Researchers develop mechanical memory using slap-bracelet-like structures for scalable bit addressing
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Summary
Researchers led by Pedro Reis at EPFL and Martin van Hecke at AMOLF have developed a practical method for writing mechanical bits using structures that resemble children's slap bracelets. By placing these structures on a variably spinning turntable, they created a scalable way to address individual bits of mechanical memory. The technique, published in Science, could help bridge the gap between mechanical mechanisms (brawn) and electronics (brains) by enabling mechanical information storage without resetting each bit individually.
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· 5 pulledIn today's technologies, mechanical mechanisms generally provide the brawn while electronics supplies the brains.
This is partly because it is challenging to write information into mechanical memories without resetting each bit individually.
However, that could change as researchers led by Pedro Reis at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and Martin van Hecke at AMOLF in the Netherlands have now found a practical means of writing mechanical bits.
Their technique, which they describe in Science, uses structures that resemble children's slap bracelets.
Placing the structures on a variably spinning turntable creates a scalable way of addressing single bits of memory
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