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Not all parts of the body age alike according to Steve Horvath a geneticist at UCLA's medical school.

Timothy James a glaciologist at the University of Swansea agrees. This is very exciting news he said.

and sound energy harvestingâ#according to Duke graduate student Alexander Katko one of the inventors. â##Until now a lot of work with metamaterials has been theoretical.

but it is drifting out there all aloneâ#stated team leader Michael Liu who is with the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. â

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Female fruit flies however have a special kind of defense to lower the potential cost of getting down and dirty with another fly according to a new study from the University of Bath in the UK.

if the dropouts left because they weren t seeing any good effects. Out of the 220 volunteers researchers recruited for the study one-third eventually dropped out the BBC reports.

and one-thousandth as bright as the sun. But in this week's PNAS Online Early Edition a team of researchers from#University of California at#Berkeley released a study that looks at how common Earth-size planets

Scientists at the University of Groningen have developed a possible solution that involves automatic deactivation of antibiotics.

but a team at Baylor University in Texas recently discovered that the gunk contains even more information.

if the shutdown continues the disruption to the Antarctic summer research season could be catastrophic. â##We have 22 years of data showing the summer snapshot in this area that s changing really rapidlyâ#says Oscar Schofield an oceanographer at Rutgers University. â

In addition to the longterm research that takes place at Palmer there are plenty of graduate students whose careers hinge on a single research season

Cat Luria a Phd student at Brown University is one of them. She s studying how microbes at the base of the oceanic food chain

Her team is being sent home smack in the middle of that transition. â##Graduate students and postdocs need to produce results within a short period of time.

Many including myself spent years working up to this field seasonâ#she says. â##I imagine this will be a major set back for many graduate students impeding their ability to graduate on time

or at all and get a job after graduation. â#Doing scientific research in Antarctica is incredibly important and expensive According to a March 2012 article in the NSF-funded Antarctic Sun

and interior pipes that often attract bugs according to the University of Freiburg the German university where the bug-repelling material's makers did their research.

The researchers are now working on making a prototype bug-shedding material according to the University of Freiburg.

University of Freiburg u

#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?

A team of scientists from John Hopkins University and the National institutes of health have cured newborn mice of Down syndrome by injecting them with a drug that stimulates

The researchers led by Roger Reeves of the John Hopkins University School of medicine treated newborn mice that had been engineered genetically to have Down syndrome-like characteristics with a small molecule called SAG.

Mice treated with SAG performed just as well as normal mice on a memory and learning test.

Mya Breitbart a microbial ecologist at the University of South Florida has figured out how to quickly decipher what they are and

Her contributions have been pivotal in unmasking the enormous diversity of viruses on the planet says Curtis Suttle a marine virologist at the University of British columbia.

As a computer scientist at the Polytechnic institute of New york University Cappos has developed a completely different way to cloud compute.

An associate professor of food safety and plant biosecurity at Virgina Tech Schmale sends drones armed with petri dishes into the atmosphere to capture airborne crop pathogens.

--The Editorsmassachusetts Institute of technology and Broad Institutemodifying a cell's genome on the flywhen Feng Zhang was in graduate school he discovered that the tools for splicing new genes into living cells were costly time-consuming and proprietary.

Arjun Raj and his collaborators at the University of Pennsylvania invented a technique to track that gene expression and its effects.

In response a company called Shark Attack Mitigation Systems (SAMS) and University of Western australia scientists have been working to protect swimmers surfers

me'â##and that has been manifest in a striped pattern UWA professor Shaun Collin told the Guardian.

"says Zaman, now a biomedical engineer at Boston University. The bogus-drug trade isn't just a problem for the world's poorest patients:

Users (who need only a few days'training) dissolve samples inside a small beaker in the machine.

A group of chemists from St mary's College in Indiana and Notre dame has gotten into the detective game, too.

