You no longer need to contend with crowds, parking, lousy food, or noise to visit the halls of a conference center. EXPO21XX has created an online exhibition hall to showcase projects in more than 100 university robotics labs from around the world.
It’s finicky, diffident, and loves fish. OK, not really, but there’s a project at the University of Michigan to biologically model a computer after a feline brain. "A cat can recognize a face faster and more efficiently than a supercomputer."
The memristor — the so-called “missing link of electronics” memory technology that can change its resistance in varying levels — has been around on paper for nearly 40 years.