invasive rea… |
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1898 <p><strong>How can other IEEE members get involved?</strong></p> |
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1899 <p>We have only tested [the system] on [patients] in Iran [and] the syst… |
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1900 <p>IEEE members who work in similar areas can help test ROS levels in th… |
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1909 <title>Researchers Pack 10,000 Metasurface Pixels Per Inch in New … |
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1910 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/aud… |
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1911 <description>The novel display from Samsung and Stanford could fin… |
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1912 <category>consumer-electronics</category> |
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1913 <category>consumer-electronics/audiovideo</category> |
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1914 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:53:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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1915 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/aud… |
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1916 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>A new OLED display from Samsung… |
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1917 <p></p> |
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1918 <p><span>An <a href="/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectronics/the-heat-… |
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1919 <p></p> |
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1920 <p><span>Two different kinds of OLED displays have reached commercial su… |
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1921 <p></p> |
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1922 <p><span>In contrast, large-scale TVs use white OLEDs with color filters… |
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1923 <p><span>The new display uses OLED films to emit white light between two… |
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1924 <p></p> |
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1925 <p><span>Each pixel in the new display's metasurface is divided into fou… |
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1926 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1927 <img alt="A scanning electron microscopy image of the forest of nano-pi… |
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1929 Image: Mark Brongersma/Science |
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1930 </figcaption> |
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1931 <figcaption> |
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1932 <p>A scanning electron microscopy image of the forest of nano-pillars … |
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1933 </figcaption> |
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1934 </figure> |
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1935 <p></p> |
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1936 <p><span>Emitted light reflects back and forth between the display's ref… |
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1937 <p></p> |
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1938 <p><span>"If you think of a musical instrument, you often see an acousti… |
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1939 <p></p> |
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1940 <p><span>In the near term, one potential application for this new displa… |
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1941 <p></p> |
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1942 <p><span>As impressive as 10,000 pixels per inch might sound, "according… |
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1943 <p></p> |
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1944 <p><span>Other research groups have developed displays they say range fr… |
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1945 <p></p> |
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1946 <p>In the future, metasurfaces might also find use trapping light in app… |
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1947 <p></p> |
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1948 <p><span>The scientists detailed </span><span lang="zxx"><a href="https:… |
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1949 <dc:creator>Charles Q. Choi</dc:creator> |
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1950 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNzUyNw.j… |
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1951 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNzUyNw.jpe… |
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1954 <title>Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply</titl… |
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1955 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/use-your-bike-a… |
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1956 <description>Combining solar and pedal power should get you throug… |
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1957 <category>geek-life</category> |
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1958 <category>geek-life/hands-on</category> |
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1959 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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1960 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/use-your-bike-a… |
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1961 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1962 <img alt="Image of a bicycle, solar panel, and battery set up. " src="/… |
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1963 <div class="ai"> |
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1964 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1965 Illustration: James Provost |
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1966 </figcaption> |
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1967 </div> |
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1968 </figure> |
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1969 <p><strong>As this article goes to</strong> press, <a href="https://en.w… |
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1970 <p>I don’t mind the resulting darkness so much. What I really don’t … |
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1971 <p>I could, of course, just purchase a conventional small gasoline-power… |
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1972 <p>My first thought was to use photovoltaics, so I purchased two 100-wat… |
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1973 <p>Some experiments with a watt meter led me to conclude that a battery … |
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1974 <p>But what if skies remained gray for many days in a row? Rather than t… |
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1975 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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1976 <img alt="Illustration of the components of the bike battery." src="/im… |
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1977 <div class="ai"> |
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1978 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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1979 Illustration: James Provost |
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1980 </figcaption> |
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1981 <figcaption> |
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1982 <strong>Parallel Power: </strong>My system primarily relies on photov… |
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1983 </figcaption> |
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1984 </div> |
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1985 </figure> |
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1986 <p>I cycle regularly for about an hour a day, during which I probably pu… |
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1987 <p>I discovered from one blogger that it wouldn’t be hard to <a href="… |
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1988 <p>I ripped out all that drag-inducing stuff and attached a <a href="htt… |
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1989 <p>Testing my power-producing bicycle stand quickly revealed a flaw in m… |
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1990 <p>Actually, generating power with their muscles provides a valuable les… |
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1991 <p><em>This article appears in the November 2020 print issue as “Pedal… |
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1992 <dc:creator>David Schneider</dc:creator> |
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1993 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNTQ0Mw.j… |
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1994 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNTQ0Mw.jpe… |
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1995 </item> |
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1996 <item> |
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1997 <title>New Sensor Integrated Within Dental Implants Monitors Bone … |
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1998 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/ne… |
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1999 <description>The device could one day mean less x-rays for people … |
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2000 <category>biomedical</category> |
