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Those segments bind the RNA in different locations lining up along it like Christmas lights along a roof


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The hotels I go have large clean swimming pools. I never swim in other's sewage r


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www. crownbees. com/beeactionthe power of the backyard is immense. With the protections afforded telecomms

which include transmission towers (cellular and digital television broadcasting) fluorescent lighting Wi-fi Power lines and certain appliances.


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and designed and kept in the silos of universities Prakash says. He wants to bring them to the masses.


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As if animated by the same mind the13 patrol boats all moved in unison their crewless decks painting a picture of


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And instead of pouring concrete foundations and erecting a multistory tower a few people with a truck can inflate the airship on site

and building their first balsa-wood prototype high-altitude wind energy was still largely unknown. Altaeros has grown now to a 10-person operation

whose towers can overturn without substantial reinforcement. It solves a lot of the headaches that offshore developers have today in putting these big turbines out there says Glass the company's CEO and CTO.

of which have carved out space in the building's cavernous fabrication area. Glass tells me to try lifting the fin


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and will need room to move as temperatures rise in coming decades. Importantly many corporations and indigenous groups are partnering on this effort along with governments and conservationists.

and the people who love them) from around the country and the world onto the streets of New york city just a couple days before the climate summit on Sunday September 21.


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Essentially the EES is a bridge that bypasses the spinal cord injury. The technology has given already paralyzed rats

The new turning algorithm also helped the rats to overcome more complicated obstacles in the form of rodent-sized staircases

Because the frequency modulation helped the rats to take larger steps those rats had a much easier time walking up the staircases.

They climbed the staircases successfully in 99 out of 100 attempts whereas the rats who used the old technology tumbled against

and failed to pass the lower staircase (Aww.).According to the researchers the modulated signal may be more effective


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but in the future hybrid robot teams like this one could venture into ruined buildings to save trapped humans.


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#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

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.

It s a maneuver reminiscent of climbing in and out of Nascar stock cars through the window:

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.


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or The bridge has collapsed just. PS: In what way are used they? PM: On the Micromappers app volunteers classify and geolocate these calls for help.

Once we know what huts without roofs look like from a bird s-eye view we can run algorithms on photos to accelerate damage assessments.


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Once assembled in the shop the walls are shipped flat by truck to the construction site.

which will hold the wall panels upright in the finished building. But it s not only the speed at which the walls are built that's helpful.

Jenkins explains that some buildings such as hospitals may need to reconfigure their interior panels quickly to make way for another patient with different needs.

Not only that but they need to be sensitive to rapid technology changes as well. Hospitals are making decisions for

Which is why DIRTT also offers modular walls that are flexible and can be interchanged like toy blocks.

Our clients should be able to repurpose our walls to reflect those changes. Despite the company's advancements in construction technology however it hasn t been able to design for the residential market just yet.


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and a long barrow--a huge wooden building believed to have been used as a mortuary for bodies after defleshing.


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It can sense upcoming street signs and shine more light onto them. And it can make raindrops

whether it's cars raindrops street signs or anything else within 1 to 2. 5 milliseconds according to Carnegie mellon University.


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but the Japanese team members wanted to demonstrate they could harvest their product and feed it into the same machines silk factories use.

A silkworm that makes spider proteins could be a gentle little biological silk factory spinning out a super-strong product.

and knit the threads into cloth just like silk factories do. The researchers are now planning to try to raise their genetically engineered silkworms at commercial farms the Japan Times reports.


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We're pushing beyond the traditional approach of building rigid robots where forces magnify around joints


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#The $3500 GSMK Cryptophone s firewall even blocks snoops that can impersonate cell towers.####Free on any platformpros It allows you to query Google without accepting cookies

##$40 hidecell. compros Storing your phone in a metal-lined bag will eliminate surveillance possibilities by blocking cell-tower signals along with your Wi-fi GPS and Bluetooth connections.


