The European union-funded Autonomous vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool (AVERT) project is intended a system to remove suspicious vehicles where there is concern over potential threats like IEDS,
but the vehicle can't be accessed safely by other bomb disposal tools. AVERT consists of a single deployment unit and four autonomous robot bogies
or trucks--frames attached to wheels like on skateboards or roller skates. After being towed into position by a bomb-disposal robot,
AVERT's deployment unit can scan locations of a targeted vehicle using laser-based LIDAR,
It can even detect the angle of the wheels on the vehicle in question to help figure out the best way to remove it.
The bogies then maneuver themselves in concert beneath the wheels of the target vehicle, and use their onboard intelligence to slowly move the vehicle to a safe location.
The biggest advantage of AVERT is that it's largely autonomous. While it can be overridden by a remote operator if necessary
including vehicle towing and perhaps even automatic parking in environments where space is limited. The good news is that
when the robot valet parks your car, you don't even have to tip p
#Scientists Are Figuring Out How To Change Blood types At some point in your life, youe probably been asked to donate blood.
But theye hardly the only way for flying vehicles to stay level. The Beerotor drone made by roboticists Fabien Expert and Franck Ruffier at Aix Marseille University in Marseille,
but most of the vehicles it be mounted on are armored already enough to protect people inside from the shrapnel that comes with a bomb blast.
creating a plasma shield in between the explosion and the vehicle. The plasma's temperature and density help deflect
but the design is written broadly enough that it can potentially protect everything from ships to submarines, offshore platforms, ground vehicles, buildings,
For example, a lightly armored vehicle like a HMMWV might use the force field against a small explosion
But like organic foods or hybrid vehicles, it will help the environment. he more solar we use,
or a bus trip across town. he Contactless Jacket was launched in September 2. It is available in True Black and Admiral Blue colors.
What kind of car is this? s a blind person you don really think about the things that you might be able to see
but for the Univ. of Cincinnati (UC)' s Yoonjee Park, assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Applied science biomedical engineering professor, these words are central to every conversation relating to her cutting edge research on drug delivery vehicles.
The area in which Park has established herself as an expert is the field of study related to the creation and monitoring of delivery vehicles that carry medicine to specific locations within the body.
"Usually I use nanoparticles for drug delivery vehicles, and we can attach image and contrast agents to the nanoparticle to track the particle.
Using vehicles made with perfluorocarbons, Park and Lin have created bio-safe, durable, reliable vehicles that can be inserted into the discs
and traced via medical imaging. Lin says that these vehicles, described as"droplets, "enter the bloodstream
and are tracked"without opening up the body"to provide real time feedback and manipulation. Park says,
the vehicles can be popped"to systematically release the drug as needed. This technique allows for minimized invasive treatment,
"says Park of her attempt to create an effective drug delivery vehicle, and she herself is no stranger to this work,
Her Phd at Purdue University and her research at Boston's Massachusetts institute of technology were dedicated both to studying particle stabilization to avoid clogging arteries with the nanoparticles and drug delivery vehicles;
creating a vehicle that could be programmed to travel to specific destinations; tracking this vehicle with medical imaging;
and learning how drugs could be released time at the proper time. With the support of the Univ. of Cincinnati behind her efforts, Park hopes to be able to overcome the barriers that have slowed others,
Already envisaged scenarios include its use as fuel for vehicles or for producing carbon-based energy carriers.
#A better way to pack natural gas into fuel tanks A new and innovative way to store methane could speed the development of natural gas-powered cars that don require the high pressures
or cold temperatures of today compressed or liquefied natural gas vehicles. Natural gas is cleaner-burning than gasoline,
and today there are more than 150,000 compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles on the road in the U s, . most of them trucks and buses. But until manufacturers can find a way to pack more methane into a tank at lower pressures and temperatures,
allowing for a greater driving range and less hassle at the pump, passenger cars are unlikely to adopt natural gas as a fuel.
whereas compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles compress natural gas into an empty tank under 250 atmospheres (3, 600 psi).
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles operate at lower pressures but require significant insulation in the tank system to maintain the natural gas at minus-162 degrees Celsius (minus-260 degrees Fahrenheit)
Next-gen NG vehicles Long said that next-generation natural gas vehicles will require a material that binds the methane and packs it more densely into the fuel tank, providing a larger driving range.
which results in natural gas vehicles with a shorter driving range per fill up. In order to advance onboard natural gas storage, Ford motor company teamed up with UC Berkeley on this project, with funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agencynergy (ARPA-E) of the U s. Dept of energy.