Mitalipov is a biologist who studies cells and development at the Oregon Health and Science University.

when Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University said he'd made human clones. It turned out Hwang was lying.

because apparently one's google Ph d means a lot more than a University Ph. dreally we could probably find a way to artificially pollinate plants.

and someone with normal vision is not as dramatic as the difference between someone who is colorblind and someone with normal vision according to Kimberly Jameson a cognitive scientist at the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California in Irvine.

She and her colleague Alissa Winkler at the University of Nevada in Reno have been studying Antico for about a year to better understand tetrachromacy.

and she has a number of students who are colorblind. One of the things that has been made apparent by looking at their artwork is that they have a good appreciation for color unlike any other individual who

but Jameson is intrigued by the prospect of improving people s perception of color through the training that neuroplasticity allows.

In addition to spending her time helping researchers better understand tetrachromacy Antico hopes to open an art school for the colorblind

Roxana Geambasu Exposes How Companies Use Your Data As a computer scientist Roxana#Geambasu of Columbia University says she picks new projects based on

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

The satellites orbit the earth and sends out thousands of radar pulses a second Sandwell a#geophysics professor#at Scripps.#

which has been targeted largely at universities and cities so far. On September 23 several dozen heads of state including President Barack Obama came to the United nations for a one-day climate summit.

Yet the researchers got the rodents walking again with the help of EES and some training sessions (during

CRISPR has a certain protein in it called Cas9 that acts like a scissor Lu associate professor of biological engineering electrical engineering

A new chimera-like creation from the Modular Robotics Lab at the University of Pennsylvania combines two snakebots and one quadcopter into a sort of drone superorganism bringing rescue robots together

#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

A team of university engineers has created a vehicle headlight that adjusts itself so that drivers can keep their high beams on even

or snowflakes seem to disappear from its beam to clear the vision of the driver a trick that this team of engineers from Carnegie mellon University has been working on for a few years now.

I was in marching band in high school. The headlight's onboard computer reacts to what it senses

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

That's an improvement from last year when the university had only a raindrop-disappearing light that worked with a 13-millisecond delay.

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

Available to NFL and college teams and soon youth and high school#players the new Speedflex is designed to diminish the impact forces of a hard hit.

It will also alert coaches on the sideline if a blow was powerful enough to potentially cause a head injury.

and engineers from universities and startups in Europe and the U s. understandably sent only two messages in this manner:

Sciences and Shinshu University. Scientists have known long spider-silk proteins are exceptionally strong. Dragline silk the stuff spiders use to make the spokes of their webs

Over the past few years engineers working for several universities and companies have tried to make emotion-reading algorithms.

We are anticipating that some parts might fail says researcher Ken Caluwaerts a roboticist at Ghent University in Belgium.

They are also developing a low-cost easy-to-use tensegrity robotics kits to make it easy for people to put together new tensegrity robots for students

#Boy Given A 3-D Printed Spine Implant Doctors at Peking University Third Hospital have implanted successfully the first ever 3-D-printed section of vertebra into the young patient.

the World health organization and universities will review grant applications, the Guardian reports r

#Turning Old Lead Batteries Into New Solar energy Used car batteries can leech chemicals and create lead pollution

Quoting MIT energy professor Angela Belcher a study co-author an MIT press release notes that with time ticking down on lead-acid batteries in favor of lithium ion cells we need to be thinking ahead on handling a looming toxic waste problem:

"I salute Germany for cancelling important defence training facility contract with Russia. An example also for others, one might add."

"said study lead author Esam Azhar, a virologist at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. The finding implies that virus could possibly be spread in enclosed spaces such as hospitals

and with a lower chance of being rejected, the researchers (from the University of California, Irvine) said.

and directional stability as doctoral student Christian Peters from the group led by Christofer Hierold Professor of Micro

#This makes the actuators more interesting for certain applications#says Salvador Panã research associate in the group led by Bradley Nelson Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems.

