This has significant implications for industries including electronics and electric vehicles which are always trying to squeeze longer discharges out of batteries."
Microelectronics to electric vehicles can benefit from energy storage devices that offer high power and high energy density. That's why researchers are working to develop a device that offers both.
I can see it being a little buggy at first but if this catches on and theres a market for this
and drive virtual vehicles too using virtual pedals and steering wheels. The options are unlimited with this combo. very exciting times for the human race.
what you need to make it workmy mum in-law got a fantastic white Cadillac CTS-V Sedan by working part time off of a home computer...
what no spacefaring vehicle ever has: offer reliable affordable and regular round-trip access to low Earth orbit.
The vehicle would have a fuselage reminiscent of the Concorde and take off like a conventional airliner accelerate to Mach 5. 2
when he was a young engineer working with Rolls-royce as part of a team tasked with developing a reusable spacecraft for British aerospace.
Rolls-royce and The british government doubtful that an easy and economical solution existed canceled the program's funding.
Imagine a fleet of these vehicles whisking payloads to LEO on a daily basis . If multiple countries operate their own fleets there will eventually be multiple payload deliveries per day.
and hit this vehicle. I read that they had a breakthrough in developing materials for the engines to enable them to survive the intense heat
I want to see vehicles that can mine asteroids. Its 2013 and we still havent even dug up that Monolith on the Moon.@
so light for its size it will not get as hot as other re-entry vehicles like the space shuttle (1100k vs 2000k).
Pets cars and family members are all scannable Asda wrote in a blog post. Asda sends digital files of the scans to a facility where they're printed then shipped back to the Asda store.
#Massive CT SCANNER Will Glean Safety Insight From Wrecked Cars Computed tomography (CT SCANNERS are great for diagnosing problems in people but what about cars?
The Fraunhofer Development Center is using the biggest CT SCANNER it can find to analyze wrecked cars.
That sounds good but how do you fit a car in a CT SCANNER? Apparently you just get a bigger scanner.
Fraunhofer is building a giant scanner that it says can be used for cars as well as to detect damage to airplane wings
A crashed car is hoisted onto a turntable. As it turns two X-ray detectors on either side scan it
or failure of specific parts across an entire car showing which where forces were directed and how each part of a car's structure reacted.
The question is: will the giant scanners actually fit in any existing crash test labs? This article written by Stephen Edelstein was published originally on Motor Authority a publishing partner of Popular Science.
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#Sewer Sensors Detect Homemade Bombs As They're Being made Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop?
A European union-funded research project spearheaded by the Swedish Defense research agency FOI aims to sniff out the telltale signs of bomb-making through the sewer system.
This article originally appeared in the October 2013 issue of Popular Science. my gf's aunt just got an awesome 6 month old Volkswagen Touareg by working parttime off of a pc.
I bought a great new Audi Quattro from earning $6538 this-4 weeks past and would you believe 10k this past-munth. it's by far the best work
The elderly obese man had drugs in his system as he stepped in front of the bus that squished him running away from his angry wife with that machete.
It does not show deaths from chronic health problems caused by drug use nor accidents (car crashes falls) nor suicides while intoxicated.
last saturday I bought a new Chevrolet from having earned $4701 this-last/4 weeks
The Rani Ki Van stepwell in India took approximately two weeks to get all the detail. Still other sites are collected incidentally.
Here cars use cameras and lasers to provide detailed travel maps capturing the curve of the road and details down to a centimeter accuracy.
either disable the attacking vehicle or cause any explosions to detonate prematurely with no American lives lost.
Provided of course the vehicle hasn't sprung a leak. We've been meaning to do this for a while says Adam Rein the company's lead director and cofounder over the buzz of the air compressor.
And instead of pouring concrete foundations and erecting a multistory tower a few people with a truck can inflate the airship on site
So if it's successful the plan's impact on carbon dioxide emissions could equate to taking every single car On earth off the road.
#For Car Buyers, The Repo Man Is Just A Click Away The problem with cars is that they move.
in order to track down repossessed vehicles. Now The New york times reports that some lenders are protecting their investments by making sure the cars are never really out of their control.