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It also means surgeons didn need t to use cement or screws to hold it in place as they do manufactured with traditionally implants;


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the unmanned X-47b took off from the carrier's deck followed by a manned#F/A-18 Hornet.

Then the X-47b landed on the deck folded up its wings and an operator on the deck steered the drone aside

while#the Hornet landed on the same deck. It might be a simple concept but successfully integrating both manned and unmanned aircraft into the same flight patterns especially on the confined space of an aircraft carrier is essential for future operations.

It's#similar#to#the#challenge#of#making sure#driverless cars can safely avoid cars with human drivers


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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.


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According to Sharma, part of the funding will benefit the ongoing construction of a pilot housing project to accommodate 1000 labourers at first and up to 5000 workers over the next three years.


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In order for a robot to be useful in our world it must traverse unpredictable obstacles including stairs.

The three-section waterproofed boxes are empty providing 450+sq. inches of free space for electronics along with open deck space for mounting payloads.


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Hangar One the biggest and most colorful of the buildings on the site will be restored. Also Hangars Two and Three.


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According to the NY Timesâ Mr. Rubin#s departure is part of a series of recent executive moves that seem to give Mr. Page more room to focus on the company#s longer-term bets#like robotics


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Both usually have room and payload to spare so they're used extensively for transporting experiments.


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The Government will seek to improve (factory) Â productivity through the utilization of robot technology thereby improving the profitability of companies and helping to raise wages.


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and a half from my bedroom proving that sometimes you don need a big robotics laboratory to start something great!


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and would use computer vision to navigate a room. Imperial#s Professor Davison has spoken also about the importance of  location tracking:


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and various hotel platforms as well asâ efficiently navigating throughout the property#including the elevator#with speedsâ up to 4 mph.


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conducting robot research and development (R&d) and building comprehensive capabilities; expanding robot demand across all industries; constructing an open robot industry ecosystem;


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The software Edware is open source and compatible with Windows Mac and Linux. Programs download into the robot via the supplied Edcomm cable that plugs into the headphone jack of your computer.


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The Projector Droneâ that we have built in Melbourne Australia is one of my favorite in-house projects.


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But the potential of robotics goes far beyond the factory: from helping nurses in hospitals to inspecting dangerous power plants and tedious farm work.


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It is equipped with multiple sensors (a big LIDAR on its roof is probably doing most of the work)


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#Transforming robots to transform your room The word#robot#conjures up many different things to many people

Using connector ports embedded in the floor walls and ceiling Roombots can crawl and climb on any surface meaning that furniture does need not to be connected only to the floor

or stick to the wall. Â As it may not always be embed possible to ports everywhere in the room the Roombots have also been designed to be able to#walk#using an oscillating motion controlled by a network of coupled oscillators in the modules to allow them to travel across a room.

and technical challenges such as compensating unwanted bending in the mechanical structure (related to building larger complex 3d structures) developing the best-suited algorithms for reconfiguration


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Until recently Gazebo was only accessible on the desktop. Gzweb Gazebo web client allows visualization of simulations in a web browser.

Louise implemented the graphics using Webgl. The interface includes menus suitable for mobile devices and multi-touch interactions to navigate the 3d scene.


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#Urban vegetable garden system with LED lighting Keystone Technology LED vegetable garden system is a cultivation system for indoor plant factories that uses LED lighting instead of sunlight.

On the other hand plants that grow upwards can be planted with smaller intervals so a greater number of stalks can be cultivated. his plant factory itself has been here for over 20 years

and green lighting the produce displayed at a plant factory exhibition in July 2010 was our company first ever. ommercially available

since 2010 this system has been installed in various factories offices and eateries nationwide such as by a leading eating establishment that has installed 48 units in its processing factory in Kanagawa Prefecture.

As workers in Japan agricultural industry age it is becoming more difficult to obtain safe and delicious vegetables through traditional farming techniques.


