A DAS interrogator box on either end of a transoceanic cable, installed at the cable’s landing point, sends laser light down the fiber and reads faint echoes that come back because of flaws in the ...
Governments should define measurable outcomes and fund independent evaluation, platforms should give researchers meaningful ...
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As AI and robotics continue to advance at an unprecedented pace, modern robots perceive through multimodal sensors, interpret ...
Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. Agility doesn’t have Digit 5 deployed in factories yet, but the hardware is ...
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These incidents all emerged from experiments run by Andon Labs, an AI safety company based in San Francisco that puts AI ...
Peter Bloom founded a nonprofit that provides remote communities with shortwave radios that have much better digital data rates than other options.
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