BEIJING, May 31 (Xinhua) — The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.
COMMERCIAL ROCKET
China on Friday successfully launched the CERES-1 commercial carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, sending a group of five satellites into space.
The commercial rocket blasted off from the launch site at 7:39 a.m. (Beijing Time).
VISION CHIP
A group of Chinese scientists have pioneered the creation of the world’s first brain-inspired complementary vision chip, endowing machines with a human-like visual perception capability.
The researchers from Tsinghua University drew inspiration from the principles of the human visual system and have crafted a vision-sensing technology that breaks down visual information into fundamental, primitive-based visual representations.
By integrating these primitives, the technology emulates the features of the human visual system, establishing two complementary visual perception pathways: cognition-oriented and action-oriented, respectively, according to the study published as a cover story in the journal Nature on Thursday.
QUANTUM COMPUTING
A team of Chinese scientists has accomplished the world’s largest ion trap quantum simulation with a precision of single-qubit resolution, marking a significant leap forward in the pursuit for large-scale quantum computing capabilities.
Using cryogenic monolithic ion trap technology and a two-dimensional scheme, researchers from Tsinghua University realized a stable trapping of 512 ions for the first time.
Additionally, the team has successfully conducted quantum state measurements with “single-qubit resolution” across an unprecedented 300 ions, according to the study published on Thursday in the journal Nature.
