In America venture and privately-funded Rethink Robotics whose founder and CTO is ex-MIT Professor
but none are offering them at low cost or with user friendly training or the plug and play and safety features.
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 behaviors to speed up this visual learning process. Similar to the Roboearth project the central idea is that a group of robots sharing visual information such as raw camera images
and the 13 undergraduate students on the team were responsible for everything from concept to engineering, manufacturing and budgeting.
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
Under experimental conditions walking was restored in paralysed rats after implanting followed by two weeks of training using a robotic postural interface also developed as part of NCCR Robotics.
The swiss National Center of Competence in Robotics (NCCR Robotics) is funded a federally programme bringing together robotics laboratories from EPFL ETH Zurich University of Zurich
and University of Lugano to work on wearable rescue and educational robots. A full transcript of the paper will be published in print on 09.01.2015
was the work of MIT professors Angela Belcher, an expert on engineering viruses to carry out energy-related tasks,
and Italian universities. Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering, explains that in photosynthesis, a photon hits a receptor called a chromophore,
which in turn produces an exciton a quantum particle of energy. This exciton jumps from one chromophore to another until it reaches a reaction center,
Lloyd and Belcher, a professor of biological engineering, were reporting on different projects they had worked on,
a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard university who was involved not in this work. The research, he says, ombines the work of a leader in theory (Lloyd) and a leader in experiment (Belcher) in a truly multidisciplinary and exciting combination that spans biology to physics to potentially, future technology.?
He is currently Bruce Mahan Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his S b. degree in Chemistry from MIT in 1966,
#When Actors Replace Instructors as On-Camera Talent Instructors have typically been the on-screen talent for the recorded lectures used in online courses.
But when Purdue University began expanding the online certification courses in its Engineering Professional Education program,
Mundane 20-to 40-minute lecture videos of a"talking head"no longer provided a learning experience that professionals taking online courses would tolerate.
The Engineering Professional Education program provides non-credit online courses designed for"lifelong learners, "led by instructors who come from the field."
"Our students love them because they're so close to the content and they're using
former director of professional development programs who now is the graduate programs director in Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical engineering.
Still, student feedback suggested a desire for higher-quality videos in the online certification courses.
The result has been much happier students. How It Works The development of a new online program in project management provided Maris
and the university ultimately selected a location near Dallas, TX several states away. The on-campus studio couldn't commit to the kinds of time blocks required for the project,
When the videos alternate between actors, the students get used to seeing a mix and won't be shocked"if somebody new shows up.
students can trust the content; and there's a certain level of flexibility in adjusting the content as the need arises they don't need to work so closely from a script.
students won't watch the videos. Likewise, students may not be able to"relate to"the instructor.
In one example, noted Maris, an instructor looked young, and students would comment on that in their feedback.
It took the videos along with interaction with the instructor in the discussion forum e-mails and online help sessions"for students to be convinced that he really is the expert."
"In using actors, the obvious challenge was that they might not be"believable "if they mispronounce the jargon of the subject.
Research has shown that adult learners"quit retaining information"after that much viewing time, said Maris. In order to achieve that length,
videos focus on specific concepts learners are going to need to understand. This approach has a second advantage:
Or a new topic video based on SME or student suggestions can be inserted wherever it's needed.
Conversely, when data shows that students aren't using specific videos at all, or if students give feedback that a given topic isn't pertinent to the work environment,
those videos are removed from the program. To give the videos a shelf-life of"maybe a couple of years,"noted Maris,
"But the studio was enthralled pretty with working with a Big 10 university and partnering with Purdue for this series of courses and the potential of other online certification courses in the future.
and put many learners through, which is what we can do with these courses, "she said,
"That practice is in response to feedback from the faculty, who were concerned that students would feel like the school was pulling a"bait and switch.""
""We didn't want our students to feel like we weren't giving them the real thing,
"she noted. Keep Testing the Results During the development of the beta course, the design team had its SME record a couple of videos on camera using the same teleprompter setup.
Students still preferred the actor.""We didn't say who was remarked who, "Maris.""But they could tell right away.
what she does in the course content. Go with the actors because we love to watch them.'
