To teach a robot running the software to pick up trash for example you would use a remote control to repeatedly guide its gripper to perform that task.
Later this year Brain Corporation will start offering a ready-made circuit board with a smartphone processor
The chip on that board is made by mobile processor company Qualcomm which is an investor in Brain Corporation.
At the Mobile Developers Conference in San francisco last week a wheeled robot with twin cameras powered by one of Brain Corporation s circuit boards was trained live on stage In one demo the robot called
Those neuromorphic chips as they are known are purely research projects for the moment. But they might eventually offer a more powerful and efficient way to run software like Brainos.
and one can envision how the extension of these concepts might lead to better sensors for advanced active safety and driverless car systems.
Sensors monitor the wearer s motion and battery-powered motors move cables to pull up on the heel
and novel soft sensors made of silicone rubber are integrated into the suit. The sensors developed at another lab at Harvard include embedded channels filled with a conductive liquid that changes in resistivity as the silicone is stretched.
To make the device even more efficient Walsh is studying human biomechanics and testing people s energy consumption as they use it.
and Tablets with 3-D Vision Are Coming Soon Laptops with 3-D sensors in place of conventional webcams will go on sale before the end of this year according to chip maker Intel
And tablets with 3-D sensors will hit the market in 2015 the company said at its annual developers conference in San francisco on Wednesday.
Intel first announced its 3-D sensing technology at the Consumer electronics Show in January (see Intel s 3-D Camera Heads to Laptops and Tablets.
It has developed two different types of depth sensor. One is designed for use in place of a front-facing webcam to sense human movement such as gestures.
Both sensors allow a device to capture the color and 3-D shape of a scene making it possible for a computer to recognize gestures
In the next few weeks the chip maker will release free software that any software developer can use to build apps for the sensors.
Another demonstration showed how a 3-D sensor could measure the dimensions of a sofa in a store
Bhowmik also showed how data from a tablet s 3-D sensor can be used to build very accurate augmented reality games where a virtual character viewed on a device s screen integrates into the real environment.
Intel also showed how the front-facing 3-D sensors can be used to recognize gestures to play games on a laptop
Those demonstrations were reminiscent of Microsoft s Kinect sensor for its Xbox gaming console which introduced gamers to depth sensing
Some of Intel s demos were rough around the edges suggesting that their compact sensors are less accurate than the larger ones of Microsoft.
Intel s two sensors work in slightly different ways. The front sensor calculates the position of objects by observing how they distort an invisible pattern of infrared light by a tiny projector in the sensor.
The rear sensor scans a scene using twin cameras that gauge depth with stereovision combined with an infrared camera to help fine-tune the results.
Intel s new sensors are roughly the same size as the camera components used in existing devices says Bhowmik.
The rear sensor in particular is compact enough to fit in very slim devices. On Monday Dell announced that the sensors will appear later this year in its Venue 8 7000 tablet which is only six millimeters thick thinner than any other tablet on the market t
#A Super-Strong and Lightweight New Material A new type of material made up of nanoscale struts crisscrossed like the struts of a tiny Eiffel Tower is one of the strongest and lightest substances ever made.
If researchers can figure out how to make the stuff in large quantities it could be used as a structural material for making planes and trucks as well as in battery electrodes.
In a conventional LCD display the liquid crystals within the pixels need to be positioned perfectly between two sheets of glass.
is also extremely difficult to make a flexible backlighthe component needed to illuminate LCD pixels.
because image sensors are designed for the ridges and valleys of adult fingertips. The Michigan State university researchers developed software that makes it feasible to accurately match fingerprints of children under five with off-the-shelf equipment.
and the sensors are small and work quickly. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded the research specifically for recording vaccinations
The Michigan State university researchers needed to process images taken from fingerprint sensors using software to compensate for the small size of the children s fingerprints as well as their sometimes wet and oily skin.
He will try to make his own versions of the kind of chip inside A d-Wave machine.
And research published in 2011 showed that the machine s chip harbors the right kind of quantum physics needed for quantum computing.
and believes certain electrical insulator materials used in D-Wave s chips may be limiting its performance.
or ordinary glasses, creating a display that looks like ordinary glasses with the addition of an LCD panel.
#A New Chip Could Add Motion Sensing to Clothing A company called mcube has made a new kind of accelerometer, the device that senses motion from inside a smartphone or fitness monitor.
Accelerometers are made usually of two chips: a mechanical device that detects movement, and a microchip that makes sense of the signal from the first chip.
