if the timing is correct the braking energy of one axis can be used as energy for another in the same way as a regenerative braking system reducing energy usage. his system is used currently in the automotive chip-making printing and food industries.
#Students hope their ship inspection robot will significantly reduce dry-dock time for maritime transport industry,
which are filled with seawater to compensate for weight changes as cargo is loaded and unloaded. Located between the outer hull and the cargo holds
and consisting of beams and stiffeners separated by bulkheads ballast tanks form much of a ship#s supporting structure.
I-profiles presents a significant navigation challenge for any robotic inspection system. A few prototypes have been developed to date
The second system is a wireless video transmitter for the Gopro camera that is often used in model airplanes.
In the same way our turning command is sent to every robot. Even steering 10 robots to point in the same direction is like flipping a coin until you get 10 heads in a row.
#World lightest and thinnest circuits pave the way for mperceptible electronicsresearchers from Asia and Europe have developed the world lightest and thinnest organic circuits
while retaining full functionality. his is a very convenient way of making electronics stretchable because you can fabricate high performance devices in a flat state
which way the tofu is facing and how big it is using a camera. The images are analyzed by a computer and the robot works out
which way to orient the tofu. Once it picks the tofu up it then puts it in a package.
#The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate and take flight he whole is greater than the sum of its partsâ##a catch phrase that aptly expresses the Distributed Flight Array:
a modular robotâ consisting of hexagonal-shaped single-rotor units that can take on just about any shape or form.
Although each unit is capable of generating enough thrust to lift itself off the ground on its own it is incapable of flight much like a helicopter cannot fly without its tail rotor.
However when joined together these units evolve into a sophisticated multi-rotor system capable of coordinated flight and much more.
otherwise be impossible to achieve on its own â##flight. This modular flying vehicle would then break apart in the air
1) docking (2) coordinated ground mobility and (3) coordinated flight. In accomplishing each of these tasks we would in turn validate our model
and to demonstrate coordinated flight in several configurations. Our goals were too ambitious under the framework of this class
in order to make the vehicle lighter for flight. Its primary limitation however was its inability to demonstrate coordinated mobility for randomly assembled configurations.
and even if this were did possible we not yet have any way of automatically generating the appropriate control strategy for the assembled configuration.
We opted instead for constructing the chassis out of laser-cut acetal plastic a higher-powered flight motor and a new propeller.
and thrust generation unit (i e. propeller and flight motor) from scratch but kept most of the power and control electronics the same.
The new flight motor and propeller was tested to ensure that it produced a sufficient amount of thrust
and constructed six complete units for flight. In this revision we demonstrated coordinated flight for a variety of configurations.
The flight controller was computed ahead of time and sent wirelessly to each unit prior to flight. Knowing that the chassis
and thrust generation unit was sound we then went ahead and integrated driving capabilities and intercommunication into the units.
To successfully accomplish this the flight control strategy must minimize the shear forces occuring between interconnected units during flight.
but the most striking feature of the Distributed Flight Array is its ability to fly in an unlimited number of configurations.
What is most surprising is that the units themselves do need not necessarily to communicate with one another during flight.
The only information that a unit needs for flight is its local sensor data and its position with respect to the vehicle centre of mass.
We instead developed a means for automatically computing the tuning parameters for any flight-feasible configuration of the vehicle that would result in best flight performance.
The Distributed Flight Array is currently being used at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich as a modular robotics platform for investigating algorithms in distributed estimation and control.
and a whole crew of Phd and Master students to develop the infrastructure and algorithms that make this demonstration possible
and TED Global is not the first time it has taken to the road: In 2011 they set up at the FRAC Centre in Orlã ans France to create a six metre-high tower the first architectural installation built by flying machines (see video.
 t boils down to fifteen cases boxes and bagssaysâ Dario Brescianinini another member of the crew.
It was a busy set with fifteen TED crew members seven people from Dndrea team and one photographer.