"We have learned from student feedback that they're more likely to watch the shorter lectures and well produced videos."
The Old Way Vickie Maris, former director of professional development programs who now is the graduate programs director in Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical engineering,
described the traditional way Purdue's Engineering Professional Education program produces lecture videos: After an initial brainstorming session
"Those lectures are posted to the course sections in Blackboard Learn for students to access. To try out new curriculum,
the university offers the course in its alpha form for free to about 10 learners, said Maris."
which it delivers to about 20-25 students who take the class for a 50 percent registration discount in return for their feedback.
and student feedback could be harsh:""Watching her eyes scanning the teleprompter is quite off-putting and sophomoric,
"responded one student. Also, in recent years, the students have increasingly found the 10-to 40-minute lectures too long to watch online.
And since the SME was essentially reading his or her notes, it was repetitive content.
Students were either reading their workbooks or watching the videos, but rarely was a student using both learning tools
#Researchers at Brown U Develop Terahertz Wireless Multiplexing A Brown University-led team of researchers has developed a system for multiplexing
and de-multiplexing terahertz waves, solving one of the technical challenges of terahertz wireless networking,
and demultiplexing,"said Daniel Mittleman, professor of engineering at Brown and senior author of a research paper on the subject, in a prepared statement."
"which has"two metal plates placed in parallel to form a waveguide,"according to information from the university."
The lead author of the paper was Nicholas Karl, a graduate student at Brown n
#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,
using an ultra-thin Teflon substrate, studded with cylinders of ceramic, that can endlight weaves around objects coated with it,
a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at the UC San diego Jacobs School of engineering and the senior author of the study. ull invisibility still seems beyond reach today,
Photo courtesy of Li-Yi Hsu/University of California, San diego) An extremely thin cloaking devise is designed using dielectric materials.
Photo courtesy of Li-Yi Hsu/University of California, San diego) By scattering the electromagnetic radiation in the visible, infrared or radar spectrum,
The University of California has achieved a cloak that won reduce any intensity when light is reflected from the coated
and Syria has stopped temporarily receiving new recruits at its training sites. e continue to recruit
#US ARMY Turns to Computer Software for Medic Training Technology already has pushed medical and emergency responder training well beyond the days of mock wounds and static mannequins.
New software designed for Army medical training allows personnel to see in real-time the effect of their treatments on the bodies of virtual patients and high-tech mannequins.
a new ARA software program funded in part by the Army intends to significantly advance that training via a downloadable hysiology enginethat allows medical personnel see how their actions affect every other aspect of their patient physiology.
what happening to the respiration rate, this is how the patient is responding to your actions. great deal of military medical training is conducted now using sophisticated gaming systems and virtual reality, with the trainee personnel n front of a laptop or with a mouse, keyboard or joystick,
but by the broader public because it is open source. ll the models we are creating can be downloaded for free by anyone to create immersive training,
so that anybody in the future who creates a medical training game for the military can take and use Biogears in that.?
"explains professor Henk Jonkers, of Delft University of Technology, in The netherlands.""If you have cracks,
said Sliman Bensmaia, an associate professor of neuroscience at the University of Chicago. But people will never be able to use these hands with dexterity until they can feel
said Dr. Paul S. Cederna, professor of plastic surgery and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan.
The research was done by astronomers at Keele University and the University of Central Lancashire and will be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The galaxy, with the very clunky name of SAGE0536AGN, was discovered with NASA's Spitzer space telescope. Scientists think it's about 9 billion years old.
an astrophysicist at Keele University and lead author of the new paper. How did this happen?
said Georgia Tech doctoral student Lujendra Ojha, who first discovered the streaks while still an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona in 2011.
The chemicals allow the water to remain liquid at lower temperatures but also help keep it from boiling off in the thin atmosphere of Mars,
The device, developed by a consortium of European universities including King's college, London, is made of two cylindrical chambers of silicon elastomers that extend and bend.
Ian Walker, a bioroboticist at Clemson University, has been working with NASA to develop a flexible snake
"We're looking forward to learning how the community perceives and interacts with the vehicles,
while undergraduates at the University of Calgary, have won several competitions for their device and recently achieved their crowdfunding goal on Boostr to advance their prototype.