Thanks to GPS phone apps and ignition locking devices lenders can remotely shut down the car of someone who's behind on payments.
Note: This is a totally normal and not eerily dystopian thing to do. These devices mean lenders always know where the car is
and can alert the owners if they are behind on payments. Often the shutdown of a car leads to an immediate loan payment
if the borrower is capable though because these are typically subprime loans that isn t always the case.
These devices are distinct from previous attempts in car hacking not in function but in initiation.
Attempts to hack a car often involve gaining access to the car's controls without the driver's knowledge.
With lenders installing ignition-locking devices as a loan condition the cars are sold instead effectively pre-hacked d
and stature is so iconic that it launched a series of commercial vehicles. Now the Army wants to fill its light and fast shoes
and to do so they looked at three different vehicles last week during exercises in Fort Benning Georgia. Together the vehicles would enable the Army to do forcible entry missions
The first vehicle is in essence a light tank. Creatively titled Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) it s an armored vehicle that can be dropped from cargo planes.
The United states hasn't had a light parachutable tank since they retired the M551 Sheridan in 1996 and even then its performance was underwhelming;
The next vehicles is the ultra-lightweight combat vehicle (ULCV. The ULCV is in essence a turbo jeep.
It will carry a full nine person infantry squad along with their equipment up to 3200 pounds total.
The vehicle itself will weigh no more than 4500 pounds making the fully loaded and crewed vehicle under 8000 pounds.
It has to fit inside a CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter so that the crew can drive right in
or out and the vehicle should drive for at least 250 miles at full weight while also being able to survive a rollover.
While the current solicitation for the ULCV doesn't specify it a previous solicitation wanted the vehicle to to incorporate a medium caliber weapon into squad operations.
and engaging hardened enemy bunkers light armored vehicles and dismounted personnel in machine gun and sniper positions.
Together these vehicles will let the Army arrive from the sky and start fighting on day one all
while waiting for heavier vehicles and reinforcements to arrive. If they all work as expected the vehicles would add greatly to
what the Army can do early on in a war with the light tanks protecting the landing zone the combat vehicle carrying soldiers to the fight
and the light reconnaissance vehicle seeking out hidden dangers. Of course the Marines may already be there.
and soon they ll deploy vehicles too o
#Solar Car Powers Your House When It's Parked A team of twenty students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The netherlands entered the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2013 a six-day solar race
across Australia's Outback in the new Michelin Cruiser Class. Practicality was paramount for these entries
and opened the sloping rear compartment where the car's guts--motors controller etc. --were housed in little more than a couple of glorified wooden cigar boxes leaving vast amounts of empty space between the rear wheels.
Plenty of room for groceries and no need to sneak around in the dark of night to go shopping though the car does have headlights and strips of red LED taillights.
and out requires an ability to fold oneself into the low seats. It s a maneuver reminiscent of climbing in and out of Nascar stock cars through the window:
At about 14 km h the system settles into cruise mode which is as quiet as the whir of any electric vehicle.
but coming to a full stop unleashes the grinding symphony of traditional disc brakes. The unusual shape was a compromise between aerodynamics and comfort for at least two people as required by the cruiser class specifications.
The 60-kw battery sheathed in a bright yellow casing runs down the center of the vehicle
Stella is CO2-neutral and the first energy-positive car in the world. The solar array charges while the car is in motion as well as
when it is parked. We get more energy out of the car than is needed to drive it said de Renet.
That power as much as twice what the car uses can be returned to the grid. The system uses a Wi-fi protocol for vehicles 802. 11p to see where the driver cannot.
While some of the newest cars available at dealerships today use radar and cameras to detect other cars
and objects they can't transmit around corners. Wi-fi as you probably know from using it in your house for phones laptops
and gaming systems in different rooms can. Stella s sensors picked up on the signal being transmitted by a nearby speed sign
and alerted the driver on a screen fixed to the clean knob-less dashboard that the limit was 25 mph.