By integrating those components on a single chip, mcube has reduced not only the size of the device
but achieved a higher-quality signal. In fact, the company says its new accelerometer is sensitive enough to replace the gyroscope in a smartphone.
Nearly 70 million of mcube sensors have already been shipped to electronics manufacturers in China for use in smartphones.
says its customers are interested also in integrated, single-chip accelerometers. Rosa says Applied materials is, in fact, developing a process for making such chips using the latest materials,
including silicon germanium. Embedding motion sensors in clothing, mcube long-term goal, would require better ways of powering the devices
and having them communicate. But several experimental options for energy harvesting or wireless charging might eventually make that possible (see Batteryless Sensor Chip for the Internet of Thingsand obile Gadgets That Connect to Wi-fi without a Battery w
#Longer-Lasting Battery Is Being tested for Wearable devices A type of battery that could eventually store twice as much energy as a conventional one could be about to move beyond niche applications to wearable devices phones and even electric cars.
and are used in some wireless sensors but they have been too expensive to use elsewhere. Applied materials one of the world s biggest equipment suppliers for the semiconductor and display industries says it can make these batteries much cheaper.
which makes it possible to replace conventional electrodes with lithium metal ones that hold far more energy.
Making high-quality electrode and electrolyte materials over large areas has been one of the challenges to making the solid-state batteries economically.#
#The batteries are made by successively depositing electrical contacts electrodes and the solid electrolyte that separates them in much the way that the many layers of a display are deposited.
much as you would dope semiconductor materials for chips. The company is also working on ways to deposit the energy-storing materials faster to enable thick layers that store large amounts of energy r
and machine learning techniques let a regular smartphone camera act as a depth sensor. Just about everybody carries a camera nowadays by virtue of owning a cell phone,
The light would bounce off the nearby object and return to the sensor with a corresponding intensity.
A new kind of liquid crystal display (LCD) with pixels that switch much more quickly could give smartphones brighter screens
The design uses new materials from Light Polymers, a startup based in South San francisco. In an LCD,
In a conventional LCD, pixels switch much too slowlyn the range of a couple of millisecondsor the technique to work.
The new designnown as a sequential displayould help LCDS close the energy efficiency gap with another type of display, the OLED.
#Terahertz Chip Identifies Short Strands of DNA One of the more significant practical challenges currently occupying molecular biologists is to find better ways of identifying short strands of DNA.
and markers that can be picked up by optical sensors providing a useful but indirect indication of the molecules that are present.
#IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does A new kind of computer chip,
the chip consumes significantly less power, and is suited vastly better to processing images, sound, and other sensory data.
IBM Synapse chip processes information using a network of just over one million eurons, which communicate with one another using electrical spikess actual neurons do.
The chip uses the same basic components as today commercial chipsilicon transistors. But its transistors are configured to mimic the behavior of both neurons and the connectionsynapsesetween them.
The Synapse chip breaks with a design known as the Von neumann architecture that has underpinned computer chips for decades.
Although researchers have been experimenting with chips modeled on brainsnown as neuromorphic chipsince the late 1980s,
Details of the chip were published today in the journal Science. The new chip is not yet a product,
but it is powerful enough to work on real-world problems. In a demonstration at IBM Almaden research center, MIT Technology Review saw one recognize cars, people,
and it consumed 100,000 times as much power as the IBM chip. IBM researchers are now experimenting with connecting multiple Synapse chips together,
and they hope to build a supercomputer using thousands. When data is fed into a Synapse chip it causes a stream of spikes,
and its neurons react with a storm of further spikes. The just over one million neurons on the chip are organized into 4, 096 identical blocks of 250,
an arrangement inspired by the structure of mammalian brains, which appear to be built out of repeating circuits of 100 to 250 neurons,
Programming the chip involves choosing which neurons are connected, and how strongly they influence one another. To recognize cars in video, for example,
a programmer would work out the necessary settings on a simulated version of the chip, which would then be transferred over to the real thing.
or any chip IBM has made ever, with over five billion, it consumes strikingly little power.
Server chips with similar numbers of transistors consume tens of watts of powerround 10,000 times more.
IBM new chip doesn have separate memory and processing blocks, because its neurons and synapses intertwine the two functions.
The new chip ay be a historic development, he says. he very low power consumption and scalability of this architecture are really unique.
even the best programmers find learning to work with the chip bruising, says Modha: t almost always a frustrating experience.
Asking the industry to adopt an entirely new kind of chip and way of coding may seem audacious.
because it is becoming clear that current computers won be able to deliver much more in the way of performance gains. his chip is coming at the right time,
Battery-free devices that can communicate could make it much cheaper and easier to widely deploy sensors inside homes to take control of heating and other services.
