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Fab new laser nano-fabrication technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Laser interference lithography can produce very high-resolution nano-scale surface patterns at low cost, and now European researchers have made important breakthroughs in the area.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanospheres stretch limits of hard disk storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new magnetic recording medium made up of tiny nanospheres has been devised by European researchers. The technology may lead to hard disks able to store more than a thousand billion bits ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Video camera that records at the speed of thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers who created an ultra-fast, extremely high-resolution video camera have enabled dozens of medical applications, including one scenario that can record 'thought' processes travelling along ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Robots learning from experience (w/ Video)

Software that enables robots to move objects about a room, building up ever-more knowledge about their environment, is an important step forward in artificial intelligence.

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Robot, object, action!

Robotic demonstrators developed by European researchers produce compelling evidence that ‘thinking-by-doing’ is the machine cognition paradigm of the future. Robots act on objects and teach themselves ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Virtual reality you can reach out and touch

A team of European researchers has "virtually" teleported real objects through cyberspace, touched things in virtual reality and even felt the movements of a virtual dance partner.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- What started out as 'blue-sky' thinking by a group of European researchers could ultimately lead to the commercial mass production of a new generation of optoelectronic components for devices ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Single photons step into the slow light

(PhysOrg.com) -- European experts in nanotechnology, optoelectronics and quantum physics have advanced the generation, detection and manipulation of single photons in semiconductors. Their discoveries bring ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tasty new standards for systems-on-chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed breakthrough standards that will let microchip designers integrate more complex circuits more easily. It will mean a faster design process, more energy ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bio-inspired computer networks self-organise and learn

(PhysOrg.com) -- Powerful computers made up of physically separate modules, self-organising networks, and computing inspired by biological systems are three hot research topics coming together in one European ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Machine-learning revolutionises software development

(PhysOrg.com) -- Automation technology has revolutionised the fine-tuning needed to maximise software performance on devices such as mobile phones.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Designer optoelectronics - quantum mechanics for new materials

European researchers have combined computer modelling of quantum mechanics and precision fabrication processes to create novel transparent conductive oxides made to order for a wide range of scientific and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Complex software systems -- heal thyself

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software underlies modern life, keeping everything from mobile phone networks functioning to planes in the air, but ensuring increasingly complex systems stay free of faults has become an ...

Technology / Software

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9

Robots use their hands to 'think'

Action-centred cognition is a groundbreaking concept in robotics where robots learn to 'think' in terms of what actions they can perform on an object. This new trend in cognition theory opens exciting new ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Adaptive software -- a late bloomer

Adaptive software is the largely unfulfilled promise of mobile technology, but now a new platform developed by European researchers promises to finally deliver software that reconfigures itself depending on ...

Technology / Software

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast