#Global trends in robotics from patent analysis 120000 robotics patents have been published in the last 10 years tripling in rate from 2004 to 2013 according to the UK Intellectual Property Office Informatics Team.
Autonomous cars and drones are other examples of robots. The project is launched at theâ AUTOMATICA 2014â conference in Munich.
the nerves that trigger muscular movement in the eyes and the way that the brain processes vision.
#Packbot: Serving the Military and World cup Football Packbots will be deployed in Brazil during the 2014â World cup Soccerâ season to bring a high-tech approach to security.
The nationâ#government has secured a $7. 2 million deal with Packbotâ#creators for 30 of the military bots.
The sleek Packbot robot system designed by irobot a Bedford Massachusetts-based company made its debut in 2002 in Afghanistan where it helped soldiers clear bunkers caves collapsed building and to cross minefields.
By 2007 more than 800 of these military robots were in use throughout Afghanistan Iraq and several other countries.
The Packbot was also the first remote controlled robot to enter the Fukushima nuclear facility after the East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Packbot is a unique robotic propulsion system that can reach a road speed of up to 9 miles/hour.
Packbot has the capability to climb up to 60 percent grades and survive submersion in water up to two meters depth.
DHL and microdrones are testing drones that could be used to deliver urgently needed goods to hard-to-reach places eg medicines to remote sites.
#Amazon announces plans for drone delivery service, says safety will be key priority Amazon announced yesterday that it is developing a drone delivery service called Prime Air that will aim to get packages into customer hands within 30 minutes.
They are planning to launch as soon as FAA regulations are lifted as early as 2015. Amazon states that safety will be their top priority.
Australian startup Zookal is making news today with their claims to be the worldâ#first drone delivery company.
But while you can quibble over who is really the first commercial drone delivery company
They use drones for delivery and marketing. They are not a drone or robot company.
And thatâ#good! Zookal is a textbook rental startup that also provides a digital note platform and internships for international students.
Zookal are using drones developed by the University of Sydney engineering students and technically Flirtey is the actual drone startup.
Or possibly Vimbra who are managing the logistics partnerships ie between Zookal and Flirtey. However they all have cofounder Ahmed Haider in common.
Textbooks are a great test bed for drone logistics as they are robust reasonably expensive and in demand unlike tacos
and other e-commerce will be much more viable. â#Drones are the first robots to become an off the shelf technology that is wide open for diverse uses with drone delivery
Drones are the gateway for consumer robotics where the robot is a tool that anyone can use.
Flirtey are working in partnership with The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering a nonprofit research institute to develop a set of guidelines for the use of commercial drones. â##We hope to use this guide as a way to work through safety privacy and community concerns locally
This is especially true for a ship#s ballast tanks which are filled with seawater to compensate for weight changes as cargo is loaded and unloaded.
and stiffeners separated by bulkheads ballast tanks form much of a ship#s supporting structure. The surface of ballast tanks is subject to saltwater exposure
and algae accumulation and as a result must be inspected for damage every five years. A standard visual inspection which can only be conducted with the ship in dry-dock after about a two-day venting period serves as a kind of triage for determining
As part of a round-the-year continuous inspection the ship owner decides to use a four-day cruise to inspect part of the ballast tank.
and can model robots including roombas tanks and cars. It has two inputs: forward speed and turning rate.
and security context may be useful to assess what UK citizens are comfortable with ranging from troop support in areas such as minesweeping to remote surveillance to fully armed drones.
#Two small drones approved by FAA for civilian use in the US Two small drones Insitu Scan Eagle X200
Both drones have fixed wings weigh less than 55 pounds each and have wingspans of less than 10 feet
Part  of a session called hose Flying Things (which also features the work of drone ecologist Lian Pin Koh airborne logistics activist Andreas Raptopoulos
Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.
and the drone is indeed a toy quad rotor meant for playing games. We thought we could develop a game for the Parrot that would serve as a means for crowdsourcing the data we needed.
Drone is uniquely suitable for this purpose because: It is widely available to the public,
and (on the Parrot AR drone 2. 0) a pressuremeter and magnetometer. Further, it already uses these sensors to achieve accurate onboard state estimation
The code for communicating with Parrot is open source. Methodology The question we faced experimentally was how to couple the real-world object to the virtual space in which the drone would be flying.
Drone is delivered with a marker that is recognized in the images by the onboard firmware. The recognition gives an image position (x, y) and a distance to the marker.
