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Diamonds aren’t forever: first quantum bridge created

Editorial Team Oct 17, 2016

For the first time on a single chip all the components needed to create a quantum bridge to link quantum computers together has been demonstrated by Sandia researchers, all be forcefully embedding two silicon atoms in a diamond matrix.…

Featured

Nuclear reactor winds down and defines legacy

Editorial Team Oct 17, 2016

They are here to make fusion energy a reality. Gathering the data that will inform the design of a new fusion reactor (a device that could solve all energy problems), is Pablo Rodriguez Fernandez hunched over a computer in the control room…

Automotive

Software geared to autonomous vehicle testing

Editorial Team Oct 17, 2016

The provider of platform-based systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, NI, has released VeriStand 2016, the latest version of its software used by embedded software test engineers…

Trends

MPM products to exhibit for first time in US

Editorial Team Oct 17, 2016

Once again TMD Technologies (TMD), West London based design and manufacturing company, will be exhibiting at the AOC Symposium in Washington D.C. at the end of November. On Stand 116, TMD will be showing a representative selection of its…

Production

MB Allen to present research at the SMTA Space Coast Expo

Editorial Team Oct 17, 2016

Plans to exhibit at the SMTA Space Coast Expo and Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Thursday, November 17th, 2016 at the Melbourne Auditorium in FL have been announced by KIC. MB (Marybeth) Allen will present “Optimization of the Reflow…

Optoelectronics

100G services available to growing Pittsburgh tech scene

Editorial Team Oct 17, 2016

Telia Carrier has expanded its partnership with 365 Data Centers, by now offering 100G services to customers in 365’s Pittsburgh edge facility via Telia Carrier’s award-winning, top-two ranked IP backbone. The need for high-bandwidth…

Consumer

Robot works up a sweat doing pushups

Editorial Team Oct 17, 2016

Meet Kengoro, a humanoid robot. A video starts with a rather surprising sight of a robot doing what looks like an expert floor exercise. You see the robot during its workout, using the strength of his hands and flexible, strong arms.…

A&D

Spacecraft on course for the Red Planet

Editorial Team Oct 17, 2016

European-Russian spacecraft were on course for Mars Monday after crucial deep-space manoeuvres in preparation for a daring mission to find evidence of life on the Red Planet. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mothership despatched the tiny…

Communications

Highly stretchable optical fiber could be implanted in the body

Editorial Team Oct 17, 2016

Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a biocompatible and highly stretchable optical fiber made from hydrogel—an elastic, rubbery material composed mostly of water. The fiber, which is as bendable as a rope of…

Consumer

Robots are coming to Cincinnati

Editorial Team Oct 14, 2016

Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the leading robotics and automation trade group in North America, is hosting two major events in Cincinnati, OH next week. The 28th National Robot Safety Conference will be held October 17th to 19th,…