Ford is a leader in CNG/propane-prepped vehicles with more than 57,000 sold in the U s. since 2009, more than all other major U s. automakers combined.
along with serving to increase natural gas-powered vehicle driving range within the limited cargo space. atural gas storage in porous materials provides the key advantage of being able to store significant amounts of natural gas at low pressures
the principal investigator of this ARPA-E project. he advantage of low pressure is the benefit it provides both onboard the vehicle and off-board at the station.
hoping to use them to capture carbon dioxide emitted from power plants or store hydrogen in hydrogen-fueled vehicles,
-and would enable an electric car with a battery that is a fifth the cost and a fifth the weight of those currently on the market to drive from London to Edinburgh on a single charge.
electric cars and grid-scale storage for solar power.""In their simplest form, batteries are made of three components:
dysprosium and praseodymium for growing the clean tech sector-including electric vehicles, according to Kevin Cassidy, ceo of US Rare earths, Inc I
or to remember a few hours later where you parked your car in a multi-storey car park. Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health condition that causes a range of psychological symptoms,
#Eco-friendly 3d printed supercar Kevin Czinger of Divergent Microfactories has spent most of his career in the automotive industry.
or how few tailpipe emissions the modern car has, the business of car manufacturing is destroying the environment."
"3d printing of metal radically changes that. By looking at 3d printing not for that overall structure
According to Czinger, 3d printing transforms everything by changing the way the structural components of cars are fabricated.
Currently cars are pieced together on long assembly lines inside large factories that use massive amounts of energy.
Even the most fuel efficient car has a large carbon footprint before ever leaving the plant. Czinger and his team's approach was to take the large plant out of the equation.
the entire vehicle only weighs 1400 pounds (635kg), giving it twice the weight to horsepower ratio of a Bugatti Veyron.
Balzer says designing an eco-friendly speed demon supercar as their first prototype was intentional.""We focused a lot on the aesthetics of this car
because it is very important to capture the people's imaginations, especially when we are talking about the core enabling technologies,
The core enabling technology, the ability to print out car components that can be assembled easily,
is what Kevin Czinger hopes will revolutionize car manufacturing. He says electric cars are a step in the right direction,
but alone they won't be enough to curb greenhouse emissions given the projected rise in demand for cars globally
unless the way they are manufactured changes.""By constructing a car this way it has less than one third of the environmental
and health impact than the 85 hours all electric car for example has added, "he. Czinger and Balzer are starting small
but they believe their new 3d printing method for car manufacturing will have a huge impact on how the cars of the future are built t
#New tidal energy system could help POWER UK, say developers A British company, in conjunction with Oxford university researchers, believes it has devised a way to overcome this obstacle by creating a new type of horizontal axis turbine that can be used underwater at depths of up to 30 meters, at an economical cost.
#Japanese engineer develops world's first'car in a bag'Pocket-sized personal transporters could soon be seen on the streets of Tokyo.
A Japanese engineer has developed a portable transporter small enough to be carried in a backpack that he says is the world's first'car in a bag'.
and resembles a skateboard more than a car. The slender Walkcar is made from aluminum and weighs between two and three kilograms (4. 4 to 6. 6 pounds),
while simply stepping off stops the vehicle. To change direction, the user just shifts their weight.
Sato said his studies in electric car motor control systems sparked the idea for the new kind of ride."
since I was doing my masters in engineering specifically on electric car motor control systems, "he told Reuters. Sato says he is confident that Walkcar goes beyond bulkier devices such as the Segway or Toyota's Winglet."
#European Researchers Create Acoustic Tractor Beam t was an incredible experience the first time we saw the object held in place by the tractor beam.
The tractor beam crated by Marzo and his colleagues uses high-amplitude sound waves to generate an acoustic hologram
The tractor beam works by surrounding the object with high-intensity sound and this creates a force field that keeps the objects in place.
The researchers have shown that three different shapes of acoustic force fields work as tractor beams. The first is an acoustic force field that resembles a pair of fingers or tweezers.
and his van collided with a boat and a trailer. None of the boys was injured severely,
#Sonic Tractor Beam Invented A team of researchers have built the world's first sonic tractor beam that can lift
Tractor beams can grab and lift objects, a concept that has been used by science-fiction writers and has fascinated since scientists and engineers.
Researchers have built now a working tractor beam that uses high-amplitude sound waves to generate an acoustic hologram
The tractor beam works by surrounding the object with high-intensity sound and this creates a force field that keeps the objects in place.