Note, however, that this information is not enough to disambiguate both the position and orientation of the drone with respect to the marker.
because the drone is located on the right of the marker. In the luecase, the marker is in the left part of the image,
because the drone has turned to the right. Note that the distances to the marker are the same.
we perform state estimation on the basis of the drone estimates of its height, speeds, angles,
The heading is estimated quite well on board the drone, where the Parrot AR. Drone 2 also uses a magnetometer.
Figure 2 shows what computational processes are happening on which device during the game. The marker detection and the estimation of the drone attitude, height,
and speeds are performed by the firmware on board the drone. The app is running the drone control interface,
sending and receiving data from the drone, performing state estimation (X y z) with respect to the marker and rendering the 3d world.
Of course, for the experiment we also need to process the drone onboard images. Because of the iphone computational constraints, we decided to save 5 subsequent images
while the player is trying to dock and to process the images after the flight.
This processing now happens when the player visits the highscore table and agrees to join the experiment.
For example, if an ipad or ipod is connected to the drone Wifi, it cannot send its data.
#Quadrocopter Drones from China The market of remote controlled quadrocopter drones is growing fast. The world's first crash avoiding drone comes from Guangzhou Walkera Technology Co. Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of R c model toys such as helicopters
& aeroplanes that are certified to CE UL and FCC standards. The Walkera Infra X Smart Drone with Crash Avoidance System (CAS) contains a total of 10 sensors 2 Ultrasonic Altitude Sensors on the belly of the drone 8 Infrared Sensors
surrounding the drone body they keep the distance of the Drone from big objects like a Wall or a pile of Big Boxes.
The 2. 4ghz New Generation Radio System is the standard of new generation radio system.
Mind-controlled quadrotor dronemind controlled drones are a hot area for researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzou China who have adapted a Parrot AR Drone 2. 0 to be operated by an Emotiv EPOC
By thinking left strongly the mind-pilot can make the drone take off; thinking left right and push makes it turn clockwise move forward
More interestingly clenching teeth makes the drone descend while blinking commands it to take a photo o
and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm In August 2014 Google x announced that they had been secretly developing a drone delivery program to rival Amazon Prime Air.
#A new weapon in the fight against cancer Cancer happens when cells in the body start growing uncontrollably.
#Invisible Drones Could Become Reality with New Meta Material Electrical engineers at the University of California in San diego have created a new design for a cloaking device,
Russia would use its warplanes to hit terrorist targets when requested by the Syrian government.
He stressed that unlike the US-led coalition of countries that bombs militant troops in Syria
#NASA's drone is part chopper, part airplane Answer: NASA'S latest drone prototype, GL-10.
Better known by it's pop culture-inspired moniker, Greased Lightning, it is an innovative new concept for an unmanned vehicle (UAV) from NASA's Langley Research center in Hampton, Virginia.
The battery-powered drone has a 10-foot (3-meter) wingspan, 10 electric motors (eight on the wings,
as well as demonstrating the drone at various NASA events throughout the year. More from Tomorrow Transforme e
The idea is to create limbs made up of cells from the amputee's own body to produce an armor one day leg--tailored to them
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.
Now it looks like they'll take that battle to the skies as Walmart joins the online retailer in a quest to use a legion of drones for product deliveries and pickups.
which saw a copy of a Walmart's Federal aviation administration application for drone use. 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.
Earlier this month, the FAA unveiled a new set of rules for private drone use that include registering many of the drones with the FAA before consumers start flying them.
For commercial drones, which could be used in everything from filming movies to delivering groceries, the FAA has been considering some line-of-sight provisions that could make it virtually impossible for Amazon
and now Walmart to use drones in home deliveries. According to the report Walmart plans to use drones from DJI to monitor inventories outside their warehouses,
deliver packages to customers, many of whom live within five miles of their local Walmart,
and to deliver groceries to pick up locations for customers. DJI is one of the most popular drone makers on the market,
with a line of Phantom drones, including the Phantom 3 Standard, which Mashable recently test drove (or flew)."
"Drones have a lot of potential to further connect our vast network of stores, distribution centers, fulfillment centers and transportation fleet,
"Walmart spokesperson Dan Toporek told Reuters. Of course, no one not Amazon and not Walmart is delivering anything by drone until the FAA finalizes its commercial plans,
something that won't happen until next year, at the earliest. That's way late for your last-minute Christmas shopping plans,
which could reasonably be assisted by drone deliveries. Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments o
or DARPA, the branch of the U s. Department of defense that dreams up new military technologies. But robotic landing gear developed for DARPA at the Georgia Institute of technology (Georgia Tech) could better equip these aircraft to land just about anywhere.
