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Bengaluru's Vimag Labs Secures Fifth Patent for Rare-Earth-Free EV Motor Vimag Labs, a Bengaluru-based deep-tech startup, secured its fifth Indian patent on July 8 for an electric motor that operates without rare-earth permanent magnets, according to multiple industry reports. The patent, titled "A Robust Rotating Transformer Excited Synchronous Motor and Its Control," covers the core architecture of the company's Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM) platform,… |
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Bengaluru's QpiAI Open-Sources Its Quantum SDK QpiAI, described as a full-stack quantum computing company based in Bengaluru, India, has released the QpiAI Quantum SDK as open-source software, available at github.com/qpiai/quantum-sdk. The toolkit gives developers, researchers, and startups a way to build and run quantum algorithms and connect their workflows to QpiAI's 8-qubit and 25-qubit quantum computers through QpiAI-QCloud. The SDK… |
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Infineon Opens World's Largest Plant for Power Semiconductors Infineon Technologies AG opened its Smart Power Fab in Dresden on July 2, 2026, several months ahead of schedule, according to the company. The plant represents an investment of five billion euros, the largest single investment in Infineon's history, and creates 1,000 new direct jobs. The facility doubles Infineon's manufacturing capacity at the Dresden site, making it the world's largest… |
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Built a Portable AR Sandbox Using an ESP32 and a ToF Sensor If you've ever visited a science museum, an exhibition, or stumbled across a viral video online, you've probably seen those interactive sandboxes where creating a mountain with your hand instantly turns it into a colorful topographical map. Independent creator UncleStem has now recreated that experience in a much more compact and affordable form. By combining a $20… |
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Thumb-Sized Smart Button Packs Years of Battery Life with Matter Connectivity A tiny smart button measuring just 32 millimeters in diameter is demonstrating how modern IoT hardware can deliver powerful functionality in a miniature package. At its core is the Nordic nRF54L15 chipset, a next-generation wireless microcontroller designed for ultra-low-power embedded applications. The board supports Bluetooth Low Energy and Matter over Thread,… |
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Google's Gemma 4 E2B Runs Locally on Robot Duck Google For Developers recently came up with a practical demonstration of their multimodal AI model, Gemma 4 E2B, running entirely on-device on two robotic ducks built by independent maker Antoine Pirrone. The demo is called “Gemma Playground: Robot Duck” as the goal of it is to exhibit the capabilities of Gemma with the help of the robot ducks as a demonstration… |
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The Future of Screens Might Be a Contact Lens What if the next generation of wearable technology doesn't sit in your pocket or on your face, but directly on your eye? Dubai-based startup XPANCEO has already developed over 28 working prototypes of smart contact lens and recently showcased five of them at the MWC 2026 event. These futuristic lenses integrate advanced micro-displays, holographic optics, highly sensitive biosensors, and built… |
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Qorvo® Advances X-Band Radar Performance with a More Efficient and Sensitive Compact Front-End Module GREENSBORO, N.C., June 9, 2026 – Qorvo ® (Nasdaq: QRVO), a leading global provider of connectivity and power solutions, today introduced an X-band radar front- end solution that enables defense system designers to achieve higher performance without increasing size, weight or prime power. Designed for modern phased array and multifunction sensors, the… |
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Open-Source MoCap Camera Rivals Hollywood Tech The YouTube creator Matt has developed an impressive open-source motion capture (MoCap) camera system that delivers professional-level 3D tracking at a much lower cost than existing commercial solutions. The project uses 16 custom-built infrared cameras that work together to capture and process more than four billion pixels every second. These cameras can track… |
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Dhruva Space Gets ₹105 Crore Government Grant for Mass-Producible Satellites Hyderabad-based Dhruva Space has received INR 105 crores from the Government of India's Research, Development & Innovation Fund (RDIF) to develop Project Garud, a 500 kg-class communications satellite platform intended for constellation-scale deployment. The grant was formalised on 13 May 2026 in New Delhi, during the inaugural Enterprise Technology Evaluation agreement signing and first… |
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Building Rocky From Project Hail Mary in Real Life Leviathan Engineering, a tech-focused YouTube channel, has recreated Rocky from Project Hail Mary as a real AI-powered robot by combining mechanical design, on-device speech recognition, and modern AI that responds in real time. The robot runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 (4GB RAM) and uses 10 MG996R servo motors for movement. A major part of what makes this build impressive is the software… |
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FalCAN Probe Simplifying CAN Bus, UART, and RS-485 Debugging for Engineers The FalCAN Probe is an open-source communication and debugging tool created by Anders B. Nielsen to simplify testing in automotive electronics, industrial automation, and embedded systems. It works as a powerful bridge between a computer and hardware devices using popular communication protocols such as UART, CAN Bus, RS-422, and RS-485. These protocols are widely used in car diagnostics, CNC… |