#The work is the result of many years of joint research between the two professors in the Department of Mechanical

and was used not in the learning process. We hypothesized that a high-level semantic representation of painting would be more useful for the task of influence detection.

and discriminative vs. generative learning methodologies (See Figure 3). More recently we also studied the use of metric learning to combine various features for the task of style classification 4. The conclusion of this study confirms our hypothesis

A Metric Learning Approach#The Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity ICCC 2014 p

#New educational robot helps kids learn coding through music Meet Wigl! Wigl is an interactive educational robot with a musical ear.

and promotes cross-disciplinary learning. I see a worldwide shortage of quality engineers. People seem to believe that strong Math skills are the most important prerequisite for being an engineer.

or all tech fields#said Michael Wagner a senior commercialization specialist with the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie mellon University.#

Magic Leapas artificial intelligence software and emerging learning chips fuse into more speedy and capable pursuits the line between things robotic (which has a specific definition)

Some of that focus has been on acquiring learning system companies (and talent. Additional focus mayâ includeâ virtual reality 3d imaging and augmented reality systems.

Scrolling down a bit one sees a classroom scene with colorful sea horses floating inbetween the kids.

The Cygnus cargo vehicle destroyed on this accident was carrying a lot of small satellites owned by schools universities and startups.

 Inria Research director Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (who developed Poppy as a tool for studying the science of learning

and 3d printable aspects of the project will enable researchers to quickly print custom body parts and experiment with different robot morphologies in order to study their impact on behaviour and learning.

and musical instruments making it an affordable humanoid platform for research experimentation and education. To test the platform Oudeyer

but important questions have to be well thought to be realistic. he Poppy communitypoppy developers hope that the robot will also be used in schools for learning about robotics and as an experimental platform in the arts;

However only very little has been done to explore the benefits of 3d printing and its interaction with computer science in classrooms.

and teachers an adequate tool to cultivate the creativity of students studying in fields such as mechanics computer sciences electronics and 3d printing.

and university research resources. The two acquisitions are Dark blue Labsâ (whichâ is creating systems to understand natural languageâ that would allow computers to comprehend the meaning of sentences

Both are based UK deep learning startups and both wereâ spun off from Oxford university. According to the Financial times the two acquisitions are estimated to have cost Google Deepmind $50 million.

A substantial contribution to Oxford university is forthcoming to expand Google AI and deep learning capabilities.#

#Google Deepmind has hired all seven founders of these startups with the three professors holding joint appointments at Oxford university where they will continue to spend part of their time#Hassabis notes in his blog post.#

I think the one thing that we#re hoping to achieve with open BCI is to really lower the barrier of entry both in terms of educational materials

whereas previously one medical grade system was used in a classroom or research laboratory now the same amount of money can be used to acquire  enough Openbci systems to provide every student with their own device.#

#This is reflected in our consumer base. A huge proportion of our customers are students graduate-level researchers

and professors who want to use Openbci as a learning tool explains Russomanno. Another of Openbci#s exciting potentials is the fact that it is fully open source. Russomanno

and Murphy are using a lot of their resources to create an infrastructure in which people are not just able to use the technology

This level of interaction creates a hands on learning environment that enables kids to gain experience responding to real world scenarios.

Earlier this year the company invested £5m in a lab at Imperial College London designed to help robots#understand

Imperial#s Professor Davison has spoken also about the importance of  location tracking: e will research

This has implications on both cost and availability of data for machine perception and learning.

Robohub is an online platform that brings together leading communicators in robotics research start-ups business and education from around the world o

Robohub is an online platform that brings together leading communicators in robotics research start-ups business and education from around the world.