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The botâ#inbuilt flippers allow it 360 degrees of rotation enabling it to negotiate rough terrain and even obstacles like logs rocks rubble and stairs.

Its robust body can survive a fall from a two meter height to a concrete surface being flung through a window and falling downstairs.


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and condominiums is expected to be complete by the end of 2018. The Masan park was scheduled originally to open in January of 2014.


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and that when Google solved the first mile/last mile problem irobot was planning on meeting them at the house door.


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#Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests â#7. 9m to make robotics affordable for SMES Factory-in-a-Day is an EU initiative to develop a robotic system that is inexpensive leasable

and can be set up and working in 24 hours. The goal is to make advanced robotic systems

Factory-in-a-Day aims to develop a system that can be purposed easily re for new product lines  by reducing the system integration time to a single day the project hopes to minimize investment risk for SMES.


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when it comes to investing in novel delivery systems their $775 million investment last year in Kiva Systems brought large-scale automation to their warehouse floors in an effort to improve efficiency.

Check out this new video by Mark Mueller out of Raffaello Dndrea Flying Machine Arena at ETH Zurich

and note that Dndrea is the tech wizard behind Kiva robotic warehouse##the video shows a novel fail safe algorithm that allows an unmanned aerial vehicle to recover


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and the power of machine learning The team at the ETH Flying Machine Arena has released three new videos demonstrating quadrotors building tensile structures tossing a ball back and forth


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Drones are the gateway for consumer robotics where the robot is a tool that anyone can use.


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From now on we think it will be extended to purposes apart from factory automation such as healthcare. c


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#Students hope their ship inspection robot will significantly reduce dry-dock time for maritime transport industry,

while the other two illuminate the ground in a flat angle so as to make bumps and small edges more visible thanks to the longer shadow they cast on the ground.


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They are just 2 microns thick just 1/5 that of kitchen wrap and weighing only 3g/m 2 are 30 times lighter than office paper.

because you can fabricate high performance devices in a flat state and then just transfer them over to a stretchable substrate


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which was easy to fabricate in-house and it provided sufficient thrust for the purposes of lift

when flying over a flat surface. We have designed each unit with magnetic interfaces located along each of its six sides.


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Another gets two of its propellers cut off yet still easily flies across the arena. Â t looks like magic!

and that was just to get to the point where they could do the demos in-house.

and started setting up almost right away inâ a dedicated room where the talk was filmed and where all their demonstrations will take place throughout the week.

Check out the pages of ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena team and more Robohub articles on how quadrocopters learn acrobatic maneuvers cooperate to throw

Markus Waibel works with Raff Dndrea and the Flying Machine Arena team at ETH Zurich Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control.


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and a two-component thermosetting polymer to build up objects on any working surface that the polymer can adhere to including floors walls and ceilings without the need for additional support structures.


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#Gecko adhesives allow flying robot to perch on walls The Airburr a lightweight flying robot from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (my Phd lab) at EPFL was designed to fly in cluttered environments.

Just like you might trail your hand along a wall to find your way in the dark the robot can bounce of walls

or sticky substances to climb up walls geckos use Van der waals forces between the tip of each hair


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Just the other day Rethink upgraded their operating system to V1. 1 to make it easier to integrate existing factory machine synchronization

###Once purchased our users can expect a steady stream of software upgrades giving them access to all the new features on the latest robots to leave the factory.

Features Comparisona Couple of Examples of How These Robots Are Being Usedat a Johnson & johnson factory in Greece a UR5 is used on a production line where it performs repetitive pick


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We think that would enable genetically modified foods to be tested while still in the warehouse. i


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#Parrot AR. Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.


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factory environments isn easy. When those environments have people in them, they are especially unpredictable and difficult for a robot to navigate.


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surrounding the drone body they keep the distance of the Drone from big objects like a Wall or a pile of Big Boxes.


