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Wheelchair users with severe disabilities can often navigate tight spaces better than most robotic systems can. A wave of new smart-wheelchair research, including findings presented in Anaheim, Calif., earlier this month, is now testing whether AI-powered systems can, or...

The following is a joint announcement from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Schwarzman College...

Meta wants creators to "rediscover" Facebook, but a social media expert says viewers will not follow. Source link

A growing number of Nigerian companies are turning to kit-based assembly to bring electric vehicles to market in Africa. Lagos-based Saglev Micromobility Nigeria recently partnered with Dongfeng Motor Corporation, in Wuhan, China, to assemble 18-seat electric passenger vans from...

One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The surgeon was experienced, but he had...

Hydrogen power never found a home in your car, but it might finally have its moment inside a drone. Researchers in Norway have built a heavy-lift drone that runs on hydrogen, ditching batteries for a fuel cell to tackle...

Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize, considered the Nobel prize of mathematics, for a groundbreaking proof which...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was years ahead of the market when he pushed the company to start tinkering with building AI-specific chips back in 2010, more than a decade before the current buzz around AI. A similar move in...

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