Everyone talks about the AI model inside a robot. Far fewer ask who checks the circuit boards that run it. Teradyne thinks that question gets more urgent as AI leaves the data center, and on November 9, 2026 it introduced Omnyx Edge, an inline board test platform built for exactly that job.
The company, which makes automated test equipment and advanced robotics, positions the product as the edge-focused sibling of its Omnyx family, which established its AI board test capability in the data ...
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Intelligent Automation
BOT: A Vision For Commuting in the Future
The idea is to combine taxi service, real-time ride sharing and self-driving vehicles. Friendly looking vehicles named BOT will be in constant connection with the network that accepts ride-requests. They can pick up users at any location, and unlike public transport, drive them directly to the destination. If someone needs to go in similar direction, the system allows him or her to join a ride, making it an efficient way to commute. One cab could replace 4 or even more privat...
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Flexible, implantable device could block pain signals
Building on wireless technology that has the potential to interfere with pain, scientists have developed flexible, implantable devices that can activate and, in theory, block pain signals in the body and spinal cord before those signals reach the brain. The researchers, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said the implants one day may be used in different parts of the body to fight pain that doesn’t respond to other therapi...
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UV-light enabled catheter fixes heart defects without surgery
The newly designed catheter device utilizes UV light technology and can be used to place the patch in a beating heart without open heart surgery. Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Karp Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have jointly designed a specialized catheter for fixing holes in the heart using a biodegradable adhesive ...
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Penn Research Simplifies Recycling of Rare-earth Magnets
Chemical technology can instantaneously separate elements and enable a smaller scale recycler.
The latest news from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania is that they have pioneered a process that could enable the efficient recycling of two metals, neodymium and dysprosium.
These elements comprise the small, powerful magnets that are found in many high-tech devices.
Despite their ubiquity in consumer electronics, rare-earth metals are, as their name suggests, hard to come by. Mi...
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Unique 3D Pen that Draws In The Air
3Doodler is the world’s first 3D printing pen.
The pen, created by science inventors Max Bogue and Peter Dilworth is called the 3Doodler, and allows the user to draw in the air. It does not require any software but simply needs to be plugged into an electrical outlet for use.
This pen has been fed into with colorful plastic thread. The thread is then extruded as heated plastic that cools and solidifies instantly as it exits the tip. This allows solid 3D structures to be drawn on any surfac...
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