Smart thermostats on the market today, such as the Nest, are limited by the fact that they can sense temperature only in their immediate location.
and battery-free sensors behind couches and cabinets could provide the detailed data needed to make such thermostats more effective. ou could throw these things wherever you want
motion detectors, accelerometers, and touch-sensitive buttons. Adding Wi-fi capabilities makes the devices more practical.
and cellular network transmitters. But although enough energy can be collected that way to run low-powered circuits,
for example, one of the new prototypes switches its antenna back and forth between modes that absorb and reflect the signal from a nearby Wi-fi router.
Additionally, many of us are already wearing earbuds and headphones on and off throughout the day, and Leboeuf contends it not necessary to keep them on constantly to collect useful data.
including LG Heart rate Monitor Earphone and iriver iriveron Heart rate Monitoring Bluetooth Headset (available to consumers for $180 and $200, respectively) and a pair of earbuds from Intel,
a paper he coauthored with researchers at Duke university medical school indicated that the company earbud sensor was able to accurately estimate total energy expenditure
Like Bluetooth headsets and some noise-cancelling headphones, the Performtek technology needs its own power source to work.
But a pair of Performtek-using earbuds that Intel showed off this year at the International Consumer electronics Show in Las Vegaseant to be a reference design for manufacturersvoids this kind of bulk by harvesting power from the microphone jack.
Because of its scratch-proof properties, it has long been used for making LEDS, sensors on missiles,
helping to further increase the amount of information that can be packed onto a single chip. RRAM can also operate a hundred times faster than flash.
which serve as electrodes. A voltage is applied, causing the metal to migrate into the holes,
forming an electrical connection between the electrodes. Finally, the researchers apply another voltage, causing a tiny break to form in the metal inside the pores,
so it should be easier to integrate the memory storage with other electronics on a chip.
But the individual memory units on a flash chip require three connections, which makes forming multiple layers of memory difficult and expensive.
Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing, and advances in analytic software now make it possible to capture vast amounts of information about our individual makeup and the environment around us.
and other sensors to assess the behavior of people with mental illnesses such as depression. Are they calling loved ones,
and environmental sensors. The company approach is meant to make the batteries safe for on-body applications,
the batteries can deliver enough current for low-power wireless communications sensors, distinguishing them from other types of thin batteries.
branch-like structures that can grow from one electrode to the other, shorting the battery.
The company also recently began working on a project funded by the U s. military to make batteries for sensors that would monitor the health status of soldiers.
Other potential applications include powering smart labels with sensors for tracking food and packages n
It boasts blue-chip customers including General electric Procter & gamble and Schneider Electric but it faces blistering competition from EMC Syncplicity and Citrix Sharefile as well as Microsoft Onedrive Google Drive and a host of others.
Each one focuses light onto 29 megapixel chip. The dome is designed so that the fields of view of each of the small telescopes overlap to cover around 10,000 square degrees of sky simultaneously
The small telescopes themselves are simplessentially camera lenses sitting on top of CCD chips. Law and co have been experimenting with Canon 50mm and 85mm F/1. 2 lenses.
such as keylogging to collect passwords or eavesdropping through the infected computer microphone. The most effective method to protect data against cyber-spying is to process confidential information on dedicated computers that are connected not to the Internet.
That allows the data from each sensor to be compared and combined to produce a far more precise estimate of orientation than a single measurement alone.
In addition the 3dtouch has an optical flow sensor that measures the movement of the device against a two-dimensional surface exactly like that inside an ordinary mouse.
which combines the data from all the sensors. The fused data is streamed then to a conventional laptop.
And they say they know what modifications could easily improve it such as a more reliable optical sensor.
A Wearable 3d Input device With An Optical Sensor And A 9-DOF Inertial Measurement Uni U
#Google Makes Its Search engine a Remote control for Some Mobile Apps Getting stuff done using a smartphone often involves swiping through a jumble of icons looking for just the right app then navigating within it to find what you want.
capture free over-the-air TV broadcasts on tiny antennas in data centersne antenna per customernd send that content over the Internet to individual subscribers,
Technology honed at Dartmouth uses four pairs of electrodes around the wrist. Electrical resistance between the electrodes turns out to be a biometric:
it is unique to individuals, depending on their body composition, flesh thickness, and bone size. After the device measures the correct levels of resistance,
and they use copper rather than silver electrodes to save costs. Higher efficiency can yield big savings on installation costs
what could be the perfect accompaniment way for ordinary headphones to create a realistic illusion of sound coming from specific locations in space.
