A system of RFID tags helps robots track objects with unparalleled accuracy and speed. And such mechanisms do not need machine vision and all its expensive “equipment”. MIT’s TurboTrack system, presented at the USENIX symposium in California, detects a tagged object on average within 7.5 milliseconds, and the error is Read more…
Samsung has introduced four versions of the smartphone Galaxy S10, as well as a smartphone with a flexible screen Galaxy Fold. In addition, the company showed new versions of the Galaxy Watch smart watches and Galaxy Fit wristbands, as well as Galaxy Buds wireless headphones. The presentation was broadcast on Read more…
The controller is attached between the index and middle fingers and combines the capabilities of the joystick with tactile feedback and the touch panel. The novelty is already available for developers, and users can buy it at the end of the year. According to the founders of the British company Read more…
French researcher Yann LeCun advises to watch the smartphone market – mobile devices will become the test ground for new technologies in the field of AI. Developers have to give the algorithms common sense, and engineers – to improve the hardware. Vacuum cleaners will become smarter Although the head of Read more…
To fit a full-fledged computer at the tip of a finger, engineers applied a number of unusual solutions. For example, each RRAM memory cell remembers not only zeros and ones. Experts from Stanford University have developed a prototype of a computer that fits on a chip the size of a Read more…
The Dutch company NXT Motors presented its vision of the electric motorcycle of the future – NXT Rage. An unusual model is a naked bike assembled around a carbon monocoque. Because of this, it is easier than competitors in the class by 25%, the creators say. In addition, it reduced Read more…
Hardly the world’s clearest VR-1 headset from the Finnish startup Varjo will be affordable for gamers – the price tag of almost $6,000 indicates that industrial design and engineering companies will be the main buyers. But it sets the level at which everyone will have to navigate. For the first Read more…
In an ordinary Idaho hospital, doctors make a small incision, inject a microrobot inside the patient, and at the other end of the country a surgeon with a VR headset on his head takes controllers in his hands and starts the operation. This technology is being developed by the startup Read more…
Some companies do not know where and under what conditions contractors release their products. Often children or prisoners are involved in the production. Phylagen promises to reveal the biography using the microbiome – a unique combination of bacteria, fungi and viruses. Companies around the world outsource their production tasks. Most Read more…
German analysts have counted 5.6 million electric vehicles worldwide. Every second car on the electric purchased in China, and mainly domestic production. However, the American model turned out to be the best-selling EV machine. At the end of 2018, over 1.2 million electric cars and rechargeable hybrids were sold in Read more…