Robotics Unlimited created the six-legged OutRunner robot, one of the fasted electronic devices of the world. It can travel up to 20 miles per hour on level ground and the batteries are active for two full hours. This robot can travel over hills and rough terrain.
The Los Angeles-based company Heliogen, founded by serial entrepreneur and inventor Bill Gross, sustained by investors including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, announced that it developed a way to create concentrated solar energy at temperatures hot enough to replace fossil fuels in industrial processes.
The Internet turned 25 years old. His inventor, the London born computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, speaking on the anniversary, called for a digital bill of rights to ensure internet freedom.
The Robert N. Noyce Award was given now to the American engineer Robert Dennard for its fundamental invention made in 1956: the single-cell dynamic random access memory chip (or DRAM), a kind of semiconductor memory that stores data while the power is turned on.