"study co-author Lonnie Shea at Northwestern University in Illinois told AFP. In experiments, Shea and a team built biodegradable disks about half-a-centimeter (0. 2 inches) wide,
With training, patients can move and control their arms or legs again, literally by thinking about it.
but the training involved is arduous, inefficient and it doesn work for everyone. New research coming out of Europe may change all that, ushering in a new generation of BMI systems.
and the goal is achieved. he paradigm shift lies in the use of these signals to relieve the subject from the tedious task of learning,
Nanoengineers at the University of California, San diego have made a splash in trying to overcome this obstacle.
an undergraduate researcher and a co-author of the study. The motors are six-micrometer-long tubes with an outer polymer surface that holds a chemical enzyme carbonic anhydrase designed to speed up the reaction between carbon dioxide and water and form bicarbonate.
an undergraduate researcher and co-author of the study, said in a press release, adding that in the future, these micromotors could likely be used as part of a water treatment system,
Now comes word that researchers at Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have found yet another use for mushrooms in batteries.
The UC research team has developed a new kind of lithium-ion battery anode using portobello mushrooms,
professor of genetics at Harvard university and an author on the paper published this week in Science Express.
professor of bioethics at New york University. omeone will say let try to engineer embryos to see
postdoctoral student Luhan Yang and Church were able to eliminate 62 of these retroviruses in a pig kidney cell line.
Still, Caplan expects a gene-edited human to come from the private world rather than a university
says Bruce Drinkwater, researcher with the University of Bristol, in press materials accompanying the publication of the study.
A team from the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science are working toward that goal.
Masuno is an assistant professor at the Institute of Industrial Science. e are looking to commercialize the technique within five years, he added r
says Judy Van de Water, an internal medicine specialist at the University of California, Davis, who did not take part in the research. his study getting data that can begin addressing the connection more directly.
Now, researchers led by Harish Bhaskaran, a nanoengineering expert at the University of Oxford in the United kingdom,
says Steven Deeks, an HIV/AIDS clinician at the University of California, San francisco (UCSF), who tests cure strategies. here really is zero room for error.
and involved a collaboration between three universities and a biotech company. Both groups designed artificial versions of antibodies, the Y-shaped molecules made by the immune system to target pathogens.
David Margolis, a virologist at the University of North carolina, Chapel hill, and co-author of the JCI study,
a mechanical engineer at University of Bristol in the United kingdom. oue got this array of loudspeakers
Tony Jun Huang, a mechanical engineer at Pennsylvania State university, University Park, says he hopes this brings acoustic manipulation into the spotlight. ot many people work in this field,
And that exactly what Drinkwater and Asier Marzo, first author and computational engineer at the University of Bristol, hope to do next. y main target for the future is in vivo levitation,
or spherical, says grad student Nathan Cermak, one of the paper lead authors. Postdoc Selim Olcum is also a lead author of the paper;
Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT departments of Biological engineering and Mechanical engineering, and a member of MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the paper senior author.
says Michael Roukes, a professor of physics, applied physics, and bioengineering at Caltech, who is pioneering the development of inertial imaging
a postdoc who led the research in the laboratory of Jeroen Saeij, the Robert A. Swanson Career development Associate professor of Life sciences in MIT Department of biology.
a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard School of Public health who was involved not in the research. trikingly,
and James Fox all professors of biological engineering at MIT had identified the presence of a lesion,
says John Essigmann, the William R. 1956) and Betsy P. Leitch Professor in Residence Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology and Biological engineering at MIT,
Yinsheng Wang, a principal investigator in the Department of chemistry at the University of California at Riverside who was involved not in the research,
the researchers predict that accumulation of the lesions would increase the mutation rate of a cell up to 30-fold,
the John D. Macarthur Professor of Physics at MIT. e use ultracold atoms to map out
In this sense, we are ahead of nature. etterle team members include graduate students Colin Kennedy, William Cody Burton,
Just a few feet away, Phd student Joao Ramos stands on a platform, wearing an exoskeleton of wires and motors.