This approach could generate new weapons against bacteria for which there are no effective antibiotics, says Timothy Lu,
allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on
is already bound by strict ethical regulations that bar it from investing in"particularly inhumane"weapons makers,
Their insights could lead to ways to control this shield and improve its efficiency, which could help curb the risk of unwanted infections in agricultural or garden plants,
so a computerized ATLAS hardware"trigger system"grabs the data, makes a fast evaluation, decides if it might hold something of interest to physicists,
"This trigger hardware system makes measurements but they are very crude, fast and primitive.""To further pare down the data,
helped develop software to monitor the performance of the trigger systems'thousands of computer processors."
construction and delivery of the ATLAS"readout"system an electronic system within the ATLAS trigger system that sends collision data from ATLAS to its data processing farm.
"The F/A-18 Hornet became the U s. Navy and Marine corps'first strike fighter in 1978;
"The group has, over the past 20 years, used various robots to test over 150 different material systems, with potential applications for ballistic missiles to rocketry to automobile manufacturing."
The lab has tested over 150 different material systems, with potential applications for ballistic missiles to rocketry to automobile manufacturing.
adamantly and publicly oppose autonomous weapons. Last May, a meeting was organised at the UN to assess the ethical and sociological questions that arise from their development and deployment,
In July, the Future of Life Institute released an open document calling for a ban on autonomous weapons.
There are, as yet, no agreements or even proposals to ban autonomous weapons, but discussions in the UN are ongoing.
but the institute has made undoubtedly a brave decision in rejecting the billions of dollars of contracts thrown at the military weapons industries.
The moral, ethical and legal arguments against weapons that can make decisions about who to kill will rubble on.
a chemical change triggers the generation of oxygen-carrying molecules known as reactive oxygen species (ROS). If a sunscreen agents penetrate the skin,
but unlike radar theye not confused by the kinds of angled surfaces that make the stealth fighter so stealthy.
Automated crowd counting could also prove increasingly potent with the growing use of aerial drone surveillance,
With these technology shifts, exciting technologies like drones, AI, satellite mapping, robotics, and the Internet of things, have realized quickly that the agriculture value chain provides fertile first market opportunities for many technologies that are advanced not enough or have not yet found solutions in the consumer space.
Already this year, wee seen a $50m investment into drone maker 3d Robotics and a $95m investment into microsatellite company Planet Labs, both of which count agriculture as key early market opportunities.
#Airware Launches Its Commercial Drone Operating system Drones could save businesses big money by doing dull, dirty,
The problem is that drones can be difficult to program and pilot. Airware is out to change that with today launch of its Aerial Information Platform.
Ground Control Station for dispatching drones, and its cloud platform for customizing missions and collecting data.
the four year-old Airware is perhaps Silicon valley premier drone startup. Airware integrated hardware software, and cloud system lets enterprises customize drones to check on gas pipelines,
survey farm land, inspect cell towers, patrol property, or do search & rescue, Now wel see just how many businesses will pay a monthly subscription for Airware to power their drones for industrial inspections, agriculture management, anti-poaching, and more.
Consumer drone makers are growing fast as quadcopters become the hot new toy for kids and adults alike.
China DJI is said to be raising money at a $10 billion valuation. But long-term, theyl likely be commoditized as hardware makers around the globe clone
It the way drones improve efficiency for heavy industry that could be the enduring moneymaker.
Whatever companies makes the software that runs these drones would make serious profits for years to come.
and a handful of reporters from San francisco to an isolated farm in Petaluma, where the startup showed off its platform with a variety of drones built for different use cases.
The company hoped to demonstrate how its system can be customized to let any drone do any job.
the Ground Control Station that lets a single user operate a fleet of drones from a Windows laptop or tablet,
Rather than having to pre-program a drone, manually pilot it, and then painstakingly dump the data back to your servers,
The goal is to reduce the drone piloting expertise needed to get complicated missions flown.
enhance it with cloud widgets to customize their drone to the day use case, and the data flows back automatically.
Operators can just trace a flight path on a map instead of driving the drone in real-time.
the startup had several of its biggest customers speak about their use of the platform in their own drones.
French drone company Delta Drone showed of its drone capabilities for surveying farmland and dig sites using flight plans generated Airware Ground Control Station.
Users simply draw out a geofence for the drone to stay within and give it parameters like required altitude.
It wasn the flashiest demo wee ever seen with a drone after taking off it went to a set height
But commercial drone use isn supposed to be sexy. It supposed to get the job done safe, fast, and cheap.
After several similar demos, Drone America CEO Mike Richards spoke about using his company larger drones with Airware software for missions outside of traditional industrial uses.
replacing lifeguards at beaches with drones carrying floatation devices that can identify people in distress.
