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Combustion powers bug-sized robots to leap, lift and race

Call it the big bang for bug-sized robots. Cornell engineers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap its electric-driven competitors.

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Qubit control: Engineers push to make quantum practical

Researchers in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are incorporating elements of physics, circuit design, photonics, systems architecture, information theory and other fields to make quantum devices both practical and scalable.

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