The team have shown that three different shapes of acoustic force fields work as tractor beams. The first is an acoustic force field that resembles a pair of fingers or tweezers.
as well as producing'electrolyte fuels'that might be used to power future electric vehicles,"one of the team,
whereas ex-lorry driver Lane was busy in his garden shed in Coleford, Gloucestershire. The radio enthusiast had spent several weeks trying to make contact with the space station after learning it was due to pass over his house."
#Japanese engineers have created the world's first'car in a bag'Getting around is about to look a lot different.
and his team at Cocoa Motors, have created a laptop-sized personal vehicle that weighs less than seven pounds.
'is described as a'car in a bag 'because it can easily carried around. It sort of like a small, four-wheeled electric skateboard meets a Segway.
Check out video below to see the vehicle in action n
#New device can immediately target and destroy deadly blood clots Australian researchers have developed a nano-sized capsule that can be delivered to a patient intravenously to immediately target
#The UK is trialling a new road surface that charges your electric car as you drive One of the problems with being on the cutting edge of electric car technology is you're not as sure of being able to find a filling station as all the petrol-burning drivers around you.
that sort of'range anxiety'could be gone for good-the roads actually charge your car as you drive.
A select number of cars will be fitted with the requisite wireless charging technology and a test road will be built to show how smaller substations, AC/AC converters,
but it would certainly increase the amount of time cars could last between full charges at home or a designated charging station."
"Vehicle technologies are advancing at an ever increasing pace and wee committed to supporting the growth of ultra-low emissions vehicles on England motorways and major A roads,"Highways England chief highways engineer,
Mike Wilson, said in a press statement.""The off-road trials of wireless power technology will help to create a more sustainable road network for England
Electric car charging points won't be dismissed completely, however, and Highways England has said it's committed to installing plug-in facilities every 48 km along the motorway network.
The tests come after a feasibility study looking into how dynamic battery charging could solve the problem of electric vehicles running out of juice,
encouraging electric cars onto the road would make a lot of financial sense for the UK government. A similar idea is already in use in South korea,
and cars in just a few years, say the researchers. lectrochemical splitting of water could provide a cheap,
The researchers call their new method agnetic field human body communication The technique uses the body as a vehicle to deliver magnetic energy between wearable electronic gadgets.
his research may help computers get better at teaching themselves to do everything from driving a car to making an omelette,
They are planned also for use in the next Mars rover vehicle, "said Laws.""But if they become easier and cheaper to make,
Or cars made from the material. Because, let's face it, plastic is great and all but we could all use a little more durability in our lives v
"In hybrid and electric cars, such recovery systems can help improve range, but in large heavily-packed passenger trains running regularly in one of the most heavily traveled cities in the world,
which is expected to extract 1 million tonnes per day-the equivalent of taking 100 cars off the road every year.
and long-haulage trucks. Even existing petrol pumps can work with the fuel. A major limitation of solar and wind technologies, on the other hand, is that they require specific technologies to capture
not just for smartphones but for electric cars and solar power, where batteries are essential for storing energy to use
crucial if we're to put these batteries into millions of cars and smartphones, was reached by using a'fluffy'carbon electrode made from graphene.
as electrical vehicles and personal electronic devices become more ubiquitous in our daily lives, it is becoming increasingly necessary to have more efficient systems for localized electrical power generation and effective cooling mechanisms.
it could translate into less expensive consumer devices and even less expensive electric cars. Yao's research group focuses on green and sustainable organic materials for energy generation and storage.
#Discovery may be breakthrough for hydrogen cars The team's new findings, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help speed the widespread arrival of the hydrogen-powered vehicles in a way that is inexpensive
and has extremely low carbon emissions.""This means we have demonstrated the most important step toward a hydrogen economy--producing distributed and affordable green hydrogen from local biomass resources,
enzymatic reactions such as those being used in this system generate high-purity hydrogen, perfect for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
"We believe this exciting technology has the potential to enable the widespread use of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles around the world
cheaper and more powerful and durable than lithium-ion batteries common in mobile phones and laptops and increasingly used in hybrid and electric cars.
Other approaches for injecting materials into cells--such as using viruses as delivery vehicles or chemical methods--are only useful for small molecules,
#Researchers find protein that may signal more aggressive prostate cancers Biomarkers in the body are analogous to the warning lights in cars that signal something might need repairing.
Frank Koppens and ICREA Prof. at ICFO Niek van Hulst, in collaboration with scientists from the research group led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at MIT
As Prof. van Hulst states""it is amazing how graphene allows direct nonlinear detecting of ultrafast femtosecond (fs) pulses."
we could advance large-scale renewable energy storage technologies for electric cars and microgrids, "he says. Jin also believes that the novel X-ray imaging technique will facilitate the studies of other technologically important solid-state transformations
#Scientists create cheaper magnetic material for cars, wind turbines Karl A. Gschneidner and fellow scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Ames Laboratory have created a new magnetic alloy that is an alternative to traditional rare-earth permanent magnets.
the naturally occurring minerals with unique magnetic properties that are used in electric vehicle (EV) motors, and wind generators.
