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iCandy: Robots--Medical, Musical, Manservants

Automatons do chores, play tunes, and talk among themselves

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Photo: MIRAIKAN: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
On 11 June, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. unveiled a 6-meter-diameter organic-light-emitting display (OLED) globe at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, in Tokyo. The Geo-Cosmos display comprises more than 10 000 OLED panels. The interactive globe can be programmed to show global climate patterns, the locations of different species, and the impact of extreme weather events such as the March 2011 tsunami that struck Japan.

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SemiconductorsTopicTypeNews

Meet the Forksheet: Imec’s In-Between Transistor

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SemiconductorsTopicTypeComputingNews

Keeping Moore’s Law Going Is Getting Complicated

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