I put on a pair of wireless headphones that made nearby objects suddenly burst into life. A voice appeared to emanate from a cardboard model of a portable radio.
I had sat down in front of a Kinect 3-D sensor and been turned briefly to the left and right.
To work properly, Tashev system also needs data on the position of the headphones as a person moves his head
provided by motion sensors and a watching camera. However, the kind of motion sensors used by virtual reality headset like the Oculus Rift could provide enough information.
Tashev system is a new twist on an old idea. It has long been known that the unique shape
The most accurate way is to use earplugs fitted with an array of microphones to record exactly what reaches a person ears
One of the electrodes is made usually of carbon, which reacts with oxygen, forming carbon dioxide. The ceramic material Powell showed mehich is made of zirconium oxideeplaces the carbon electrode
and eliminates those emissions. Researchers have been trying to replace carbon for many years, but the molten salts have corroded the alternatives.
whether its ceramic electrodes hold up for as long as the company smaller-scale testing suggests they will.
He does so by implanting electrodes into their brains to monitor neural activity. Now, as part of a sweeping $70 million program funded by the U s. military,
meaning electronic devices that alter feelings, perhaps under direct control of a patient thoughts and wishes. asically,
Peloton system consists of radar sensors, a wireless communications system, and computers connected to each truck central computer.
if they are connected to an external receiver, or slotted into a special protective case. Holmes plugs my iphone into a white device shaped like a smartphone atop a little stand.
Across the table, a briefcase-sized wireless energy transmitter sits on another tripod and a plug dangling from it is plugged into the wall.
He taps the app to tell the transmitter to find the devices and start the power-up process.
Energous charging method uses a transmitter with lots of small antennas to send radio waves to a receiver connected to the gadget being charged.
The transmitter uses Bluetooth to scan for nearby gadgets that are authorized to receive a charge.
the transmitter directs radio waves toward the receiver, which collects them and converts their energy to DC power so it can charge the phone.
The transmitter and receivers Energous brings to my office can send power to two devices that require less than 10 watts of power at a distance of up to 15 feet;
The company expects the first products using its technologyuch as smartphone cases that can deliver wireless power to the deviceso be shown off by partner companies at the International Consumer electronics Show in Las vegas next January
though the transmitter for charging things probably would cost around $300. To make things sleeker
and the company is having its first transmitter and receiver chips manufactured. Energous faces plenty of challenges, though.
The 20-millimeter-long cuff positions a set of electrodes on a region of the nerve that the team determined would specifically stimulate the changes in blood pressure.
which a surgeon would gently wrap the electrodes around the nerve. The device would then be connected to a capsule containing the pulse generator
which would be implanted under the chest muscle through an incision in the left armpit. The whole surgery should take an hour
or whether crash sensors on the bumpers have been triggered, potentially allowing ads pegged to incidents on the road. t could be had you just a little fender bender,
such as thermostats or home automation systems, could also allow for creative new ads. Kiip hasn announced yet any partnerships that that might provide that data, though.
Cochlear implants use up to 22 platinum electrodes to stimulate the auditory nerve; the devices make a tremendous difference for people
So there a physical gap between these atrophied neurons and the electrodes in the cochlear implant.
and electrodes should make it possible to use weaker electrical stimulation, opening up the possibility of stimulating multiple parts of the auditory nerve at once, using more electrodes,
and improving the overall quality of sound. Peptides called neurotrophins can encourage regeneration of the neurons in the auditory nerve.
distributed electrodes of the cochlear implant could be used to achieve the effect. Housley group used deafened guinea pigs
they applied an electroporation voltage using the electrodes. The process, which took only a few seconds during surgery,
Robert Shepherd, director of the Bionics Institute, a nonprofit medical research center in Melbourne, Australia, says electrode-directed gene therapy could improve other kinds of neural interfaces. herever wee applying electrodes,
to test the electrode and gene therapy combination in a clinical trial i
#Increasingly, Robots of All Sizes Are Human Workmates Most industrial robots are far less friendly than the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner,
New sensors and software allow these machines to predict collisions and avoid them as humans go about their work.
and teams of them might prove a good way to lay them out onto circuit boards.
Helping to make circuit boards in small batches for prototyping new electronic devices is one possible application.
Hobbyists and small companies working on electronics hardware today make few prototype circuit boards due to the time it takes to assemble them by hand
and graphite electrodes at a plant that also makes graphite for tires and other applications.