Just like you might trail your hand along a wall to find your way in the dark the robot can bounce of walls
paves way for personalized drug treatments Panasonic, together with the Belgium-based research institution IMEC, has developed a DNA TESTING chip that automates all stages of obtaining genetic information,
We had studied already the use of motion-based cues in navigation, such as optic flow and the size changes of visually salient features like SURF,
if the appearance of visual features could be used to aid navigation as well. To this end
and to process the images after the flight. This processing now happens when the player visits the highscore table
and by habit you may avoid playing the game in such a way that would make the program malfunction.
In the future, we may also improve our crowdsourcing game in various ways, in order to make it as fun and easy as possible for players,
In any case, it an adventure to work with this exciting new way of gathering robotic data n
making it ideal for navigating crowded environments like tradeshows, restaurants, offices and airports. It easy to imagine it one day being used to unobtrusively serve drinks at a cocktail event,
Rezero could even one day rival the Segway as a personal transportation device. Rezero agility comes from a propulsion
PSS which is searching for a way to roll out the Genelead globally including through OEM sales is
#First autonomous navigation remote presence robot to receive FDA clearance Based on the following press release, irobot,
RP-VITA is the first autonomous navigation remote presence robot to receive FDA clearance. RP-VITA is a joint effort between two industry leaders, irobot and Intouch Health.
The robot combines the latest in autonomous navigation and mobility technologies developed by irobot with state-of-the-art telemedicine
The world's first crash avoiding drone comes from Guangzhou Walkera Technology Co. Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of R c model toys such as helicopters
& aeroplanes that are certified to CE UL and FCC standards. The Walkera Infra X Smart Drone with Crash Avoidance System (CAS) contains a total of 10 sensors 2 Ultrasonic Altitude Sensors on the belly of the drone 8 Infrared Sensors
For traditional radio frequency helicopters in same frequency cannot fly together because of interference. With 2. 4ghz radio system many helicopters can fly at the same time without interference.
Mind-controlled quadrotor dronemind controlled drones are a hot area for researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzou China who have adapted a Parrot AR Drone 2. 0 to be operated by an Emotiv EPOC
By thinking left strongly the mind-pilot can make the drone take off; thinking left right and push makes it turn clockwise move forward
in order to maintain flight, but this makes it difficult for them to fit into smaller spaces.
the team had to first designate the primary mode of locomotion in this case flight, as the DALER will cover the longest distances this way.
The wings were adapted then for walking, taking into consideration the need to not add extra weight
so as to satisfy the constraints of both ground locomotion and flight. The best shape found for these wingerons is a triangular one.
Flight maneuverability requires rapid wingeron movements and low torque, whereas walking requires the opposite conditions.
while not compromising flight maneuverability. A second issue in creating a fixed wing drone capable of walking on the ground is with the morphology, thanks to the different centre of mass requirements for the two modes of locomotion.
Supervised traffic jam assist After a short day looking at robocars at CES a more full day was full of the usual equipment cameras TVS audio and the like and visits to several car booths.
Lots of people were making demonstrations of traffic jam assist at CES simple self-driving at low speeds among other cars.
All the demos were supervised of a traffic jam assist. This style of product (as well as supervised highway cruising) is the first thing that car companies are delivering (though they are also delivering various parking assist
and valet parking systems). This makes sense as it an easy problem to solve. So easy in fact that many of them now admit they are working on making a real traffic jam assist
which will drive the jam for you while you do e-mail or read a book.
This is a readily solvable problem today you really just have to follow the other cars
and you are going slow enough that short of a catastrophic error like going full throttle you aren going to hurt people no matter what you do at least on a highway where there are no pedestrians or cyclists.
As such a full auto traffic jam assist should be the first product we see form car companies.
It a shame because frankly the supervised cruise and traffic jam assist products are just in the leasant extra featurecategory.
