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Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Thursday, January 9, 2025

BMW Sheds Weight for the New i3

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/BMW_i3.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" border="0" />As BMW starts to make plans for their i3 electric city car, the word on every designer's mind is “efficiency.” While ...Full Article

U.S. Puts Top Supercomputer up for Rent

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Vulcan_LLNL.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />In an effort to make the country more competitive, the federal government has made one of the country’s most powerful supercomputers ...Full Article

ATLAS: The Robot with the World on its Shoulders

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/ATLAS.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />Despite the diversity of entries in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, there is one image that event followers are now well-familiar with: ...Full Article

Britain’s Roads to See Driverless Cars This Year

<img style="float: left;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Sheriff_Highway_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1305325.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />For the very first time, Britain is allowing self-driving cars to be tested on their public roads. The testing that will ...Full Article

Adding the Next Layer to Additive Manufacturing

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/GE3dmodel.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />Additive manufacturing has begun to generate real excitement within the larger manufacturing community. For a long time in many industrial sectors, ...Full Article

Robotic Snakes Slither to the Rescue

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/CMUsnake.png" alt="" width="95" height="70" border="0" />While participants in the DARPA Robotics Challenge are hard at work designing a robot that can one day replace human first ...Full Article

Aerojet Rocketdyne Successfully Tests First 3D-Printed Rocket Part

<img style="float: left;" src="http://www.aviationweek.com/media/images/fullsize/Space/NASA/SLS-NASA.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="59" border="0" />In collaboration with Aerojet Rocketdyne, NASA recently created and tested a rocket engine injector made entirely through 3D printing. Their successful ...Full Article

NASA Teams up with TACC to Simulate Space Junk

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/NASALDEF.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="62" border="0" />While debris might seem innocuous enough to those grounded on Earth, even pebble-sized junk in orbit poses a serious problem that ...Full Article

Electric Air Jets Cut Down on Aircraft Drag

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/790px-Airplane_(3423766012).jpg" alt="" width="95" height="72" border="0" />At GE, engineers have been working on a new technology that will allow passengers to have a much more comfortable flight. ...Full Article

NC State Breakthrough Could Bring 3D-Printed Electronics

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/ncsu3dprinting.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="127" border="0" />Although many would like to have a 3D printer sitting around their office to help with a prototype or perhaps just ...Full Article