The Korean government will enhance global cooperation through its Seven Robot Fusion Business Strategies roadmap initially involving the manufacturing automotive medical rehabilitation culture defense education

It is for this part of the technology that the team have spent months training with volunteers trying out different arrangements of actuators on the arms trying epsilateral

One of the major challenges of the project was the training process for the eight volunteers (males

of 2014says Amy Loutfi the project coordinator based at Arebro University Sweden. o far we have had six homes in Europe two homes each in Spain Sweden

& support public interest media-making through scholarships media fellowships and auctions. nd by public good they mean for example sneaking into purchasing participant registration for The People Bot at the highly popular Computer-Human-Interaction Conference

& Google glass exhibit at CHI (proceeds go to the CHI student travel grants). Rumor has it The People Bot is currently wandering around the Theorizing the Web conference in New york city.

While these interests may seem divergent the synthesis of them led him to Brown University#s Braingate Group where he is the Senior Research and development Engineer.

The team comprised of Daniela Rus Professor of Electrical engineering and Computer science and Director of CSAIL Cagdas Onal Assistant professor of Mechanical engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic institute and Andrew Marchese a doctoral candidate in engineering at MIT created the robot to be autonomous.

This means it has all the necessary sensing actuation and computation on board. Its flexible body is made of silicone rubber.

Most astronauts complete medical training which equips them with the skills to perform procedures such as first aid and basic surgery.

when their teams began putting one of its humanoid robots through medical school. Should a medical incident arise in space that human crew members are unable to deal with themselves the robo-doc will be there to save the day.

After its training is complete the $2. 5 million Robonaut 2 designed to assist astronauts with their duties both inside

Medical training is a complex and lengthy process even for a robot. Unfortunately there is no super-software that can be uploaded to the robot to make it become an instant medical expert.

But one of R2s instructors Dr. Zsolt Garami M d. says that the robot is a quick learner;

and his team of researchers from the Department of Systems and Control engineering and the Centre for Biomedical Cybernetics at the University of Malta who have developed a music player that can be controlled by the human brain.

Microsoft researchers will also work closely with the scientists at the two universities. Microsoft has been investing in Swiss research for years

Microsoft will provide one million Swiss francs per year in funding for IT-related research projects at the two universities over a period of five years.

Otmar Hilliges a 34-year-old assistant professor is one of the successful project applicants. The young computer scientist from ETH Zurich studies the interaction between people and computers.

At the Ecocloud center at EPFL Dr. Edouard Bugnion and Professor Babak Falsafi are carrying out research into energy-efficient memory architectures for data centres that can handle huge amounts of data.

We are currently developing learning algorithms that allow the Cubli to automatically learn and adjust the necessary parameters

Coordinated by the University of Delft the project will involve 16 partners from academia and industry including Siemens Fraunhofer Universal Robots Philips and the Technische Universitã¤t Mà nchen (TUM).

#Rehabilitation support robot-cloudmakes muscle movement visible Associate professor Toshiaki Tsuji Laboratory at Saitama University has developed R-cloud a rehabilitation support robot that enables users to view how their own muscles

and training. his rehabilitation support robot is used for strengthening the arms. Its moving parts use pneumatic muscles

and evaluates the effect of training. -cloud calculates subtle muscle movements and quantifies this into data

Based on data collected from these sensors calculations are made on the force of muscle contraction within the arm as well as on the amount of calories consumed by each muscle during training.

So the robot is equipped with technology that quantifies the degree of effectiveness of training. In addition we use augmented reality technology to make these results visible. y databasing measurement data collected during training the Tsuji Lab is constructing a rehabilitation cloud system

which will promote efficient rehabilitation. e would like to see these robots used for rehabilitation training in hospitals nursing homes and private homes after an injury or for use as a preventive measure prior to injury. i

With a 10 year runway this is still a bit of a playground. Like Willow only double l

and refining a figure-eight trajectory using iterative learning. Worth the watch!!Building Tensile Structures with Flying Machinesfederico Augugliaro:

Iterative Learning for Periodic Quadrocopter Maneuversmarkus Hehn: his video demonstrates an iterative learning algorithm that allows accurate trajectory tracking for quadrocopters executing periodic maneuvers.