The Delphi car a modified Audi SUV has no fewer than 6 4-plane LIDARS and an even larger number of radars.
which is need what you for dealing with intersections where cross traffic doesn stop and for changing lanes at high speed.
but is also able to fly horizontally like a fixed-wing airplane. Following field tests, however, Google scrapped the design,
For fast forward flight, the vehicle tilts to a near-horizontal orientation, resulting in efficient lift production due to the conventional wing design.
hover-capable aircraft such as tiltrotors and tiltwings, the major advantage of a tailsitter is its mechanical simplicity:
A Pixhawk PX4 Flight Management Unit (FMU) runs the onboard control loop that tracks the desired body rates using a rate gyroscope
Robbe Mini Wing RC styrofoam airframe Electronics: Pixhawk PX4 Flight Management Unit Battery: Thunder Power RC G6 Pro Lite 25c Lipo 350mah 2s Motors:
Hacker A05-13s Motor controllers: ZTW Spider 12a ESCS with Simonk firmware Propellers: 5×3 GWS EP-5030 Flap servos:
However, it is an exciting development in the way we think about how cancer can be treated.
we will find new ways to target and combat the disease. It is very likely that the chemotherapies of the future will exploit these interactions
Senegal Minister of Energy and Development of Renewable energies. e can resolve it without financing solutions to transportation and distribution issues.
One way plants achieve this efficiency is by making use of the exotic effects of quantum mechanics effects sometimes known as uantum weirdness.
he wondered if that might provide a way to artificially induce a similar effect, in an effort to approach nature efficiency. had been talking about potential systems you could use to demonstrate this effect,
and to demonstrate that the new viruses were indeed making use of quantum coherence to enhance the transport of excitons. t was really fun,
it points the way toward an approach that could lead to inexpensive and efficient solar cells or light-driven catalysis,
In his blog 99 Mind-blowing Ways the Digital economy Is Changing the Future of Business, Vivek Bapat revealed that 68%of consumers are interested in companies that bring social and environmental change.
Five ways your business can take advantage of the circular economy As the circular economy proves,
For me to have her in the studio at her hourly rate would be way more expensive than to hire the professional talent we hire."
"Keep the Videos Topical Maris offered several tips to others who may decide to go this route in creating videos.
The Old Way Vickie Maris, former director of professional development programs who now is the graduate programs director in Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical engineering,
described the traditional way Purdue's Engineering Professional Education program produces lecture videos: After an initial brainstorming session
"That's a fairly simple way to get something on the ground and get running,
That's an easy way for them to get their content out and for us to have some'meat'to work with."
"In exchange for that free registration, they know up front that we're going to ask them at several points along the way for feedback."
including unmanned air vehicles (UAVS) due to the capability to disappear from view and leaving no visual,
We can change the way light waves are being reflected at will and ultimately focus a large area of sunlight onto a solar power tower
and vet potential participants for the train and equip program. As we review the program,
airways and collapsed lungs. Now a new ARA software program funded in part by the Army intends to significantly advance that training via a downloadable hysiology enginethat allows medical personnel see how their actions affect every other aspect of their patient physiology.
#NASA's drone is part chopper, part airplane Answer: NASA'S latest drone prototype, GL-10.
It has a tilt-wing design that allows for vertical takeoff and landing--similar to existing tiltrotor aircraft like the Bell-Boeing V22 Osprey."
"said Zach Johns, the prototype's main pilot.""The four engines on the right wing also work in concert.
"Successful flight tests have not only demonstrated its hovering capabilities during its vertical takeoff--the way a helicopter does
"During the flight tests we successfully transitioned from hover to wing-borne flight like a conventional airplane then back to hover again.
So far we have done this on five flights, "said Bill Fredericks, one of the aerospace engineers working on the project, in a NASA press release."
Now we're working on our second goal--to demonstrate that this concept is four times more aerodynamically efficient in cruise than a helicopter."
what we are testing now--would make also a great one to four person size personal air vehicle."
water comes through--in your basements, in a parking garage. Secondly, if this water gets to the steel reinforcements--in concrete we have all these steel rebars
"But Jonkers has come up with an entirely new way of giving concrete a longer life."
#Scientists grow monkey arms in the lab But that's not the end of the road for this arm.
