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The most impressive engineering feats in and around AI, explained

Surgical robots are going solo, one stitch at a time

Surgical Robotics

Surgical robots are going solo, one stitch at a time

A Johns Hopkins robot that learned from operating-room video has performed the delicate heart of a gallbladder removal by itself, eight times out of eight, on tissue that could not bleed

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Why cooling now decides how fast a chip can run

Materials

Why cooling now decides how fast a chip can run

By treating heat as something to route rather than merely resist, through vapour chambers, engineered interfaces and exotic materials, thermal engineers have made cooling the quiet enabling craft that decides how hard any modern chip is allowed to run

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