D-Wave, the Canadian quantum computing company, today announced that it is giving anyone who is working on responses to the COVID-19 free access to its Leap 2 quantum computing cloud service. The offe
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This is pretty cool: a team of researchers at Japan's <a href="http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/english/">Tohoku Universit
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This is one of the coolest <a href="http://search.beta.techcrunch.com/query.php?s=rescue+robot">rescue robots</a> I've ev
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Electric cars have one major problem: Especially in the case of long drives, owners have to make too many stops to ch
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In cooperation with private businesses, Japanese students from various universities have developed a total of fou
Last year’s Grand Prize winning robot There should be no doubt that Japan is the world’s leading nation when it comes to the production and promotion of robots of all kinds. Each year, Nip
The University of Tohoku, located in Northern Japan, developed a hose-like robot specialized in rescuing victims in collapsed buildings. The robot is equipped with a camera at its tip and is able to s
A research team from the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials of prestigious Tohoku University in Northern Japan announced [JP, PDF] it has found a way to multiply the amount