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WishList Tech we hope hits the public sector
Reusable N95 protection
More than six months into the COVID-19 crisis, personal protective equipment is still in dangerously short supply. The Open
Standard Respirator project could
help change that with a modular, reusable mask that is designed for rapid and distributed production scaling. The OSR Model
1 uses a replaceable, single-use filter disk
made of nonproprietary materials. It has not yet been certified by the
Food and Drug Administration,
but it aims to serve
as an alternative to
N95 respirator masks.
Scalable quantum computing
“Artificial atoms” and photonic circuitry are being used to create a 128-qubit system — the largest chip
of its type for quantum computing. MIT researchers created the “atoms” from atomic-scale defects in vanishingly thin slices
of diamond and say the technique offers a viable way to scale up the production of quantum processors.
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Robots that
really listen
The Army Research Laboratory wants to make it easier for warfighters
to interact with robotic systems in the field with bidirectional, conversational artificial intelligence.
The Joint Understanding and Dialogue Interface
is designed for tasks in
the physical world where data is sparse and there
is little or no reliable cloud connectivity. It can also learn a task with only a few hundred training examples — an order of magnitude less than Alexa and Siri required.
IMAGE CREDITS: ARMY RESEARCH LAB, MIT, OPEN STANDARD RESPIRATOR