Suppressing immunity in this way opens up the risk of new infections and certain cancers. Ott's ambitious technique therefore has an ambitious goal--to one day provide amputees with fully functional limbs that can be transplanted
#Prosthetic hand'tells'the brain what it is touching Research on prosthetic hands has come a long way,
but most of it has focused on improving the way the body controls the device. Now, it may also be possible for prosthetic hands to send signals back to the body
that we have a way to describe how it might survive, "said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA.
But because of the screen constraints and the way people typically use their smartphones, it's traditionally been hard to push mobile ads for anything other than branding purposes that is,
"Drones have a lot of potential to further connect our vast network of stores, distribution centers, fulfillment centers and transportation fleet,
That's way late for your last-minute Christmas shopping plans, which could reasonably be assisted by drone deliveries.
Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International airport, the main entry point for flights bringing in international aid since the April quake, was closed anew Tuesday as a precaution.
People could be seen frantically calling their families as medical attendants rushed to set up tents in the parking lot.
This research paves the way for future treatments that may preserve and restore male fertility
#Skype's Real-time Translator Now Open to All Microsoft-owned Skype has cleared the way for anyone to use a new feature that translates video chats or instant messages in real time.
#Google Self-driving cars Ready for Public roads Google announced Friday its self-driving prototype cars were ready to leave the test track
and hit public roads in California, in a step forward for its autonomous automobile program. The move comes after Google's internal testing of the bubble-shaped vehicle over the past year
and hit the familiar roads of Mountain view, California, with our safety drivers aboard,"said project chief Chris Urmson in a blog post."
there hasn been a simple, inexpensive and quick way to monitor water quality. But a team of entrepreneurs from Calgary, Canada, has developed a solution.
But in the future, charging an electric vehicle may require nothing more than driving and parking. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind energy and Energy system Technology IWES in Kassel, Germany, have developed a wireless charger system that not only recharges a battery but also feeds excess energy back into the electrical grid.
one built into the road, parking space or garage and the other fitted to the underside of electric car.
With this system in place, energy can be transmitted without a plug and entirely through the air or as researchers explain in more depth, hrough a time-varying magnetic field.
Scientists in the UK, for example, are developing electric highways to charge electric cars. However, unlike other options, this coil system from Fraunhofer Institute can also discharge the electricity stored in a vehicle battery
For patients with significant motor impairments, BMI tech allows the use of artificial limbs by way of electrodes connected to the brain.
Millán team has found a way to make use of those error signals by teaching the machine itself to learn from mistakes.
Since there no way to stop it, Dutch scientists have decided to join in. Theye built a machine capable of creating the world largest artificial wave.
#Helicopter's Robotic Legs Help Stick Tricky Landings Helicopters of the future could use insectlike robotic legs to land in unlikely places like the slopes of steep hills
Touching down on uneven surfaces is something that today's helicopters are equipped just not to do, according to the Defense Advanced Projects Agency,
But robotic landing gear developed for DARPA at the Georgia Institute of technology (Georgia Tech) could better equip these aircraft to land just about anywhere.
The new landing gear features four robotic legs with bendable"knees"that turn a normal helicopter into
the legs automatically move to stabilize the aircraft, according to DARPA officials, who recently tested out the new system near the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta."
unmanned helicopter successfully demonstrated the ability to land and take off from terrain that would be impossible to operate from with standard landing gear,"Ashish Bagai,
DARPA program manager, said in a statement. Embedded with force-sensitive contact sensors on each of its feet,
the robotic legs determine the precise angle they need to assume to keep the helicopter from tipping over
what Bagai referred to as"standard landing gear, "which typically features either retractable wheels or fixed skids (the ski-type beams sometimes seen under the fuselage of a helicopter).
Neither of these options works well on uneven terrain, which is unfortunate, because helicopters often need to land
and take off in areas like disaster zones, where there may not be any flat surfaces, according to DARPA.
The robo-insect landing gear can handle landings on irregular terrain, even if there are significant obstacles in the way,
including rocky ledges or boulders. And besides making landings more versatile, the jointed legs also significantly reduce the damage inflicted on helicopters during"hard landings,"according to DARPA.
