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Fundamentals of Robotic Surgery
Fundamentals of Robotic Surgery (FRS) is a multi-specialty, proficiency-based curriculum of basic technical skills for robotic-assisted surgery, developed by more than 80 experts and launched in 2014.
Funicular
A funicular, also called a cliff railway, is a cable railway for steep slopes in which two cars counterbalance each other, one ascending while the other descends.
Funko Pop!
Funko Pop! is a line of stylized vinyl collectible figures produced by Funko, Inc. of Everett, Washington, recognizable by oversized square heads, large round black eyes, and small bodies.
Funnel control
Funnel control is a model-free adaptive control method introduced in 2002 by Ilchmann, Ryan, and Sangwin that keeps tracking error within a prescribed performance funnel.
Funnel-based motion planning
Funnel-based motion planning is a robot motion planning approach that pairs maneuvers with feedback controllers and builds plans by chaining funnels, invariant sets guaranteeing safety under bounded disturbances.
FunSearch
FunSearch is a method introduced by Google DeepMind in December 2023 that pairs a large language model with an automated evaluator to search for new mathematical constructions, beating best-known results on cap sets and bin packing.
Funtouch OS
Funtouch OS is an Android-based mobile operating system developed by vivo for its smartphones in international markets, first launched in 2013 and replaced by OriginOS 6 in late 2025.
Fuqing nuclear power plant
The Fuqing nuclear power plant (福清核电站) is a six-unit nuclear plant in Fuqing, Fujian, China, best known as the demonstration site of China's Hualong One reactor design.
Furby
Furby, plural Furbies, is an electronic robotic toy resembling a furry owl-hamster hybrid, first made by Tiger Electronics in 1998 and the top-selling toy of the 1998 holiday season.
Furhat
Furhat is a social robot head, developed by Furhat Robotics, a KTH spin-off in Stockholm, that back-projects an animated 3D face onto a translucent mask to interact with people.
Furiosa AI
Furiosa AI (FuriosaAI) is a South Korean fabless semiconductor startup founded in 2017 by June Paik that designs NPU chips for AI inference, including Warboy and Renegade.
Furnace transformer
A furnace transformer is a special-purpose power transformer delivering very high current at low secondary voltage to industrial melting furnaces, most commonly electric arc furnaces.
Furnas Centrais Elétricas
Furnas Centrais Elétricas was a Brazilian electric power company created in 1957 to build Brazil's first large hydroelectric plant on the Grande River; it merged into Eletrobras in 2024.
Furnas Dam
Furnas Dam, or Usina Hidrelétrica de Furnas, is a hydroelectric dam on the Grande River in Minas Gerais, Brazil, begun in 1958 and generating 1,216 MW from eight units.
Furness Abbey
Furness Abbey is the ruin of a medieval Cistercian monastery at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, once the second richest Cistercian abbey in England until its surrender in 1537.
Furukawa Electric
Furukawa Electric (古河電気工業) is a Japanese manufacturer of optical fiber, cable, and telecommunications, energy, and automotive products, headquartered in Tokyo and founded in 1884. It made the world's first optical fiber cable in 1974.
Fuse (electrical)
A fuse, also called an electrical fuse, is an overcurrent protection device whose metal element melts under excessive current, permanently opening the circuit to prevent fire and shock.
Fuse (explosives)
A fuse, in ordnance spelled fuze, is the device on a munition that initiates its explosive charge on impact, after a set time, or near a target.
Fuse Energy
Fuse Energy is a British retail energy supplier and renewable developer founded in 2022 by former Revolut executives, supplying households in Great Britain through an app.
Fuse plug spillway
A fuse plug spillway is an auxiliary dam spillway whose erodible embankment behaves as a stable dam until a set reservoir level, then breaches at a controlled rate during extreme floods.
Fused filament fabrication
Fused filament fabrication, also known as fused deposition modeling or FDM, is an additive manufacturing process that builds objects by extruding melted thermoplastic filament layer by layer.
Fuselage
The fuselage is the main body structure of an aircraft, housing the crew, passengers, cargo, and often the engine; most modern aircraft use semi-monocoque construction.
Fushan Oil Field
The Fushan Oil Field (福山油田) is the only onshore oil field on Hainan Island, China, discovered in 1999 and operated by a CNPC subsidiary, supplying all its output within Hainan.
Fushimi Inari-taisha (伏見稲荷大社)
Fushimi Inari-taisha (伏見稲荷大社), also called Fushimi Inari, is a Shinto shrine in Kyoto, Japan, dating to 711, known for its thousands of vermillion torii gates.
Fushun CPI power station
Fushun CPI power station (国家电投抚顺发电厂) is a 600 MW coal-fired cogeneration power station in Fushun, Liaoning, China, with two 300 MW units commissioned in 2008.
Fusion 360
Fusion 360, now sold as Autodesk Fusion, is Autodesk's cloud-based product development platform combining 3D CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB design, first unveiled in 2013.
Fusion Drive
Fusion Drive is an Apple storage option combining a hard drive and 128 GB of flash storage into one volume, offered on iMacs and Mac minis from 2012.
Fusion for Energy
Fusion for Energy (F4E) is a European Union joint undertaking created in 2007 and based in Barcelona that manages Europe's contribution to the ITER fusion project.
Fusion Industry Association
The Fusion Industry Association, founded in 2018 and based in Washington, D.C., represents private fusion companies, publishes the annual Global Fusion Industry Report, and advocates for fusion regulation separate from fission.
Fusion rocket
A fusion rocket is a spacecraft propulsion concept using nuclear fusion reactions to generate thrust, with exhaust velocities far beyond chemical or fission rockets; none has flown.