Scientists at the University of Tokyo, led by Dr. Kento Kawaharazuka, have taken a novel approach to this problem. Instead of creating a fully autonomous vehicle, they’ve developed a robot that can drive a regular car.
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‘Artificial atoms’ help achieve secure real-world quantum communication
This approach leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to generate random keys that are impossible to crack.
To guard against cyberattacks in space, researchers ask “what if?” | Ars Technica
Because space is so remote and hard to access, if someone wanted to attack a space system, they would likely need to do it through a cyberattack. Space systems are particularly attractive targets because their hardware cannot be easily upgraded once launched, and this insecurity worsens over time. As complex systems, they can have long supply chains, and more links in the chain increase the chance of vulnerabilities. Major space projects are also challenged to keep up with best practices over the decade or more needed to build them.
Space Force Adds Two New Launch Providers
All told, there are now a dozen companies in approved for OSP-4: Blue Origin, Stoke Space, ABL Space Systems, Aevum, Astra, Firefly Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Relativity Space, Rocket Lab, SpaceX, United Launch Alliance (ULA), and X-Bow.
Teen robotics enthusiasts make world’s smallest, cheapest network switch
A great example of students using innovation to meet a real-world need. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/worlds-smallest-cheapest-network-switch
Researchers wonder what if you just put a robot in the driver’s seat instead of automating the car?
In this new effort, the research team wondered if it might not be easier and cheaper simply to build a robot that can be taught how to drive a car and put it in the driver’s seat of a normal vehicle.
Voyager 1 Is Back! NASA Spacecraft Safely Resumes All Science Observations | Scientific American
After more than six months of long-distance troubleshooting—Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth, and any signal takes more than 22.5 hours to travel from our planet to the spacecraft—mission personnel have finally coaxed Voyager 1 to gather and send home data with all its remaining science instruments, according to a NASA statement.
The world’s largest 3D printer is building cozy homes from wood | CNN
The new printer can produce objects as large as 96 feet long by 32 feet wide by 18 feet high and can print up to 500 pounds per hour.
Baltic states join with Norway, Finland and Poland to build ‘drone wall’ against Russia | Fox News
The Baltic states announced plans alongside Norway, Finland and Poland to construct a “drone wall” along their shared borders with Russia on Sunday.
Game-changer wireless tech that charges flying drones gets US backing
The technology, known as far-field wireless power transfer or power beaming, would allow drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to refuel without needing to land at power plants.