"Exosomes are engineered by nature to be the perfect delivery vehicles for proteins and genetic material, "Batrakova says."
These packages of medicine will be ignored by the patient's immune system, which works against unknown proteins as well as many synthetic delivery vehicles s
enable collision avoidance technologies on cars and allow virtual reality (VR) headsets to be used outdoors. The researchers'new centimeter-accurate GPS coupled with a smartphone camera could be used to quickly build a globally referenced 3-D map of one's surroundings that would greatly expand the radius of a VR game.
"Humphreys and his team in the Radionavigation Lab have built a low-cost system that reduces location errors from the size of a large car to the size of a nickel--a more than 100 times increase in accuracy.
where centimeter-accurate GPS could lead to better vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology.""If your car knows in real time the precise position
and velocity of an approaching car that is blocked from view by other traffic, your car can plan ahead to avoid a collision,
"Humphreys said. Further information: http://gpsworld. com/accuracy-in-the-palm-of-your-hand d
#'Microcombing'creates stronger, more conductive carbon nanotube films"It's a simple process and can create a lightweight CNT film,
"said Ute Neugebauer, group leader at the Jena University Hospital and Leibniz Institute of technology. What exactly does the team's medical device detect?"
Few people would look at a car, an airplane or a farming tool and appreciate the durable layers protecting its parts.
"This includes automobiles, with parts that bear the burden of heavy loads, erosion and corrosion.
which uses the body as a vehicle to deliver magnetic energy between electronic devices. An advantage of this system is that magnetic fields are able to pass freely through biological tissues,
"Just like you have a car that you're running into the ground--things don't work right
but conventional, motorized trackers are too heavy and bulky for pitched rooftops and vehicle surfaces.
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
FOM workgroup leader prof. dr. Bart van Wees and his Phd student Ludo Cornelissen, both from the University of Groningen and FOM workgroup leader dr. Rembert
"That gives us hope they can be used as vehicles for improving fertility and the chances of producing healthy embryos and offspring."
"Cooler cars Zhu said the technology has significant potential for any outdoor device or system that demands cooling
"Say you have a car that is bright red, "Zhu said.""You really like that color,
but you'd also like to take advantage of anything that could aid in cooling your vehicle during hot days.
and totally redesigned its core to repurpose its infectious capabilities into a safe vehicle for delivering vaccines
The new paper describes how the Stanford team designed a viruslike particle that is only a delivery vehicle with no infectious payload.
such as running a car tyre over it, the electrical output was uniformed highly and there was no damage to the functionality of the device.
along with Professors Andrei Fedorov and Suresh Sitaraman from the School of Mechanical engineering, developed a thermal design vehicle to emulate challenging power maps to test the benefits of microfluidic cooling."
Engineers build better energy storage device Mcmaster Engineering researchers Emily Cranston and Igor Zhitomirsky are turning trees into energy storage devices capable of powering everything from a smart watch to a hybrid car.
and high-power electronics, such as wearable devices, portable power supplies and hybrid and electric vehicles.""Ultimately the goal of this research is to find ways to power current and future technology with efficiency
Lightweight and high-power density capacitors are of particular interest for the development of hybrid and electric vehicles.
where sensors in cars, located in devices like flow meters, position sensors and interlocks, are made currently of silicon or indium antimonide.
For instance, when there is a change in temperature due to the car's air-conditioner or heat from the sun,
properties of the conventional sensors in the car change as well. To counter this, a temperature correction mechanism is required, incurring additional production cost.
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#Plastic parts for internal combustion engines Efforts to produce lighter vehicles necessarily include engine parts, such as the cylinder casing,
Fraunhofer ICT It self-evident that cars must become lighter in order to reduce fuel consumption. For most car designers this principally means body parts
but the powertrain system, which includes the engine, also accounts for a large proportion of the vehicle weight.
Until now, carmakers have relied on aluminum to reduce the weight of engine components such as the cylinder block.
