Interesting Engineering

Boston Dynamics’ Aya Durbin on making humanoid robots industrial-ready

Boston Dynamics product lead Aya Durbin discusses Atlas, industrial humanoid robots, and what it takes to make humanoids ...
eLife

DendroTweaks, an interactive approach for unraveling dendritic dynamics

An interactive toolbox for standardizing, validating, simulating, reducing, and exploring detailed biophysical models that can be used to reveal how morpho-electric properties map to dendritic and ...
Science Daily

Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a simulation after all

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...
Futurism

Physicists Say They’ve Proven Whether We’re Living in a Simulation

The idea that we’re living inside a simulation, as popularized by “The Matrix” franchise, has piqued the interest of scientists for decades. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in a highly ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Sverdrup, H., Olafsdottir, A. H., Ragnarsdottir, K. V., Koca, D., & Lorenz, U. (2018). The WORLD7 Integrated System Dynamics Model: Examples of Results from Simulations. In

ABSTRACT: Prevailing economic theory is based on many hypotheses which have no physical science basis. The physical information missing from current practice currently undermines the successful ...
GitHub

simscape/Modeling-Power-Electronics-Systems-in-Simscape

In this example, we demonstrate how to model power electronics devices that perform current control using MathWorks products, focusing on: The modeling style introduced in this example is not a ...
C&EN

Clustering and Analyzing Ensembles of Residue Interaction Networks from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Network methods and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become essential tools ...
The Robot Report

Boston Dynamics and TRI use large behavior models to train Atlas humanoid

To be useful, humanoid robots will need to be competent at many tasks, according to Boston Dynamics. They must be able to manipulate a diverse range of objects, from small, delicate objects to large, ...
IEEE

Dynamic Simulation and Optimization Study Based on Archimedean Solenoidal Motion and Collision Detection Models

Abstract: In this paper, the motion characteristics of the traditional folk dance "bench dragon" are taken as an example, and tools from several mathematical fields such as geometry, kinematics, ...
TechSpot

Using GPU cores instead of CPUs provides a massive boost to computational speed

In context: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) exploits the power of computer technology to study and predict how fluids behave under simulated conditions. Supercomputers can do wonders with CFD ...
C&EN

Teacups, a Python Package for the Simulation of Time-Resolved EPR Spectra of Spin-Polarized Multi-Spin Systems

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Spin-polarized magnetic systems, generated by the interaction of photoactive molecules ...