The agency said these improved capabilities can"greatly expand"the effectiveness of helicopters used for both military and nonmilitary purposes u
#Smart Mirror Diagnoses Health problems Mirror, mirror on the wall, what my cholesterol level? The Wize Mirror, developed by 11 European research groups,
and Trade Program Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Friday that China will develop a carbon trading system as a way to reduce the country greenhouse gas emissions.
so that both the U s. and China can lead the way for other nations to come to a climate agreement in Paris in December.
However, scientists are currently exploring ways to cut back on the two to four percent of hydrogen peroxide used as they focus on alternatives to use water itself to fuel the motors.
#Gene-Edited Pigs May Become Human Parts Researchers have figured out a way to make pig organs for human beings free of dangerous viruses using a controversial gene-editing technique.
In tests, the fields were controlled in such a way as to manipulate tiny polysterene spheres caught between the fields.
and iron. e will establish a way to mass-produce the new material shortly, said Atsunobu Masuno in an interview.
These two structures reflect light in different ways, and CDS and DVDS use this difference to store data.
or amorphous order CD or DVD drive shines low-intensity laser light on a disk and tracks the way the light bounces off.
Photonic memories still have a long way to go if they ever hope to catch up to their electronic counterparts.
Several Prep studies similarly have shown that ARVS protect uninfected people regardless of the route of transmission.
The bispecific antibody first binds to CD3 on cells that harbor latent HIV. This prompts the cells to divide, an ctivationprocess that wakes up the sleeping virus. New HIV proteins are produced subsequently that migrate to the surface of the cell.
scientists have figured out a way to levitate and rotate objects in midair. If perfected, this onic tractor beamcould find uses ranging from treating kidney stones to creating artificial gravity on the International space station.
In that way they create a complex 3d pattern of high and low pressure regions which the authors call an"acoustic hologram,
and that paves the way for lots of other research. v
#Faster, smaller, more informative A new technique invented at MIT can measure the relative positions of tiny particles as they flow through a fluidic channel,
potentially offering an easy way to monitor the assembly of nanoparticles, or to study how mass is distributed within a cell.
The MIT team came up with a way to vibrate the cantilever in many different modes simultaneously,
while studying the way in which the parasites Toxoplasma gondii, which causes toxoplasmosis, and Plasmodium, which causes malaria, access vital nutrients from their host cells.
he says. o they have had to evolve ways to get around their own barriers, to gain access to these nutrients. revious research has shown that the vacuoles are selectively permeable to small molecules,
Similar research into how the related Plasmodium pathogen performs this trick had identified a so-called rotein export complexthat transports encoded proteins from the parasite into its host red blood cell,
and so we went back to look at this longstanding phenomenon of nutrient transport, Gold says. When they added dyes to the host cell,
suggesting that this small-molecule transport function had been restored. ll of this came together to strongly suggest that this protein that is involved in protein export in Plasmodium may also have an additional function in small-molecule transport,
to create and maintain a superfluid gas long enough to observe it at ultrahigh synthetic magnetic fields. oing to extremes is the way to make discoveries,
During that time, the team took time-of-flight pictures of the distribution of atoms to capture the topology
the team first looked for a way to measure the robot center of pressure, or weight distribution,
But perhaps more important than just a way to control a robot in the absence of knowing how to do it autonomously is being able to observe and collect data from the robot.
We can combine them in unique ways, so that they can act as sensors, actuators, or logic.
in collaboration with aircraft manufacturer Airbus, involving a jet engine air inlet that traditionally causes drag during flight.
and avoid the need for pilots to control it. Designing for transformation on demand In self-assembly, independent components come together to build a final structure completely on their own,
MIT professor of materials science and engineering and director of the MIT Microphotonics Center. e don look at this the way we still look at fiber,
nd the way we do that is to miniaturize the devices, he says. y the time wee embedded them into these circuits,
if we want to demonstrate a new architecture that wel be allowed to manipulate the factory in any way.
Our germanium laser would be a way to do that. It's at the research rather than the commercial stage at this point,
our understanding of a material properties at a fundamental level and ways it can be translated into real-world use has provided a challenge.
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