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2001 <category>biomedical/devices</category> |
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2002 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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2003 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/ne… |
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2004 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<link href="/ns/interactive/0118race-to-… |
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2005 <div class="mobileHide"> |
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2006 <div class="imgWrapper offsetLeft lt sm"> |
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2007 <a href="/static/journal-watch"><img alt="Journal Watch report logo, l… |
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2008 </div> |
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2009 </div> |
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2010 <p>Scientists have created a new sensor that can be integrated within de… |
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2011 <p>Currently, x-rays are used to monitor jaw health following a dental i… |
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2012 <p>To reduce this need for x-rays, Hassanzadeh and two graduate students… |
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2013 <p>The sensors are made of titanium and poly-ether-ether-ketone, and are… |
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2014 <p>“When the bone is forming around the sensor, the capacitance of the… |
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2015 <p>In their study, the researchers tested the sensors in the femur and j… |
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2016 <p>He says that the sensor still needs to be optimized for size and… |
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2017 <div class="mobileShow"> |
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2018 <h3 class="RptHdBackBarMobile"><span class="BackArrowBlkBkgrd"><</sp… |
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2019 </div>]]></content:encoded> |
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2020 <dc:creator>Michelle Hampson</dc:creator> |
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2021 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwMzE2Ng.j… |
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2022 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwMzE2Ng.jpe… |
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2023 </item> |
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2024 <item> |
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2025 <title>The Lithium-Ion Battery With Built-In Fire Suppression</tit… |
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2026 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/batteries-storage… |
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2027 <description>New design also increases energy density for Li-ion b… |
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2028 <category>energy</category> |
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2029 <category>energy/batteries-storage</category> |
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2030 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:51:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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2031 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/batteries-storage… |
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2032 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If there are superstars in battery re… |
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2033 <p>Now Cui and his research team, in collaboration with <a href="https:/… |
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2034 <p>Current collectors are thin metal foils that distribute current to an… |
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2035 <p>The Stanford team claim in their research published in the journal <e… |
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2036 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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2037 <img alt="Scientists at Stanford and SLAC redesigned current conductors… |
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2038 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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2039 Image: Yusheng Ye/Stanford University |
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2040 </figcaption> |
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2041 <figcaption> |
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2042 Scientists at Stanford and SLAC redesigned current conductors, thin m… |
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2043 </figcaption> |
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2044 </figure> |
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2045 <p>This method of lightening the batteries is a bit of a novel approach … |
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2046 <p>The Stanford team have calculated the increase of 16 to 26 percent in… |
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2047 <p>“Current collectors don’t contribute to the total energy but cont… |
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2048 <aside class="inlay pullquote lt med offsetLeft"> |
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2049 Whenever the battery has combustion issues, our current collector will… |
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2050 </aside> |
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2051 <p>By reducing the weight of the current collector, the energy density c… |
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2052 <p>“In order to improve the range from 400 miles to 600 miles, for exa… |
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2053 <p>Beyond improved energy density efficiency, the polymer-based charge c… |
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2054 <p>“One of the key innovations in our novel current collector is that … |
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2055 <p>The researchers have patented the technology and are in discussions w… |
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2056 <dc:creator>Dexter Johnson</dc:creator> |
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2057 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNzIxNg.j… |
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2058 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNzIxNg.jpe… |
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2059 </item> |
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2060 <item> |
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2061 <title>From Foldable Phones to Stretchy Screens</title> |
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2062 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devi… |
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2063 <description>Today, you can buy a smartphone with a foldable displ… |
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2064 <category>consumer-electronics</category> |
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2065 <category>consumer-electronics/portable-devices</category> |
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2066 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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2067 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devi… |
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2068 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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2069 <img alt="A image displaying the foldable aspects of the new phones." s… |
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2070 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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2071 Photo-illustration: Dan Saelinger |
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2072 </figcaption> |
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2073 </figure> |
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2074 <p><strong><a href="https://www.motorola.com/us/">Motorola</a> demonstra… |
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2075 <p>But smartphones, nimble as they are, have struggled to overcome one s… |
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2076 <p>The obvious solution is to have the display fold up like a wallet. Fo… |
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2077 <p>Soon, phones with foldable screens will no doubt proliferate. You or … |
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2078 <p><strong>Researchers have been seriously</strong> investigating how to… |
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2079 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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2080 <img alt="Person demonstrating the bendable display of the first commer… |
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2081 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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2082 Photo: Robyn Beck/Getty Images |
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2083 </figcaption> |
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2084 <div class="ai"> |
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2085 <figcaption> |
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2086 <p><strong>A Closed Book:</strong> In late 2018, Royole Corp. develop… |
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2087 </figcaption> |