and his colleagues, including Phd student Albert Wang and Sangbae Kim, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Center Career development Assistant professor of Mechanical engineering,
you can have the human do it. onathan Hurst, associate professor of mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering at Oregon State university,
MIT professor of materials science and engineering and director of the MIT Microphotonics Center. e don look at this the way we still look at fiber,
says Rajeev Ram, professor of electrical engineering at MIT. His group develops energy-efficient photonics, nd the way we do that is to miniaturize the devices,
who collaborated as a high school student while enrolled in MIT's Research Science Institute (RSI) program.
and CEE department head Professor Markus Buehler, the study senior author published their findings In ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering.
The self learning database, after running a stream of simulations, will record the protein preferred conformations and store the final structures. ith this program,
The new system, described in the Journal of 3d printing and Additive manufacturing, was developed by Neri Oxman, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab;
They were joined by James Weaver of Harvard university Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Giorgia Franchin and Paolo Colombo of the University of Padova in Italy f
an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering. hese bacteriophages are designed in a way that relatively modular.
Other authors are MIT research scientist Sebastien Lemire and Diana Pires, a research fellow at the University of Minho in Portugal.
and John van der Oost at Wageningen University, describe the unexpected biological features of this new system
says Zhang, the W. M. Keck Assistant professor in Biomedical engineering in MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive sciences.
and other processes, is described in a paper by Department of Mechanical engineering Professor Evelyn Wang, graduate student Jeremy Cho,
and recent graduate Jordan Mizerak 4, published in the journal Nature Communications. This degree of control over the boiling process, independent of temperature, Wang says,
says Satish Kandlikar, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Rochester Institute of technology, who was involved not in this research. uch control strategies will dramatically alter the heat transfer paradigm in many applications,
says Phd student Fadel Adib, who is lead author on the new paper. F Capture would enable motion capture without body sensors
according to MIT professor and paper co-author Dina Katabi. ee working to turn this technology into an in-home device that can call 911
whose other co-authors include MIT professor Frédo Durand, Phd student Chen-Yu Hsu, and undergraduate intern Hongzi Mao. ee just at the beginning of thinking about the different ways to use these technologies.
How it works The device works by transmitting wireless signals that traverse the wall and reflect off a person body back to the device.
who is the Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown & Sons Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.
a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of business who specializes in corporate valuations, said that while financial data on these unicorns is limited often,
#Self-assembling, bioinstructive collagen materials for research, medical applications A Purdue University researcher and entrepreneur is commercializing her laboratory's innovative collagen formulations that self-assemble
Sherry Harbin, an associate professor in Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical engineering and Department of Basic Medical sciences
Professor Shin'ichi Ishiwata (Graduate school of Advanced Science and Engineering) and Research Assistant Makito Miyazaki's (Research Institute for Science and Engineering) research team at the Waseda Bioscience Research Institute
#New technology could speed up lifesaving drug discoveries A team of researchers from our University has developed a revolutionary new biochip device that will lead to a faster
The device was developed at Bath by researchers Dr Pedro Estrela and Phd student Nikhil Bhalla in the Department of Electronic & Electrical engineering, Dr Mirella Di Lorenzo in the Department of Chemical engineering,
Revolutionising drug discovery Dr Giordano Pula, Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology said:"
""The free flow of information between departments at the University of Bath promoted this collaboration
the Clinic for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Plastic surgery at the Leipzig University Hospital; University of Applied sciences Zwickau and its Research and Transfer Centre;
AQ Implants Gmbh; and MSB-Orthopädie-Technik Gmbh.""The margin of error in our process is less than one centimeter,
Initial testing of a measuring system prototype has met already with success at the Leipzig University hospital. There are plans for a clinical trial later this year
four students at the MIT Sloan School of management developed a system for captioning online video that was far more efficient than traditional methods,
Landing a gig to caption videos from five MIT Opencourseware (OCW) classes, the students were able to caption 100 hours of content in a fraction the time of manual captioning.
This marked the beginning of captioning-service company 3play Media which now boasts more than 1, 000 clients and an equal number of contracted editors processing hundreds of hours of content per day.
