The algorithm exploits rotational noise: each time the joystick tells the robots to turn every robot turns a slightly different amount due to random wheel slip.
and Aerovironment PUMA have become the first federally certified unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for civilian use in the US.
Using some of the most recent advances in manufacturing technology the chassis was 3d printed this time around enabling us to design with very little fabrication constraints
One of the nice things about using 3d printer technology is that the omni-wheels could be printed as a single piece without having to assemble any components.
Dndrea talk is about achine Athleticismthe ability of machines to perform dynamic feats that fully exploit their physical capabilities.
#New additive manufacturing method builds up objects with real 3d curves instead of 2d layers Mataerial is a new 3d printing method that uses extrusion technology
and a two-component thermosetting polymer to build up objects on any working surface that the polymer can adhere to including floors walls and ceilings without the need for additional support structures.
While other 3d printing methods build up objects by successive 2d layering this process truly builds up objects in all three dimensions:
By combining these 3d curves a variety of shapes can be achieved that would be impossible with other 3d printing methods.
or equip a small autonomous flying robot with limited payload. Other applications include home automation surveillance medical instruments prosthetic devices and smart clothing.
Drone and a scientific crowdsourcing experiment that aims to improve landing, obstacle avoidance and docking capabilities in autonomous space probes.
The AR stands for Augmented reality, 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.
And because the Parrot was designed to be used in augmented reality games and can be controlled by an ios device,
In the future, we may also improve our crowdsourcing game in various ways, in order to make it as fun and easy as possible for players,
or topped with a telepresence device and acting as a museum tour guide. Rezero could even one day rival the Segway as a personal transportation device.
and Swymed have collaborated to create a HIPAA compliant telepresence device called Kubi that can stream medical data.
A simple MD telepresence consult, which is similar to a telephone call, would not require this type of certification.
, high winds, GPS localization, different payload distributions. However, given the robustness of the solution shown in the video,
The propellers are driven by brushless Hacker A05-13s motors that are attached to the wings by 3d printed mountings.
#Why we need renewable energy to end poverty More than 700 million people live in extreme poverty around the world.
It emphasizes the role of renewable energy in getting us to the finish line of reaching sustainable energy for all by 2030.
During an Oct 9 panel discussion at the World bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings in Lima, Peru, seven public and private experts converged to talk about renewable energy,
which has made great strides in renewables, especially hydropower, but struggles with distribution. frican villages are isolated quite.
Senegal Minister of Energy and Development of Renewable energies. e can resolve it without financing solutions to transportation and distribution issues.
We try to demonstrate that renewable energy is part of the solution. Jordan was able to turn a crisis into an opportunity. ur story is one of resilience and turning challenges into opportunities.
Without renewable energy, we cannot end poverty by 2030. enewable energy is the foundation of a modern economy,
Surprisingly, the researchers at MIT and Eni, the Italian energy company, achieved this new approach to solar energy not with high-tech materials
In 2008, Lloyd had published a paper demonstrating that photosynthetic organisms transmit light energy efficiently because of these quantum effects.
and to collect solar energy. oing whatever we want with light waves is said really exciting Kanté. sing this technology,
We can change the way light waves are being reflected at will and ultimately focus a large area of sunlight onto a solar power tower
And not only in a virtual world, but with high-tech mannequins, according to Jenn Carter, senior scientist and project manager for new program, called Biogears. et say a person is performing CPR on a mannequin,
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,
which not only may be downloaded into Dod existing virtual reality and mannequin training system, 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,
it is an innovative new concept for an unmanned vehicle (UAV) from NASA's Langley Research center in Hampton, Virginia.
#Google Self-driving cars Ready for Public roads Google announced Friday its self-driving prototype cars were ready to leave the test track
and recently achieved their crowdfunding goal on Boostr to advance their prototype. The device could be used to test water near mining sites, water treatment plants or just about anywhere clean,
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind energy and Energy system Technology IWES in Kassel, Germany, have developed a wireless charger system that not only recharges a battery but also feeds excess energy back into the electrical grid.
the technology exploits the face s a major indicator of individual well-being by tracing traits of physical and expressive status. The goal is to someday implement these mirrors in home, fitness and nutritional centers, pharmacies
and nearly quadrupling its solar power generating capacity by 2020. Andrew Steer president of the World Resources Institute, a global natural resources think tank, said in a statement that Friday announcement lays a cornerstone for a global climate agreement in Paris in December. hese two countries have found common ground
#New Energy storage: Caves Full of Compressed air An unusual project that would store renewable energy in huge amounts of compressed air in two man-made caverns for use in energy generation has been lighted green by the European union.
Energy company Gaeletric project, which will be created under the coastline of Northern ireland County Antrim, will be funded with the help of a EU grant of 6. 5 Million euros ($7. 1 million).
The Compressed air Energy storage (CAES) facility, which would be one of only a few in the world,
would solve one of the major problems with wind and solar power. Both forms of renewable energy generation tend to fluctuate based upon
whether the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. But if a producer could store energy from those sources
and burning biofuels and storing the emitted carbon dioxide underground. These may sound farfetched, but the Intergovernmental panel on climate change concluded last year that reaching a key emissions goaloughly equivalent to limiting warming to 2°C by 2100ould rely on the deployment of one or several CDR technologies.