A tall van blocked the view of a traffic light but the V2i system onboard Stella alerted the driver to the red light before anyone in the car could see it.
As of July Stella has a permanent license plate and permission to drive on public roads s
Boeing will receive $4. 2 billion to build its CST-100 spacecraft a vehicle it has been working on for the past four years
Despite not being chosen for the program Sierra nevada plans to further develop its Shuttle-esque vehicle the Dream Chaser perhaps as a resupply vehicle or for commercial space flight t
The car passed but apparently not without a little lobbying from its parent. As state officials have monitored the robot car's mileage on public roads Google has lobbied for the car to get different tests
and to report different accident figures than the DMV wants a new series of reports finds.
Harris'work offers a detailed sense of the car's abilities. It's also a look at Google's lobbying the extent
You can see excerpts there of the car's 2012 Nevada driving test with notes and checkmarks just like you might have gotten as a nervous 16-year-old.
That's where you can see what situations the Google car is good at and in
For Quartz Harris reported on Google's lobbying not to have to report#how often its cars turn over the controls to their human drivers
The car is designed to routinely cede control when it encounters situations it can't handle.
when its cars get into accidents while a human not its algorithms is driving. The California DMV disagreed.
Once assembled in the shop the walls are shipped flat by truck to the construction site.
A team of university engineers has created a vehicle headlight that adjusts itself so that drivers can keep their high beams on even
when other cars are coming toward them. To the driver the light still looks extra-bright.
To make headlights appear dimmer to oncoming drivers the system tracks other cars and turns off only the beams that are aimed at those drivers.
whether it's cars raindrops street signs or anything else within 1 to 2. 5 milliseconds according to Carnegie mellon University.
Some car companies have created already and sold high beams that appear dimmer to other carss. Although they seem to be illegal in the U s.)Those adaptive high-beams work in much the same way aiming many beams of light at the world
(and probably too expensive and delicate) to go into cars now. The university plans to install it into a truck for testing next year.
It will take a few more years yet to miniaturize the light enough for ordinary cars s
#The Helmet That Could Change Football For decades football players have worn rigid unyielding helmets that protected the skull
and humans teaming up in separate vehicles. By the 2030s humans with robot copilots could fly alongside robots remotely controlled by humans u
so that they can travel safely through skies without hitting other vehicles. Google s driverless car program is an obvious touchstone for this project but it s a limited one.
Cars on roads travel in close proximity and only move in two dimensions. Aircraft operate in vast empty skies
Training a car to sense and avoid other cars#is simpler than doing the same for an aircraft.
Still Google s development and prior experience with cars is a strong sign that this work will continue and ultimately yield fruit.
Michael Toscano CEO of#the Association for Unmanned vehicle Systems International said thatit s worth noting that Google tested this technology in Australia first.
and moves instead of say having an airbag you use once and throw away. That saves a lot of mass you would need to fly on a mission which in turn saves on cost.
#Turning Old Lead Batteries Into New Solar energy Used car batteries can leech chemicals and create lead pollution
In newly published research the scientists show that recycled lead from car batteries works as well as fresh lead
The group's work demonstrates that the perovskite created from the lead in just one old car battery could provide materials for 30 households-worth of solar energy cells.
The research Environmentally-responsible fabrication of efficient perovskite solar cells from recycled car batteries was published recently online by the journal Energy and Environmental science.
It's#similar#to#the#challenge#of#making sure#driverless cars can safely avoid cars with human drivers
#Meet Harley davidson's First Electric motorcycle For 111 years, the Harley davidson has been known for many thingsreedom, leather,
This fall, before the motorcycle goes into production, Harley will take it on a tour of 30 dealers on both coasts to get feedback.
Harley-davidson Project Livewire Engine: Clutch-less electric motor Horsepower: 74 Fuel economy: n/a Price: n/a Range:
92 mph Car News You Should Care About 1) Ford will add adaptive steering into some models in 2015.
