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“UNSW’s Creative Robotics Lab and the Fuji Xerox Research Technology Group have developed a social robot designed to promote creativity and collaboration in the workplace. Social robot developed at UNSW set to revolutionise workplace experience Twitter Facebook LinkedIn 08 …
“University of Canterbury Physics Professor Simon Brown is developing a neuromorphic computer chip that may solve one of the biggest problems in the computer industry – power consumption – and create a New Zealand semiconductor industry. University of Canterbury (UC) Physics Professor …
“Airbus Helicopters’ Skyways unmanned air vehicle has successfully completed its first flight demonstration at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The drone took off from its dedicated maintenance centre and landed on the roof of a specially designed parcel station …
“When a man in a small village in Bali claimed to have made a functioning bionic arm out of scrap metal at home he became a local sensation. But even as serious doubts emerged about the technology behind it, BBC …
“Physicists propose a new theory of dark matter based on the detection of unusual x-ray radiation from galaxies Dark matter is increasingly puzzling. Around the world, physicists have been trying for decades to determine the nature of these matter particles …
“A United States research team shows how electronically excited quantum dots can be imaged at multiple orientations to gain a fuller understanding of quantum dot behavior. Quantum dots are rapidly taking center stage in emerging applications and research developments, from …
“MPQ scientists realize mathematical operations with a quantum gate between two trapped atoms that is mediated by photons. Some powerful rulers of the world may dream of the possibility to get in touch with their colleagues on different continents unnoticed …
“NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has begun extra stargazing to help the space agency accomplish advances in Mars exploration over the next decade. The spacecraft already has worked more than double its planned mission life since launch in 2005 …
“Miniature glasses have revealed a new form of 3D vision in praying mantises that could lead to simpler visual processing for robots. Publishing their latest research in Current Biology, the Newcastle University team have discovered that mantis 3D vision works …
“Two small asteroids recently discovered by astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona, are safely passing by Earth within one lunar distance this week. The first of this week’s close-approaching asteroids — discovered by CSS …