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2088 </div> |
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2089 </figure> |
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2090 <p>In late 2018, Royole introduced the <a href="https://www.royole.com/u… |
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2091 <p>Soon afterward, <a href="https://www.samsung.com/us/">Samsung</a> and… |
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2092 <p>The most challenging part of engineering these phones was, of course,… |
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2093 <p>Like those found in conventional smartphones, these are all active-ma… |
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2094 <p>Although flexible displays constructed along these lines are fast bec… |
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2095 <p>Because any material, be it a smartphone display or a steel plate, is… |
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2096 <p>To make the display as thin as possible, designers omit the protectiv… |
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2097 <p><strong>Another difference</strong> between flexible and conventional… |
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2098 <p>Researchers battling this problem a decade ago found a few strategies… |
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2099 <p>Even simpler, you can get rid of the ITO electrodes altogether. While… |
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2100 <p>A flexible film that contains silver nanowires is probably the most p… |
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2101 <figure class="xlrg" role="img"> |
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2102 <img alt="Image displaying the flexible features of the Huawei Mate Xs … |
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2103 <div class="ai"> |
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2104 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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2105 Photo: Tolga Akmen/Getty Images |
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2106 </figcaption> |
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2107 <figcaption> |
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2108 <strong>Into the Fold:</strong> In 2019, Huawei introduced a line of … |
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2109 </figcaption> |
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2110 </div> |
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2111 </figure> |
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2112 <p>Most of the research on silver nanowires has been focused on findin… |
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2113 <p>But metal nanowires aren’t the only possible substitute for ITO whe… |
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2114 <p>Yet another possibility is to use a conductive polymer. The prime exa… |
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2115 <p><strong>Up to now, the organic LED displays</strong> used in mob… |
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2116 <p>An interesting alternative, however, has emerged for fabricating such… |
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2117 <figure class="stacked xlrg" role="img"> |
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2118 <img alt="Person demonstrating the flexible display of the Samsung Gala… |
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2119 <figcaption class="hi-cap"> |
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2120 Photo: Jung Yeon-je/AFP/Getty Images |
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2121 </figcaption> |
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2122 <figcaption> |
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2123 <strong>Bent on Competing:</strong> Samsung also introduced its own li… |
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2124 </figcaption> |
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2125 </figure> |
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2126 <p>For makers of small displays for smartphones, an even higher priority… |
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2127 <p><strong>What’s next for</strong> flexible displays after they allow… |
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2128 <p>The materials used to produce such a display should, of course, be so… |
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2129 <p>More recently, though, there’s been progress in developing intrinsi… |
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2130 <p>Today, only very crude prototypes of stretchable displays have been f… |
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2131 <p>With just a little imagination, you can envision what’s coming down… |
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2132 <p><em>This article appears in the November 2020 print issue as “Displ… |
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2133 <h2>About the Authors</h2> |
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2134 <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/huanyu-zhou-0b6aa7155/">Huanyu Z… |
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2135 <dc:creator>Huanyu Zhou</dc:creator> |
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2136 <dc:creator>Tae-Woo Lee</dc:creator> |
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2137 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNjgzNQ.j… |
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2138 <media:content url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNjgzNQ.jpe… |
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2139 </item> |
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2140 <item> |
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2141 <title>Intel Creating Cryptographic Codes That Quantum Computers C… |
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2142 <link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/how-t… |
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2143 <description>Intel researchers developed a hardware accelerator th… |
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2144 <category>computing</category> |
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2145 <category>computing/hardware</category> |
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2146 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:44:00 GMT</pubDate> |
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2147 <guid>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/how-t… |
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2148 <content:encoded><![CDATA[<link href="/ns/interactive/0118race-to-… |
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2149 <div class="mobileHide"> |
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2151 <a href="/static/journal-watch"><img alt="Journal Watch report logo, l… |
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2152 </div> |
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2153 </div> |
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2154 <p>The world will need a new generation of cryptographic algorithms once… |
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2155 <p>The Bit-flipping Key Encapsulation (BIKE) provides a way to crea… |
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2156 <p>“Software execution of BIKE, especially on lightweight IoT devices,… |
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2157 <p>Intel has been working in cooperation with several other companies to… |
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2158 <p>BIKE securely establishes a shared secret between two devices through… |
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2159 <p>The improved version of BIKE takes advantage of a new decoder th… |
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2160 <p><span>“</span><span>BIKE is well suited for applications where IoT … |
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2161 <p>This also represents the first hardware implementation of BIKE suitab… |
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2162 <p>The team was previously focused on BIKE implementations suitable for … |
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2163 <p>The latest hardware implementation for BIKE takes the security up a c… |
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2164 <p>“Our BIKE decoder supports keys and ciphertexts for Level 5 which p… |
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2165 <p>The latest version of the BIKE hardware accelerator has a design that… |
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2166 <p>In theory, such attacks against BIKE might attempt to target a s… |
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2167 <p>But the new BIKE hardware accelerator offers protection against … |
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2168 <p>The BIKE hardware accelerator also has protection against timing atta… |
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2169 <p>BIKE was previously chosen as one of eight alternates in the third ro… |
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2170 <p>The researchers have submitted their revised version of BIKE for… |
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2172 <h3 class="RptHdBackBarMobile"><span class="BackArrowBlkBkgrd"><</sp… |
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2174 <dc:creator>Jeremy Hsu</dc:creator> |
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2175 <media:thumbnail url="https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNzI3MQ.j… |
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