The technology, thus far limited to luxury vehicles, varies the steering ratio with the speed, making parking easier
and adding stability at high speeds. 2) Toyota has donated 208 used Camry Hybrid batteries to Yellowstone national park,
year) that mounts to the roof of Audi a4 and S4 sedans, and enables semi-autonomous driving on highways. 4) Honda has started using 3-D visualization technology co-developed with tech firm 3dx CITE for crash simulations.
Originally created for animated film, the software also allows for easier design changes. This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Popular Science i
The Mistral class ship is designed to carry up to 700 troops, over 60 land vehicles, and around 30 light helicopters within landing distance of a coast, where they will (in peaceful situations) arrive
and today both cars and smartphones rely on GPS satellites to know exactly where they are.
if your car could sense when you were falling asleep behind the wheel, and wake you up before you caused an accident?
combination of fibers and yarns with electrical propertiesworked into the fabrics of the seat cover
other information the project has put online suggests that it has succeeded at consistently filtering out oiselike car vibrations from the sensor data,
IEEE Spectrum notes that some luxury carmakers are already using sensors such as cameras to catch driver fatigue in time to stop accidents,
so perhaps Harken is leaving it to the auto manufacturers to figure that out a
#MERS Virus May be Able To Spread Through The Air Research strongly suggests that camels carry Middle east Respiratory Syndrome (MERS),
Articulate traction control connects three segments together with suspension joints that allow the chassis to articulate diagonally-downward
With augmented reality systems in your car signs you see could be translated automatically so that what you percieveâ is the sign in your language without distraction.
when the vehicle's attitude is beyond recovery or control in order to contain the damage from any explosion or debris in the launch area.
The Cygnus cargo vehicle destroyed on this accident was carrying a lot of small satellites owned by schools universities and startups.
One solution to overcomeâ these constraints is the use of marine drones autonomous surfaceâ orâ underwater vehicles capable of traversing great distances and operatingâ independently for prolonged periods of time.
The vehicles carry a range of instruments for observing these animals. As well as measuring the temperature of the water
C-Enduroc-Enduro is an innovative long-endurance autonomous surface vehicle built by Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV.
The vehicle was launched officially in March 2014. Built to operate in all marine environments C-Enduro uses solar panels a wind generator a lightweight diesel generator
Wave Gliderthe Wave Glider is an autonomous environmentally-friendly oceangoing vehicle developed by Liquid Robotics.
Slocum Gliderthe Slocum Glider built by Teledyne Webb Research is a high-endurance vehicle equipped with a variety of sensors.
Images and video courtesy ofâ MOST Autonomous Vessels Ltdâ Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) andâ National Oceanographic Centre t
#We#re are many steps away from wearing a device that knows what turning your car on
 Cars are in the front line with incremental modifications such as the sensory-enabled brakes already in the market.
With a product launch that has many in the industry on the edge of their seats Dyson is positioning for a leading part in the coming automation of the home and a major slice of the ripening consumer robotics market.
One challenge is to make sure the vehicles have the ability to rendezvous and perform coordinated landings autonomously.
The controller handles the nonlinearities inherent in the motions of the two vehicles and is stable in the face of multi-second time delays allowing unreliable wifi communication to be used in the landing.
when hovering over the ground vehicle. For more information you can read the paper Coordinated landing of a quadrotor on a skid-steered ground vehicle in the presence of time delays (John M. Daly Yan Ma Steven L. Waslander Autonomous
Robots Springer US July 2014) or ask questions below! Robohub is an online platform that brings together leading communicators in robotics research start-ups business and education from around the world o
The preeminent country for robotics patents is Japan with 31%of patents published the majority from Toyota.
Overall automotive patents make up around one third of the total not including other types of vehicles such as trucks buses agricultural machinery aircraft and aerospace/defence.
For example Google and Honda are contained very self in contrast to other automotive companies. Most of the patents in the UK dataset are in the field of autonomous vehicles includingâ road vehicles unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned underwater vehicles.
