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Robotics Aug 5, 2018

Chip labour: Robots replace waiters in China restaurant

The little robotic waiter wheels up to the table, raises its glass lid to reveal a steaming plate of local Shanghai-style crayfish and announces in low, mechanical tones, "Enjoy your meal."

Nanophysics Aug 2, 2018

'Tornado' lab-on-a-chip technology with micro tweezers to detect dangerous viruses, biological contaminants

Purdue University researchers have developed a new class of optical nanotweezers that can trap and detect biomolecules, viruses and DNA more rapidly. The technology can also use light to promptly detect cancer or improve ...

Analytical Chemistry Aug 1, 2018

Placenta barrier-on-a-chip could lead to better understanding of premature births

More than one in 10 babies worldwide are born prematurely, according to the World Health Organization. Now scientists report in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering that they have developed an organ-on-a-chip that could ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 1, 2018

On-chip optical filter processes wide range of light wavelengths

MIT researchers have designed an optical filter on a chip that can process optical signals from across an extremely wide spectrum of light at once, something never before available to integrated optics systems that process ...

Optics & Photonics Jul 27, 2018

Chip lights up optical neural network demo

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely across a miniature brain-like grid, showcasing a potential new design for neural ...

General Physics Jul 5, 2018

Heat-conducting crystals could help computer chips keep their cool

If your laptop or cell phone starts to feel warm after playing hours of video games or running too many apps at one time, those devices are actually doing their job.

Computer Sciences Jun 29, 2018

Unlocking the promise of approximate computing for on-chip AI acceleration

Recent advances in deep learning and exponential growth in the use of machine learning across application domains have made AI acceleration critically important. IBM Research has been building a pipeline of AI hardware accelerators ...

Nanophysics Jun 26, 2018

Faster, more precise lab-on-a-chip holds promise of early cancer diagnosis

An award-winning Vanderbilt University researcher used plasmonics to develop a new kind of nanotweezers that can rapidly trap and detect molecules, viruses and DNA – a device transformative for medicine that also has color ...

Business Jun 1, 2018

Toshiba completes $21 bn sale of chip unit

Embattled conglomerate Toshiba on Friday completed the $21 billion sale of its prized chip unit to an investment consortium, a move seen as crucial to keeping the Japanese firm afloat.

Optics & Photonics May 23, 2018

First chip-scale broadband optical system that can sense molecules in the mid-IR

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have demonstrated, for the first time, a chip-based dual-comb spectrometer in the mid-infrared range, that requires no moving parts and can acquire spectra in less than 2 microseconds. ...

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