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and then walking through a disaster zone (e g. a damaged building) to locate victims so that human rescue teams can concentrate their efforts where they are needed,


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resulting in efficient lift production due to the conventional wing design. Compared to other fixed-wing,


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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


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#Biologist creates'self-healing'concrete No matter how carefully it is mixed or reinforced, all concrete eventually cracks,

"The problem with cracks in concrete is leakage, "explains professor Henk Jonkers, of Delft University of Technology, in The netherlands."

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

--if they corrode, the structure collapses.""But Jonkers has come up with an entirely new way of giving concrete a longer life."

"We have invented bioconcrete--that's concrete that heals itself using bacteria, "he says. The bioconcrete is mixed just like regular concrete,

but with an extra ingredient--the"healing agent.""It remains intact during mixing, only dissolving and becoming active

if the concrete cracks and water gets in. Jonkers, a microbiologist, began working on it in 2006,

"You need bacteria that can survive the harsh environment of concrete, "says Jonkers.""It's a rocklike, stonelike material, very dry."

"The next challenge was not only to have the bacteria active in concrete, but also to make them produce repair material for the concrete--and that is limestone,

"Jonkers explains. In order to produce limestone the bacilli need a food source. Sugar was one option, but adding sugar to the mix would create soft, weak, concrete.

When cracks eventually begin to form in the concrete, water enters and open the capsules.

Now Jonkers hopes his concrete could be the start of a new age of biological buildings."


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Walmart could start using drones to start delivering things to your house Amazon and Walmart have been jockeying for position in the battle to be the number one U s. retailer.

The application would allow Walmart to use drones at its warehouses and around customershomes and the reports suggests the giant retailer is ready to start flying drones as soon as the FAA settles on its new rules for commercial drone use.

Walmart plans to use drones from DJI to monitor inventories outside their warehouses, deliver packages to customers, many of


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and officials said it caused buildings to collapse in Chinese-controlled Tibet. A second tremor of 6. 3 magnitude struck around half an hour later,

four people have been killed due to collapsed buildings,"Paul Dillon, spokesman for the International organization for Migration, told AFP.

I ran out of my house and barely escaped. This one felt just like that one.

residents were terrified that buildings which were damaged already badly could come crashing down. 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.

said she had rushed out onto the street after grabbing her eight-year-old son and 12 year-old daughter."

"The quake was also felt some 1, 000 kilometers away in the Indian capital New delhi where buildings shook and office workers evacuated.

including Bihar where television footage showed residents gathering on the streets and goods having toppled over in shop windows.

A Chinese official at the Tibet regional seismological bureau said there had been reports of damage but no casualties."

"According to local government, some houses damaged by the previous earthquake collapsed. Since residents were transferred to safe areas last time

and are still living in tents, no casualties have been reported so far.""While nearly all of those killed by the April 25 quake were in Nepal,


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Skype Translator was made available as a free download at the Windows Store for computers or tablets running on the latest version of Microsoft's operating software, according to Kahn.


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It generates waves by pushing water back and forth against a wall that nearly 33 feet high.


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or the decks of rocking boats. Touching down on uneven surfaces is something that today's helicopters are equipped just not to do, according to the Defense Advanced Projects Agency,

such as the deck of a rocking ship at sea. Watch the video below. The robotic system is very different from


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#Smart Mirror Diagnoses Health problems Mirror, mirror on the wall, what my cholesterol level? The Wize Mirror, developed by 11 European research groups,

but also a gateway to the health of an individual


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#China Announces World Largest Cap 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.

steel, cement and other industries producing most of the country greenhouse gas emissions. The program is meant to complement the Obama administration Clean Power Plan,

president of the World Resources Institute, a global natural resources think tank, said in a statement that Friday announcement lays a cornerstone for a global climate agreement in Paris in December. hese two countries have found common ground


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because people really want windows that don shatter and you can say same thing for screens on laptops and phones.