The electrolytes and electrodes are packaged then into cells at a plant dedicated to cell making,
Raw materials, processed into electrodes, electrolytes, containers and other parts, go in one end; complete battery packs come out the other.
Sensors can ultimately help bring about semi-autonomous or fully autonomous cars (see ata Show Google Robot Cars Are Smoother, Safer Drivers Than You or I. Henry Tirri,
the amount of data vehicles produce. he car is already probably the densest sensor hub that an individual owns right now,
"Three-dimensional, porous materials have been regarded as an obstacle to building electrodes. But we have proven that this is not a problem.
"Three-dimensional, porous materials have been regarded as an obstacle to building electrodes. But we have proven that this is not a problem.
Six sensors were fitted then to the foot sole of a lightweight prosthesis and linked to so-called stimulators inside the shaft where the stump sits."
the small sensor devices send signals to the brain.""In a healthy foot, skin receptors carry out this function
"The sensors tell the brain there is a foot and the wearer has the impression that it rolls off the ground when he walks.
Six sensors were fitted then to the foot sole of a lightweight prosthesis, and linked to so-called stimulators inside the shaft where the stump sits."
the small sensor devices send signals to the brain.""In a healthy foot, skin receptors carry out this function
"The sensors tell the brain there is a foot and the wearer has the impression that it rolls off the ground when he walks.
#New sensor to detect cancer, HIV, hepatitis Researchers have developed a highly sensitive nanomechanical sensor that can detect cancerous tumours as well as viral disease markers for HIV,
hepatitis and herpes. Researchers from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) developed the ultracompact nanomechanical sensor for analysing the chemical composition of substances and detecting biological objects.
The sensor can detect viral disease markers, which appear when the immune system responds to incurable
or hard-to-cure diseases, including HIV, hepatitis, herpes, and many others. The sensor will also enable doctors to identify tumour markers,
whose presence in the body signals the emergence and growth of cancerous tumours. The highly sensitive sensor will allow for diagnosing diseases long before they can be detected by any other method,
which will pave the way for a new-generation of diagnostics, researchers said. Calculations done by the researchers,
Dmitry Fedyanin and Yury Stebunov, showed that the new sensor will combine high sensitivity with a comparative ease of production
One chip, several millimetres in size, will be able to accommodate several thousand such sensors, configured to detect different particles or molecules,
more precisely, optomechanical chip.""We've been following the progress made in the development of micro
"So our goal was not only to achieve the high sensitivity of the sensor and make it compact,
#New sensor to detect cancer, HIV Researchers have developed a highly sensitive nanomechanical sensor that can detect cancerous tumours as well as viral disease markers for HIV,
hepatitis and herpes. Researchers from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) developed the ultracompact nanomechanical sensor for analysing the chemical composition of substances and detecting biological objects.
The sensor can detect viral disease markers, which appear when the immune system responds to incurable
or hard-to-cure diseases, including HIV, hepatitis, herpes, and many others. The sensor will also enable doctors to identify tumour markers,
whose presence in the body signals the emergence and growth of cancerous tumours. The highly sensitive sensor will allow for diagnosing diseases long before they can be detected by any other method
which will pave the way for a new-generation of diagnostics, researchers said. Calculations done by the researchers,
Dmitry Fedyanin and Yury Stebunov, showed that the new sensor will combine high sensitivity with a comparative ease of production
One chip, several millimetres in size, will be able to accommodate several thousand such sensors, configured to detect different particles or molecules,
more precisely, optomechanical chip.""We've been following the progress made in the development of micro
"So our goal was not only to achieve the high sensitivity of the sensor and make it compact,
Researchers have developed a highly sensitive nanomechanical sensor that can detect cancerous tumours as well as viral disease markers for HIV,
hepatitis and herpes. Researchers from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) developed the ultracompact nanomechanical sensor for analysing the chemical composition of substances and detecting biological objects.
The sensor can detect viral disease markers, which appear when the immune system responds to incurable
The sensor will also enable doctors to identify tumour markers, whose presence in the body signals the emergence and growth of cancerous tumours.
The highly sensitive sensor will allow for diagnosing diseases long before they can be detected by any other method
Dmitry Fedyanin and Yury Stebunov, showed that the new sensor will combine high sensitivity with a comparative ease of production
One chip, several millimetres in size, will be able to accommodate several thousand such sensors, configured to detect different particles or molecules,
more precisely, optomechanical chip.""We've been following the progress made in the development of micro
"So our goal was not only to achieve the high sensitivity of the sensor and make it compact,
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