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Robot Learns To Walk Despite Faults And Unexpected Disturbances During Operation
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (483+ words) Validation experiments, conducted both in simulation and with the physical robot on tasks including walking on flat surfaces and descending stairs, confirm the effectiveness of TOLEBI. Scientifically, the innovation lies in training a joint status estimator online, based on a…...
Researchers Reveal 24.2% Efficient Hexagonal Nanowire MAPbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (489+ words) Quantum Zeitgeist is a leading independent news source covering quantum computing breakthroughs, industry developments, and research advances. Established in 2018, we provide daily analysis of quantum technology's impact on computing, cryptography, and scientific innovation. Researchers are striving to improve perovskite solar…...
Researchers Demonstrate Reconfigurable Exciton-Polariton Canalization In Non-Hyperbolic CsPbBr3 Perovskite
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (483+ words) Researchers have demonstrated a new method to precisely steer light-matter particles called polaritons within a perovskite crystal, achieving over twentyfold improvement in beam direction control and switching between focused and diverging beams by simply altering the size of the light…...
Fire Framework Achieves Battery Interface Accuracy With Just 10% Data Needed
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (876+ words) Researchers have developed a new machine-learning framework, FIRE, that creates highly accurate models of battery interfaces using only a tenth of the data required by current methods, significantly improving our ability to simulate and design better solid-state batteries. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-62-19.jpg Accurate…...
Drive-Jepa Achieves Multimodal Driving With Video Pretraining And Single Trajectories
1+ week, 1+ day ago (944+ words) Researchers have developed Drive-JEPA, a new autonomous driving system utilising video prediction and simulated trajectories that achieves record-breaking performance in navigating complex virtual environments without relying on traditional perception methods. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-43-20.jpg Researchers are tackling the challenge of improving autonomous driving…...
Physics-Informed Hybrid Dispatching Achieves Scalable Renewable Power System Optimisation
1+ week, 4+ day ago (651+ words) Physics-Informed Hybrid Dispatching Achieves Scalable Renewable Power System Optimisation'Quantum Zeitgeist Scientists are tackling the increasing complexities of integrating renewable energy sources into large-scale power grids, a challenge exacerbated by inherent unpredictability and non-convexity. Fu Zhang and Yuming Zhao, from Lanzhou…...
Nova 2.0 Lite Achieves Robust Safety Evaluation Under 1M Token FMSF
1+ week, 4+ day ago (582+ words) Nova 2.0 Lite Achieves Robust Safety Evaluation Under 1M Token FMSF'Quantum Zeitgeist Nova 2.0 Lite, CBRN Risk Profile Evaluation Scientists at Amazon have unveiled a comprehensive safety evaluation of Nova 2.0 Lite, a powerful new multimodal foundation model capable of processing text, images, and…...
Researchers Achieve Size-Dependent Dielectric Permittivity Reconstruction For CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystals
1+ week, 6+ day ago (414+ words) Researchers have developed a method to accurately determine the optical properties of individual perovskite nanocrystals by analysing their light absorption, paving the way for more efficient photonic devices. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-23T213906.801.jpg PNC permittivity from absorbance via effective medium theory The core innovation…...
QCraft Scales Autonomous Driving To 1M+ Vehicles With New NOA Solution
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (607+ words) QCraft announced the mass production and delivery of its one-chip end-to-end Urban Navigation on Autopilot (NOA) solution, now installed in over one million passenger vehicles across 23 models. The company highlighted this as a breakthrough in autonomous driving, signaling a critical…...
Transmode-LLM Achieves 12.50% Improvement In Travel Mode Prediction Accuracy
2+ week, 3+ day ago (974+ words) Quantum Zeitgeist is a leading independent news source covering quantum computing breakthroughs, industry developments, and research advances. Established in 2018, we provide daily analysis of quantum technology's impact on computing, cryptography, and scientific innovation. Accurately modelling travel behaviour remains a crucial…...