The algorithm uses measurements from past executions in order to find corrections that lead to better tracking performance.

and the next learning step follows. For particularly dynamic maneuvers we begin the learning process at lower execution speeds.

This allows us to initially improve performance under safer conditions and the algorithm provides a means to then transfer the learned corrections from the lower execution speed to higher speeds.

and also to provide a rewarding environment for learning to code. The Play-i team are parents who want to address the shortfall of computer scientists in an increasingly digital world. â##What makes Play-iâ#robots so unique and special is that they really connect with younger kids on an emotional level

â#â##Play-i gets how a developmentally appropriate introduction to programming can pave the way towards a lifelong interest and aptitude in computer scienceâ#saidâ Vibha Sazawal Lecturer and Visiting Research Scientist at the University

 Mike Dooley the original product lead for Lego Mindstorm Robotics Steve Cooper Professor of CS & Ed at Stanford university Chairman of CSTA Andrea Thomaz Professor

of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech Kiki Prottsman Educator and Executive director of Thinkersmith Vibha Sazawal Scientist at the University of Maryland and Prashant Kanhere who led led development of the ipod at Apple.

#Zookal is a textbook and student services startup. They use drones for delivery and marketing.

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.

and offer little margin for a startup. â##Textbooks are an excellent way to test the market as they allow for varying weightsâ#he says. â##With the concentration of students in universities in Australia we will have proof of concept that shows

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

improve safety for inspectors A team of students from ETH Zurich and ZHDK have developed a prototype for a robotic ship inspection unit that is capable of conducting visual inspections of ship ballasts.

The robot was developed as part of a Bachelor-level project that aims to give students practical experience

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

a team of ten undergraduate students (six mechanical engineers and two electrical engineers from ETH Zurich and two industrial designers from ZHDK) completed the project from concept to functional prototype as part of a nine-month

It has been developed by RCAST at the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Microsoft Japan and is available from assist

In order to broaden the reach of prosthetic devicesâ I decided to create a low-cost prosthetic hand while inâ my final year at the University of Plymouth.

and are guided to form our university logo and beloved owl mascot. The mathour initial work with Tim Bretl at the University of Illinois investigated a parallel problem:

robust open-loop control of a robot with unknown parameters. We chose two classical robot platforms to demonstrate our approach the nonholonomic unicycle and the plate-ball manipulator.

and Universities David Willetts in his report Eight Great Technologies and the July 2013 announcement that the UK robotics industry would receive a £40 million funding boost.

care of children elderly and disabled (61%)education (30%)healthcare (30%)leisure (12%)and domestic use (11%.

and education activities there is relatively little dialogue or understanding of the views of the public around the controversial issues present in robotics.

Lighter than a feather these ultrathin film-like organic transistor integrated circuits are being developed by a research group led by Professor Takao Someya

and Associate professor Tsuyoshi Sekitani of the University of Tokyo who run an Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) program sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) in collaboration with Siegfried Bauer group at the Johannes Kepler

University (JKU) Linz Austria. This prototype device is a touch sensor featuring a 12×12 array of sensors on a 4. 8 cm x 4. 8 cm circuit.

In the beginningin the summer of 2008 Professor Raffaello Dndrea at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich envisioned an art installation consisting of single-rotor robotic units that would self-assemble on the ground

The class consisted of eight graduate-level students from mechanical electrical and software engineering as well as technical staff and instructors including myself.

The success of this project would not have been made possible without support from The swiss National Science Foundation as well as the countless number of hours spent by students

and a whole crew of Phd and Master students to develop the infrastructure and algorithms that make this demonstration possible

Curvace is a European project bringing together the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in EPFL (Switzerland) the Laboratory of Biorobotics in the University of Aix-Marseille (France) the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (Germany

) and the Laboratory of Cognitive sciences in the University of TÃ bingen (Germany) e

#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.

The work was done in collaboration with Mettin Sitti from Carnegie mellon University an expert in dry adhesive materials

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