by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 15, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Record-setting Thermal Conductivity Improves on Metals’ Electron-Based Conductivity, Helping Smaller Devices Dump Heat Smaller, faster devices are having more and more trouble dumping the heat they generate. Copper has long been the “gold standard” for conducting heat...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 10, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Moiré superlattices make use of the phenomenon the moiré pattern, in which the wave interference of two similar patterns create new, often mesmerizing and undulating patterns. Wigner Crystals’ Behavior Charted and Compared with Theory, Providing New Tool for Studying...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 11, 2026 | Bridges-2, Keystone AI, NAIRR, Neocortex, News, Press release
Bridges-2 PSC received two supplemental funding grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) extending the operation of its flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer for a total additional two years. These awards are funding the national-capacity computing resource to...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 7, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
World2Rules Uses Robotics Institute’s Amelia-42 Dataset to Learn Rules for Identifying Collision Risks that Humans Can Understand In managing airport traffic, small errors can cause catastrophe. Today at a NASA symposium in Los Angeles, a group from the CMU Robotics...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 9, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Mass casualty incidents can rapidly overwhelm rescuers. Advances in robotic coordination may help human rescuers more effectively use the triage process to prioritize who to help first. CMU Team Responds to $7-Million DARPA Challenge with Robot-Human Team, Guided by...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 13, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Octopuses’ arms can move in amazingly complex ways — and may be a better model than human arms for robots. Virtual Octopus Arm Shows Complex Movements Can Be Governed by Surprisingly Simple Programming While controlling the simple joints of a robot in human shape is...
