Electronic Design

GaN Powers Up High-Efficiency Motor Joints in Humanoid Robots

Texas Instruments is developing GaN power devices to enable more compact and efficient motor joints for humanoid robots.
IEEE

PADLoC: LiDAR-Based Deep Loop Closure Detection and Registration Using Panoptic Attention

Abstract: A key component of graph-based SLAM systems is the ability to detect loop closures in a trajectory to reduce the drift accumulated over time from the odometry. Most LiDAR-based methods ...
KUTV

Utah prison program helps inmates rebuild lives while serving time

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Hundreds of inmates build license plates, furniture and print materials for government agencies inside the Utah State Prison while gaining job skills aimed at reducing repeat ...
Harvard Business Review

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and ...
This is Money

Britain's about to BOOM and the signs we've escaped the doom-loop are everywhere, says ALEX BRUMMER

Is Britain on the cusp of a scientific and technological revolution? Simon Carter, the boss of the property giant ­British Land, appears to believe that it is. The company surprised the commercial ...