Clients include academic institutions, government agencies, and big-name companiesuch as Netflix, Viacom, and Time warner Cables well as many users of video-sharing websites.
"says 3play cofounder and chief technology officer C. J. Johnson'02, MBA'08, who co-invented the system in MIT's Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)."
and other universities, to online learning platforms, including edx. These transcripts scroll along with video, highlighting text that's spoken,
In addition to Johnson, 3play's cofounders and system co-inventors are Josh Miller MBA'09, Chris Antunes MBA'08,
and Jeremy Barron MBA'08. Tools of the trade Over the years 3play has developed also a number of tools aimed at easing workflow. One tool allows users to switch captioning formats with the click of a button;
This led the students to the Spoken language Systems Group directed by James Glass, a senior research scientist at CSAIL.
"At one point, they found a list of every college and university in the country,
Dozens of other educational institutions followed, including Princeton university, Boston University, Harvard Business school, Johns hopkins university, and others. Over the years, MIT has used 3play to caption videos produced for its Infinite History project, MIT Sloan,
and the Industrial Liaison Programhich was the first to use interactive transcripts in 2009. More recently, the company entered the entertainment space,
#Breakthrough finds molecules that block previously'undruggable'protein tied to cancer A team of scientists at the University of Kansas has pinpointed six chemical compounds that thwart Hur,
"said Liang Xu, associate professor of molecular biosciences and corresponding author of the paper. The results hold promise for treating a broad array of cancers in people.
when Rasmussen was in graduate school. That experience fueled her ambition to develop better prosthetics, and she has devoted her life to doing just that.
including putting Rasmussen and her brothers through college. Carman did so by working nights as a nurse.
"Rasmussen holds a Phd in chemistry, specialty polymer chemistry, from Virginia Tech and a master's degree in biology, specialty biophysics, from Purdue University.
Rasmussen has worked also with numerous interns pursuing careers in science and engineering through PPPL's college internship program."
increasing energy efficiency and making energy environmentally benign and sustainable,"said Fanglin (Frank) Chen, a chemical engineering professor at the University of South carolina."
a professor at Clemson University and co-author of the work.""The CFO reacts with the excess Gd present in the grain boundary of GDC to form a third phase.
electronics and the environment,"said Michael L. Cherry, chair and professor, LSU Department of physics and Astronomy."
"Professor Stadler's magnetocaloric materials program is an example of this research that appears to be directly relevant to energy development and Louisiana's economy.
It also provides excellent training opportunities for Louisiana's students.""In this new technology, a magnetic field magnetically orders the material at ambient temperature,
"says Tejas Kulkarni, an MIT graduate student in brain and cognitive sciences and first author on the new paper."
"Joining Kulkarni on the paper are his adviser, professor of brain and cognitive sciences Josh Tenenbaum;
like the MIT graduate student Larry Roberts, argued that deducing objects'three-dimensional shapes from visual information was simply the same problem in reverse.
the heavy lifting is done by the inference algorithmhe algorithm that continuously readjusts probabilities on the basis of new pieces of training data.
"Using learning to improve inference will be task-specific, but probabilistic programming may alleviate rewriting code across different problems,
if the learning machinery is powerful enough to learn different strategies for different tasks.""""Picture provides a general framework that aims to solve nearly all tasks in computer vision,
"says Jianxiong Xiao, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton university, who was involved not in the work."
For the past several years, Masoud Agah, an associate professor In virginia Tech's Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer engineering
Agah and his graduate students Muhammad Akbar (Islamabad, Pakistan), and Dr. Hamza Shakeel (Rawalpindi, Pakistan), developed a unique gas chromatography-on-chip module."
#Lab team develops hyper-stretchable elastic-composite energy harvester A research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials science and engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science
researchers from KAIST and Seoul National University (SNU) have collaborated and demonstrated a facile methodology to obtain a high-performance
Professor Lee said, "This exciting approach introduces an ultra-stretchable piezoelectric generator. It can open avenues for power supplies in universal wearable and biomedical applications as well as self-powered ultra-stretchable electronics."
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