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mentioning technologies that would make buildings or vehicles more energy efficient as one example.""But as we tackle economy wide emissions


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Theye voracious parasites that burrow into gut walls and devour nutrients like a nightmarish version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.


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#Tiny ant takes on pesticide industry Few people like antshey bite and overrun kitchen counters.


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who tests cure strategies. here really is zero room for error. Several previous studies have explored


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what it opens up is a new window into the quantum world, where materials with new properties can be studied. oing forward,

including quantum Hall physics and topological insulators. e are adding new perspectives to physics, Ketterle says. e are touching on the unknown,


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#A bipedal robot with human reflexes Deep in the basement of MIT Building 3, a two-legged robot named HERMES is wreaking controlled havoc:

As Ramos mimes punching through a wall, the robot does the same. When the robot fist hits the wall, Ramos feels a jolt at his waist.

By reflex, he leans back against the jolt, causing the robot to rock back, effectively balancing the robot against the force of its punch.

while the robot may successfully punch through a wall, it would also fall headlong into that wall.

The interface allows a human to remotely feel the robot shifting weight, and quickly adjust the robot balance by shifting his own weight.

As a result, the robot can carry out momentum-driven tasks like punching through walls, or swinging a bat

In one test, the robot unexpectedly got its arm stuck in the wall. But, because the human was in the loop,


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and many street cars that can rotate upwards to increase traction on the tires by increasing drag

Other programmable materials could pay off in improved building environments. e want materials that transform themselves, depending on sunlight, moisture, humidity levels,


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if we want to demonstrate a new architecture that wel be allowed to manipulate the factory in any way.


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and rearrange material building blocks in almost any conceivable shape. The work suggests that engineers will be able to reach the next stage of materials design through fundamental control of a protein final assembled structure. atriarch could very well be the core of a new molecular design process,

and Environmental engineering (CEE) postdoc Tristan Giesa 5, co-author of the study. he idea is to start at ground level.

A bottom-up design process Given a few basic building blocks and instructions, Matriarch builds hierarchical structures of proteins

thus use Matriarch to perform building block substitutions, and structural changes, to study their effect on the functionality of a material. ur program is specialized on protein-based materials,

The team tested their program on collagen protein one of the most common building materials found in mammals, with a range of potential applications in synthetic design.

and how their subsequences organize themselves as building blocks on a variety of scales. Ultimately, they hope to create an extensible database of structures for engineers to estimate the final configuration that a new material


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and generate an all-in-one building skin that is at once structural and transparent? she asks. ecause glass is at once structural and transparent,


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But don think there are any huge barriersto building such a demonstration, he says. n theory,


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and body movements as subtle as the rise and fall of a person chest from the other side of a house, allowing a mother to monitor a baby breathing

the team presents a new technology called RF Capture that picks up wireless reflections off the human body to see the silhouette of a human standing behind a wall.

and even distinguish between 15 different people through a wall with nearly 90 percent accuracy.

and move in a specific room full of cameras, says Phd student Fadel Adib, who is lead author on the new paper.

even if they are behind furniture or walls. The device's motion-capturing technology makes it equally valuable for smart homes,

or to adjust your heating by monitoring where you are in the house. Future versions could be integrated into gaming interfaces,

allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on

How it works The device works by transmitting wireless signals that traverse the wall and reflect off a person body back to the device.


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#Wifi Calling offers coverage for UK homes, small offices EE on Tuesday announced the launch of Wifi Calling to make calls and texts available in every home and small office in the UK.

will benefit over 4 million people across the UK who lose connection in at least one room in their home.

000 adults) found almost one in ten people have one room or more in their home where they have no mobile connectivity.

What's more, the National Association of Estate agents said Wifi Calling can stop house sellers suffering from losing out because of poor mobile coverage.

when they're buying a house innovations like this can help sellers ensure they are maximizing the value of their home

"Wifi Calling will make a real difference to millions of customers across the UK, from basement flats in London to the most rural homes in the country."


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