New Patent Helps Robots Navigate Buildings With Precision
GPS is useless indoors, and that's a real problem for robots navigating warehouses, hospitals, or office buildings. Sony's new patent describes a…
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Google Patents a Robot Arm That Steers Itself by Watching Its Own Movements
Google has patented a system that lets a robot arm guide itself to an object simply by watching where its own hand…
Amazon Patent Gives Home Robots Spatial Memory to Track and Map Belongings
Imagine asking a robot to grab your keys, and it actually knows you moved them to the kitchen counter three days ago.…
Nvidia Patent Equips Robots With Memory-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning Capabilities
Nvidia has filed a patent for a training system that gives robots a kind of short-term memory, letting them factor in what…
Qualcomm Patents a Chip That Checks Its Own Safety Systems While Running
Most chips only check their safety systems at startup. Qualcomm's new patent describes a chip that keeps running those checks in the…
Qualcomm Patents a Backup Channel That Keeps Chiplets Running After a Link Failure
When one of the internal control channels inside a modern chip package breaks down, the whole data connection typically has to stop…
Qualcomm Patents an AI System That Auto-Tunes Chips Across Manufacturing Differences
No two chips come off a production line behaving exactly the same, and tuning thousands of them by hand is basically impossible.…
New Patent Refines How Camera Sensors Lock Focus on a Subject
Autofocus sounds instant, but getting it right in low light or on fast-moving subjects takes careful engineering inside each individual pixel. Samsung's…
Nvidia Patents a Method to Run Complex Text Searches on Graphics Chips Faster
GPUs are great at crunching numbers in parallel, but certain text-search patterns trip them up in ways that slow everything down. Nvidia's…
Intel Patents Memory That Erases Itself After Being Read Once
Intel is patenting a memory chip that can be told to forget data the moment it's been read. It's a hardware-level take…
Microsoft Patents a Built-In Circuit That Tests Every Individual Light Source in a Display
Testing whether every tiny pixel in a micro-LED display works correctly is a genuine headache for manufacturers. Microsoft's latest patent describes a…
Samsung Patents a System That Recalibrates Your Phone's Altitude Sensor After You Drop It
Drop your phone and the barometric pressure sensor inside it can shift out of calibration feeding bad altitude data to every app…
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