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MIT Sets Robot Collision Course

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/fastrunner.png" alt="" width="95" height="188" />When we task a robot with moving its arm from one point in space to another, it is governed by only a ...Full Article

From Weapons Production to Water Purification

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/graphene.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" />Branching out from its reputation for jet fighters and missiles, defense contractor Lockheed Martin has discovered a means for desalinating seawater that ...Full Article

Superhuman Machines Emerge from DARPA Robotics Challenge

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/chimp.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="143" />Only a few months have passed since the teams for the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced, but already many of the ...Full Article

MIT Cultivates Artificial Leaf

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/artificialleaf.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" />Nature may have long ago captured the power of the sun through photosynthesis, but, with the help of MIT, man is one ...Full Article

4D Printing: Manufacturing Intelligent Machines

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/4dprinter.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="54" />Each week, 3D printing seems to be behind yet another breaking news headline. In light of recent breakthroughs in stem cell and ...Full Article

Location and Innovation Intersect on MIT’s Manufacturing Map

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/innovation.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />In the wake President Obama calling for the creation of 15 manufacturing innovation hubs in his State of the Union Address earlier ...Full Article

Massachusetts Universities Plant Green Datacenter

<p>Opening in November of 2012, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is a collaboration effort among five Massachusetts universities to build and run some good old-fashioned HPC ...Full Article

Laser-steering Chips Shed Slight on Holograms

<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/paomitlogo.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="92" />From the holodeck to a posthumous Tupac concert, holograms have been an obsession not only of sci-fi fans, but of the general public as ...Full Article

Artificial Leaves: The Power Plants of the Future

<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_Leaf.jpeg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />Earlier this year, MIT professor Daniel Nocera announced that he'd developed an artificial leaf with ten times the photosynthetic prowess of the real thing. ...Full Article

Cartoon: DMR DIGITS

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMRdigits_Aug._3_2012_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="92" />MIT reports that its mechanical engineers are developing an ‘intelligent co-pilot’ for cars; a semiautonomous system that takes the wheel to keep ...Full Article

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