In the future, car manufacturers will be able to achieve further weight savings by designing cylinder blocks in which certain parts are made of fiber-reinforced plastics.
which the piston moves up and down millions of times during the life of the vehicle. The researchers also modified the geometry of these parts to ensure that the plastic is exposed to as little heat as possible.
whether the carmaker wishes to optimize the engine in terms of costs or in terms of weight. The researchers produce these components from granulated thermoset plastics using an injection molding process.
whether the platform is designed for electric vehicles or a flow battery for grid applications, Persson said. hat we can do is calculate the properties of a large number of molecules
the technology enables swarms of compact UAVS to take off from ships, tactical vehicles, aircraft or other unmanned platforms.
cigarette smoke and car fumes and airways twitchiness in allergic asthma. ur paper shows how these triggers release chemicals that activate Casr in airway tissue
The military in particular may want to use spinel as transparent armor for vehicles and face shields.
what we call the quads. There are four channels, each comprised of X-ray optics that are pitched to one another
When deploying autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVS), much of an engineer time is spent writing scripts, or low-level commands,
was able to adapt its mission plan to avoid getting in the way of other vehicles,
If another vehicle was taking longer than expected to explore a particular area, the glider, using the MIT system,
in order to avoid potential collisions. e wanted to show that these vehicles could plan their own missions,
freeing the vehicles to explore more remote recesses of the sea. f you look at the ocean right now,
For example, antibodies can serve as transport vehicles for radionuclides, with which the affected regions can be visualized
#Nanoparticles used to breach mucus barrier in lungs Proof-of-concept study conducted in mice a key step toward better treatments for lung diseases Nanotechnology could one day provide an inhaled vehicle to deliver targeted therapeutic genes
and genetic materials and serve as a vehicle for communication between cells. In the nervous system, exosomes guide the direction of nerve growth,
have been refining cell-surface sensors known as chimeric antigen receptors, or CARS. Once inserted into T cells,
CARS prompt these cells to home in on particular proteins found primarily in tumors, where they launch a series of cancer-killing immune responses.
Dangers of CAR T cell Therapy CAR-equipped T cells have proven to be remarkably successful in the treatment of various forms of chemotherapy-resistant leukemia
But CAR T cell therapy can cause side effects so serious that they may require monitoring in an Intensive care unit several patients have died after receiving CAR T cells
while theye in the body. ome scientists have grappled with these problems by developing uicide switchesthat kill off CAR T cells
creating a new type of CAR T cell that is ffby default. Like CONVENTIONAL CAR T cells, these newly developed T cells will navigate toward
and interact with cancer cells, but will not launch any immune assault unless a specially designed drug has been administered.
This controller drug forms a chemical bridge between components inside the CAR T cells flipping the cells into an active, nstatus.
and selectively eliminated by the Lim group new CAR T cells, but only after the controller drug had been administered.
and colleagues does more than merely switch CAR T cells between nand ffstates. It can also act like a rheostat:
These combined control capabilities could be employed to manage the various side effects of CAR T therapy.
For CAR T cell treatments, T cells are removed from a patient blood, genetically engineered to carry CARS that target the patient tumor,
then reinserted into the bloodstream to exert their effects. Once inside the body, in addition to attacking tumors directly, CAR T cells, like all T cells, release signaling molecules called cytokines, some
of which recruit additional T cells to fight the tumor. Sometimes normal cells express small amounts of a cancer-associated protein targeted by a CAR T cell.
Because CAR T cells placed in the bloodstream pass immediately through the heart and lungs, these tissues can be damaged before the CAR T cells reach their intended target elsewhere in the body.
The control offered by the Lim laboratory new cells would allow physicians to leave CAR T cells inactivated until the heart
and lungs are less vulnerable to these irst passside effects. Even when CAR T cells attack only their correct target cancer cells,
side effects can still occur. In tumor lysis syndrome, the body is overwhelmed by toxic substances released when many tumor cells die in rapid succession.
Another side effect, known as a ytokine storm is a life-threatening vicious cycle in which released cytokines summon numerous T cells to the tumor,
but he believes that the research provides the foundation for practical remote control of CAR T cells on the near horizon.
In addition to drug control of CAR T nswitches, members of his laboratory are exploring other techniques to accomplish this goal,
such as controlling CAR T cell activation with light. While successful against blood cancers such as leukemia, CAR T cells have shown so far less efficacy against solid tumors that effect the colon, breast, prostrate, brain and other tissues.
The remote control strategy developed by Lim group may permit researchers to develop more powerful versions of CAR T cells that could attack these solid tumors,
while still keeping side effects in check. Members of the Lim laboratory are also working to reduce side effects by introducing multiple CARS into T cells
so that the cells will respond to multiple characteristics that are distinctive to an individual patient tumor,
and the Howard hughes medical institute. hat we can engineer CAR T cells to have slightly different, quite powerful effects even if for a subset of patients or for certain types of cancer is really remarkable,
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