Category Critical & Emerging Technologies

DARPA’s ELM developing Living Structural Materials for self growing & self repairable smart buildings and smart military bases on demand

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The cities of today are built with concrete and steel between they are responsible for as much as a tenth of worldwide carbon emissions. Before they ever reach a construction site, both steel and concrete must be processed at very…...

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Next Robot revolution are robots with smart skin that can touch and feel

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Robots have already become an indispensable part of our lives. Robots have revolutionized auto manufacturing, making plants safer and products more reliable — and reducing the number of people involved in the process. However, even inside a modern auto plant,…...

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Militaries develop Morphing military Wings and Aircrafts to provide optimal performance in reconnaissance to bombing missions

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The design of aerodynamic airfoils is optimized for certain conditions. For instance, the shape of the wings of fixed-wing aircrafts are designed and optimized for a certain flight condition (in terms of altitude, speed, aircraft weight, etc.). However, these flight…...

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Augmented reality displays moving towards smart contact lenses to enable vision of invisible computing

Smart glasses refer to wearable computing devices that add information to what the user sees. These devices function in a way similar to mobile phones and tablets and have the ability of processing and implementing various programs and applications. A…...

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Micro and Nano UAVs technologies enable them to be employed with armies in battlefield

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Militaries are now employing Micro, Mini & Nano UAVs into their operations. They provide situational awareness to a small group of soldiers by flying several stories above them for 10-20 minutes at a time before placed back into a pocket…...

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Advances in AI Assistants enabling US army to develop cognitive agents helping Soldiers Deal with Information Overload

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Virtual assistants are the cutting edge of end user interaction, thanks to endless set of capabilities across multiple services. Today, we can ask virtual assistants like Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google Now to perform simple tasks like, “What’s the weather”,…...

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Verification of Quantum computers is significant challenge on the road to scalable quantum computing technology.

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Quantum chips perform computations using quantum bits, called “qubits,” that can represent the two states corresponding to classic binary bits — a 0 or 1 — or a “quantum superposition” of both states simultaneously. The unique superposition state can enable…...

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Plant Nanobionics or ePlants aim to turn plants into sensors detecting explosives, warn of pollutants and environmental conditions such as drought

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Plant Nanobionics seeks to use  designed nanoparticles to interface directly with plant cells and organelles to augment plant functions, as well as to introduce non-native functionalities. The broader vision is to create a wide array of wild-type plants,  capable of…...

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Dedicated Hardware for Quantum Machine Learning to usher new era in AI by exponential speedup of applications

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Quantum computing and quantum information processing is expected to have immense impact by performing tasks too hard for even the most powerful conventional supercomputer and have a host of specific applications, from code-breaking and cyber security to medical diagnostics, big…...

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Embedded eSIM and iSIM are breakthrough IoT connectivity technologies for authenticating subscribers and devices on mobile networks

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Strong IoT device authentication is required to ensure connected devices on the IoT can be trusted to be what they purport to be. Consequently, each IoT device needs a unique identity that can be authenticated when the device attempts to…...

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