One of the new things shown off during these demos was support for fixed-wing drones,
launching via a catapult, flying several quick passes around the the whole area, and landing with a couple of bounces on the thick grass.
Instead of requiring customers to build their own app with the exact drone interface needed, building on Windows will allow them to download the same app to each tablet
Essentially, third-parties will be able to develop plug-ins to let drones handle even more niche missions. Little Copters, Big Business This is
since theye mostly industrial or nterpriseclients who already have their own drones, there no need to offer a free tier just yet
Airware costs $2500 per drone per year. But the company doesn have to race to revenue just yet.
Drones are more than just war machines. Downey grew up the son of pilots, then built his own drones at MIT.
Now his company Airware is going to teach them to do our bidding, and even save some lives g
Indicated embedded a few trigger points in the environment that show additional content such as educational videos,
Real-time environment maps provided by depth sensors are being used to test self-driving taxis and autonomous delivery drones.
or bullets rapidly hitting the material. The material chemistry activates on impact to help plug a hole
This is because the polymer reacts to heating. s the bullet goes in it actually raises the temperature around the region,
#Thai university develops bulletproof vest made of silk BANGKOK: A team of university researchers in Thailand has developed the world's first bulletproof vest made from natural silk,
a media report said on Tuesday. The vest can withstand. 38 and. 22 calibre bullets fired from a distance of three metres, Panomkorn Khwakhong,
a researcher at Khon Kaen University's chemical engineering department, said. The armour, made from silkworm cocoons mixed with a special resin
and then hydraulically compressed, is durable and lightweight, the Bangkok Post quoted Panomkorn, a chemical engineering lecturer as saying.
and cost only one-third the price of conventional bullet proof vests, he said. He said silkworm cocoons were used
and make a version that can withstand automatic weapons fire, such as the M16 assault rifles s
#Scientists identify protein that will help treatment of arthritis Scientists have identified a protein that regulates the severity of tissue damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis.
and instead send messages through a computer algorithm to elec rodes placed around the patient's knees to trigger controlled eg muscle movements.
and instead send messages through a computer algorithm to electrodes placed around the patient's knees to trigger controlled leg muscle movements.
and it could be malaria Scientists might have made accidentally a huge step forward in the search for a cure for cancer discovering unexpectedly that a malaria protein could be an effective weapon against the disease.
#The revolutionary Lily Flying Camera Drone is brought to life thanks to 3d printing May 13, 2015 By Simonit no surprise that some of the most exciting tech to come out in years has been brought to consumers thanks in no small part to 3d printing.
large-scale solar array could power spacecraft, robots, drones, and more. And, though such projects as mining asteroids with solar-powered drones might seem like science fiction,
the news that Made In Space plans to send their AMF to the ISS later this year implies that science fact could be realized in the very near future d
triggers premature cellular aging and slows down cell proliferation, resulting in accelerated aging. It was thought previously that progerin did so through causing the nucleus to be deformed,
Winfried Denk, Ph d. 9, Karel Svoboda 8, David Tank, M. S. 0, Ph d. 3 and Arthur Konnerth.
Modulating the ph levels of the solutions in those environments triggers the aptamers to atchor eleasethe target biomolecule.
large-scale solar array could power spacecraft, robots, drones, and more. And, though such projects as mining asteroids with solar-powered drones might seem like science fiction,
the news that Made In Space plans to send their AMF to the ISS later this year implies that science fact could be realized in the very near future e
A'Smoking Gun'for Neurotransmitter Release In this latest research the scientists found that when the SNARES and synaptotagmin-1 join up,
"The neuron is not building the'gun'as it sits there on the membrane-it's already there,
and simultaneously interact with the same vesicle to efficiently trigger neurotransmitter release, an exciting area for further studies."
discovered synaptotagmin-1 and showed that it plays an important role as a calcium sensor and calcium-dependent trigger for neurotransmitter release."
"There's a lot of different things that can trigger blood coagulation, but when you're on heparin, most of them don't work,
when you hit your elbow on something and trigger your unny bone. The median nerve in the upper arm and shoulder is connected to the other fingers on the hand
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We can naturally interact with surrounding smart objects such as drones and smart appliances and play games, using purely the light around us.
A similar concept powers the new missiles used by the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter plane, for instance. Ramjets can move a plane very fast.
we have lower fuel consumption and smaller tanks, which makes the vehicle again smaller, Steelant says.
It the nerve that is stimulated when a hit to the elbow triggers the unny bone.
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