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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight

“Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving …

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet

“The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen …

NAU mechanical engineers develop new high-performance artificial muscle technology

“In the field of robotics, researchers are continually looking for the fastest, strongest, most efficient and lowest-cost ways to actuate, or enable, robots to make the movements needed to carry out their intended functions. The quest for new and better …

New conductive polymer ink opens for next-generation printed electronics

“Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a stable high-conductivity polymer ink. The advance paves the way for innovative printed electronics with high energy efficiency. The results have been published in Nature Communications. Electrically conducting polymers have made possible the …

New material could better protect soldiers, athletes and motorists

“Soldiers, athletes, and motorists could lead safer lives thanks to a new process that could lead to more efficient and re-useable protection from shock and impact, explosion, and vibration, according to a new study. Pressurised insertion of aqueous solutions into …

New process breaks down biodegradable plastics faster

“Invention could solve waste management challenges on the battlefield. With Army funding, scientists invented a way to make compostable plastics break down within a few weeks with just heat and water. This advance will potentially solve waste management challenges at …

NVIDIA Sets AI Inference Records, Introduces A30 and A10 GPUs for Enterprise Servers

“NVIDIA today announced that its AI inference platform, newly expanded with NVIDIA® A30 and A10 GPUs for mainstream servers, has achieved record-setting performance across every category on the latest release of MLPerf. MLPerf is the industry’s established benchmark for …

One Giant Leap For Waferscale AI

“Remember how, a few years ago, the chatter was that waferscale systems wouldn’t stand a chance? The expense, complexity, software stack required, and litany of other barriers went on. Yet Cerebras Systems propelled ahead anyway. While they’re not …

Phone Thermometer Using Digispark Attiny85

“In this tutorial, we are going to build a simple OTG Phone Thermometer using Digispark ATtiny85 that can connect to our mobile phone via an OTG adaptor and read the real-time temperature of anything and display it on the serial …

PhotoStax - Digital ePaper Photo Frame

“Display regular photographs on a tri-color ePaper Display. You can get pretty good image quality and color variation by using a method called Floyd-Steinberg dithering, even with only three colors (red, white and black) on the ePaper Display! I automated …