Roboticsâ companies in the UK dataset have very small portfolios with the largest being Notetry (5â families)
Isis Innovation Limited Qinetiq Limited and Rolls-royce Plc. Finally the rate of change in robotics patent publishing in the last 10 years is very interesting with China showing significant growth from a China to become one of the strong sources of inventions e
and is modified not a conventional Toyota. The as yet unnamed car is very small (looks smaller than a Smart)
and can accommodate two people and some luggage. It probably electric and its maximum speed is limited to 25mph (40km/h). Its most striking characteristic is that it doesn have any controls#no steering wheel accelerator
or brake pedals#and you can ride it strictly as a passenger which is probably a strange feeling but according to Google video not entirely unpleasant.
This is a purely experimental project in every aspect. Google will make about a hundred prototypes and it looks like it a very serious effort.
and where the side view mirrors would have been in a regular car. Thanks to Google previous experience with self-driving cars one can expect very good performance in real environments;
The car itself may look like a toy but it is cleverly and purposefully designed to be as cute as possible
and reduce fear of its autonomous status. Â Small cars in general may be more vulnerable in a crash with a heavier vehicle
and most small cars from established manufacturers achieve very high scores in a crash test. The main chassis is made from robust box sections of (probably) aluminum tubing and there also a tubular roll cage above.
Even the suspension wishbones look highly over-engineered for a 25mph city car. A substantial crash box is placed in the front
and above it the whole front panel is made of foam so the car is not only safe for its passengers but for pedestrians as well.
As mentioned above the most striking aspect of the car is its lack of any kind of manual control.
It was also a two-seater (loosely based on a Fiat 500) but its main feature was the interior where similarly to Google car no manual controls were present
#Transforming robots to transform your room The word#robot#conjures up many different things to many people
and automobile manufacturing food processing and the manufacturing of pharmaceutical electronic and dangerous products. The document says that there will be subsidies of up to 30000 yuan (4800 US dollars) for those who purchase
and to search vehicles. By 2007 more than 800 of these military robots were in use throughout Afghanistan Iraq and several other countries.
and that have a positive impact on the world. â#Colin Angle CEO of irobot described Google recent acquisitions as a logistics play around self driving vehicles
The vision is clearly to capitalize on the DARPA Grand Challenges as Google has done so thoroughly with the automobile/self driving challenge.
According to Mueller the algorithm allows the vehicle to remain in flight despite the loss of one two or possibly even three propellers.
#Honda automatic driverless valet parking system Honda has developed a low-cost automatic valet parking system that uses parking lot surveillance cameras to help park cars automatically.
In this demonstration when a car is left in the drop-off area of a parking lot it receives information about
This system can automatically park multiple cars efficiently. Honda sees a lot of potential in a system such as this especially
if it is implemented in the large parking lots of suburban shopping centers. f a store introduces this system customers can drop their car off in front of the store
and the car will go to a parking space automatically in cooperation with the parking lot. Then when customers come out with all their shopping they can just wait in front of the store
and the car will come to them. That the situation wee demonstrating here.?As the number of cars increases itl become essential to move them around efficiently.
So we think this kind of system will become increasingly necessary. s cars equipped with rear cameras only are the most common type in Japan Honda decided to use them in this first prototype.
Vision from the rear camera is supplemented with that from surveillance cameras to create a system that can see more around the car. he information that used to move the cars such as white lines is sent to the cars as maps.
Here wee demonstrating that kind of concept and showing that it could actually be implemented as easily as this. onda plan to create a specification
which combines car cameras and parking lot management systems and develop ways to operate them smoothly.
Honda believe that this system could be practical by or before 2020 y
#Is drone delivery really a robot startup? Australian startup Zookal is making news today with their claims to be the worldâ#first drone delivery company.
 Itâ#an exciting headline and I wish them well. But while you can quibble over who is really the first commercial drone delivery company
 This inflexion point has occurred many times in various industries most notably the automotive industry in the 70s and 80s.
or nanorobots our robots are programmed to behave as simple remote control cars and tuned to listen to the same frequency.
and can model robots including roombas tanks and cars. It has two inputs: forward speed and turning rate.
You can test this out by purchasing several RC cars tuned to the same radio frequency.
If you command the cars to go forward all will move forward. If you command them to turn all turnbut due to process noise all turn a slightly different amount.
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