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Next-Gen Electric Vehicle Batteries: These are the Questions We Still Need to Answer

The next generation of electric vehicle batteries, with greater range and improved safety, could be emerging in the form of lithium metal, solid-state technology. But...

Scientists to Cut the ‘Key’ to an Unhackable 5G Network

Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have secured six-figure funding from Innovate-UK on a project led by BT to develop practical quantum key distribution (QKD) transmitter...

A Robotic Plankton Sniffer Dog

Marine phytoplankton, or plant plankton, are incredibly important to life on Earth. As they go about their work of turning sunlight into energy, they...

Merlin Labs Develops Autonomous 55-Craft King Air fleet

Inspired by a close encounter with a fellow aircraft during his years as a novice pilot, Merlin Labs founder Matt George found himself drawn...

Researchers Create Robot that Smiles Back

While our facial expressions play a huge role in building trust, most robots still sport the blank and static visage of a professional poker...

Microsoft Announces First Product Features Running on GPT-3

During its Build developers conference this year, Microsoft announced its first features for a product fueled by GPT-3, the natural language model from OpenAI...

Ford: Electric Vehicles to be 40% of Global Sales by 2030

Ford expects 40% of its global sales to be battery-electric vehicles by 2030 as it adds billions to what it's spending to develop them. The...

The Path to More Human-Like Robot Object Manipulation Skills

What if a robot could organize your closet or chop your vegetables? A sous chef in every home could someday be a reality. Still, while...

New eBook Explores the Future of Automotive Design and Manufacturing

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry’s leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, announces a new eBook...

Delivering Smart Manufacturing Solutions

Hexagon, a global leader in sensor, software, and autonomous technologies, and Plex Systems, the leader in cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions, today announced a new...

Study of Promising Perovskites Leads to Discovery of a New State of Matter

Researchers at McGill University have gained new insight into the workings of perovskites, a semiconductor material that shows great promise for making high-efficiency, low-cost...

Novel Heterostructure Nanosheet Boosts Efficiency of Lean-Electrolyte Lithium Batteries

Lithium sulfur (Li-S) battery technology is promising for next-generation energy storage. However, lithium polysulfide shuttling, sluggish redox kinetics, and uncontrollable lithium dendrite growth limit...

Slender Robot Finger Senses Buried Items

Over the years, robots have gotten quite good at identifying objects—as long as they're out in the open. Discerning buried items in granular material...

New Prototype LED Lightbulb Emits Less of that Troublesome Blue Light

LED lightbulbs offer considerable advantages over other types of lighting. Being more efficient, they require much less electricity to operate. They do not give...

Auto Chip Supply Crunch Worsens, Probably to Last Till 2022

The global vehicle chip supply crunch has not eased. Some automakers plan to cut vehicle production, and industry sources predict things will get worse...

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