Items tagged with Harvard

by Brittany Goetting - Fri, May 20, 2016

Harvard Researchers Developing Bee Drone That Uses Insect Tactics To Conserve Battery Life

Soon the expression “I wish I could have been a fly on the wall” will be more than just an idiom. A team of Harvard scientists is building a bee-inspired micro aerial vehicle (MAV) robot. The robot is intended for “basically any situation where you want to have low cost and distributed sensing [that] would be too... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 14, 2015

NVIDIA Chief Jen-Hsun Huang Gets Nod From Harvard As One Of World's Top CEOs

We have a lot of respect for Jen-Hsun Huang, the fiery boss of NVIDIA who once famously told analysts that the GPU maker was going to "open a can of whoop ass" on Intel, which at the time was talking a big game about Nehalem and Larrabee. He's done some wonderful things at NVIDIA, the company he co-founded over two... Read more...

by Rob Williams - Fri, Aug 28, 2015

Pentagon Taps Apple, Boeing And Harvard To Devise Flexible Wearables For Soldiers

For regular consumers, wearable tech can prove to be a boon for a multitude of reasons - it could improve our fitness and in some cases, increase our productivity. That being the case, it's no secret that the same could really prove useful when put into action in military situations. This is something the Pentagon has... Read more...

by Kory Kessel - Thu, Jun 04, 2015

$500 Million Giant Magellan Telescope Approved For Assembly

The consortium governing the planning and construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope — which will be the worlds largest optical telescope when completed — has approved its $500 million assembly phase, which is roughly half of the project's $1 billion overall budget. The massive celestial-gazing instrument and its support facility will be Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Thu, Jun 20, 2013

First 3D-Printed Battery Just 1mm Wide

Speaking of 3D printing, researchers at Harvard University have developed a 3D-printable battery that’s just 1mm wide; the tiny component will ostensibly be used to power computers and even robotic drones of commensurate size, from hearing aids to the (frankly, quite terrifying-sounding) Robobees that have also been developed at the... Read more...