Applications range from data processing and communications to sensors on a chip n
#A new molecular design approach For decades, materials scientists have worked to infuse the lessons learned from natural proteins into the design of new materials.
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;
The concept began as a project in a course on additive manufacturing, Klein says; he and others decided to refine the concept
#How wireless-ray visioncould power virtual reality, smart homes, and Hollywood A team of researchers at MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has believed long that wireless signals like Wifi can be used to see things that are invisible to the naked eye.
"Differences in the availability of state incentives for renewable energy also had noted an effect Haerer.""States with incentives have more growth,
#Singapore Telecom to buy US cybersecurity firm for $810 mn Singapore Telecom (Singtel) said Wednesday it will buy almost all of US cybersecurity firm Trustwave for $810 million,
"We aspire top be a global player in cybersecurity, "Singtel group chief executive Chua Sock Koong said in the statement.
for example, the artificial joints may eventually Break in addition, orthopedic surgeons currently have no suitable method for precisely measuring leg length before the operation
The new system was developed within the"artificial joints"cooperative network which is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWI) and coordinated by Fraunhofer IWU.
and the modular hip implant as well as the artificial joint network e
#Automated captioning system processes hundreds of video-hours per day In 2008, four students at the MIT Sloan School of management developed a system for captioning online video that was far more efficient than traditional methods,
The KU researchers confirmed the potential of the most promising compounds with cutting-edge techniques like Amplified Luminescent Proximity Homogeneous Assay, surface plasmon resonance,
300 pounds of supplies and payloads, including material for research experiments, to the International space station National Laboratory.
She plans to attend the payload launch at the Cape canaveral Air force station Kennedy space center with her 12-year-old son Carl,
New nanomaterials will boost renewable energy More information:""Soft Landing of Bare Nanoparticles with Controlled Size, Composition, and Morphology."
which computers are turned loose on huge data sets to look for patterns. To make machine-learning applications easier to build,
and the Internet of things (Iots). However, is the degree of flexibility enough for most applications? For many flexible devices, elasticity is a very important issue.
compare data sets, organise, annotate and drill down into the fine detail.""The team now wants to take their prototype to the next level,
#Assuring solar modules will last for decades The Energy department's National Renewable energy Laboratory (NREL) is co-leading an international push to assure the reliability of solar panelsn assurance demanded by customers, manufacturers, lenders, and utilities.
or underperforming panels is very lowust 0. 1%per year according to new data of 50,000 systems analyzed by the Energy department's National Renewable energy Laboratory (NREL).
In a research paper published in the Journal of Cell biology, Alessandro Vindigni, Ph d.,professor in the Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology at Saint louis University
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.
and the Internet of things. A camera that can function as an untethered device foreverithout any external power supplyould be incredibly useful."
which is housed in a 3d printed body, each pixel's photodiode is operated always in the photovoltaic mode.
"It was a real challenge to get the synchronisation right so we could accurately blend the real and virtual realities.
In the future this blending of virtual realities is going to increase in a very positive way. We have to just make sure we get the balance right."
A key aspect of this is utilising breakthroughs in genomics research to guide the selection of the individuals to incorporate in breeding schemes.
and the team subjected it to a"Trojan horse"attack. This involves Eve shining a bright light at Alice
such as a type of cloud computing to share the processing power of future quantum computers, might also be vulnerable to laser damage.
for many years, researchers have explored other options that would provide greater energy storage for a given weight.
#Researchers Reveal Why Black Phosphorus May Surpass Graphene In a newly published study, researchers from the Pohang University of Science and Technology detail how they were able to turn black phosphorus into a superior conductor that can be mass produced for electronic and optoelectronics devices.
a layered form of carbon atoms constructed to resemble honeycomb, called graphene. Graphene was heralded globally as a wonder-material thanks to the work of two British scientists who won the Nobel prize for Physics for their research on it.
Graphene is extremely thin and has remarkable attributes. It is stronger than steel yet many times lighter
more conductive than copper and more flexible than rubber. All these properties combined make it a tremendous conductor of heat and electricity.
graphene has no band gap. Stepping stones to a Unique Statea material band gap is fundamental to determining its electrical conductivity.
Graphene has a band gap of zero in its natural state, however, and so acts like a conductor;
Like graphene, BP is a semiconductor and also cheap to mass produce. The one big difference between the two is BP natural band gap
therefore we tuned BP band gap to resemble the natural state of graphene, a unique state of matter that is different from conventional semiconductors. he potential for this new improved form of black phosphorus is beyond anything the Korean team hoped for,
#A New Frontier in 3d printing, Engineers Print Transparent Glass in 3d Engineers from MIT have developed a new system to print transparent glass in 3-D. This new system is the first to create strong, solid glass
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;
Additive manufacturing of Optically Transparent Glass developed by the Mediated Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab in collaboration with the Glass Lab at MIT.
The concept began as a project in a course on additive manufacturing, Klein says; he and others decided to refine the concept
#Pillared Graphene structures Gain Strength, Toughness and Ductility In a newly published study, scientists from Rice university reveal that putting nanotube pillars between sheets of graphene could create hybrid structures with a unique balance of strength, toughness
particularly between carbon nanotubes and graphene, would affect the final hybrid properties in all directions. They found that introducing junctions would add extra flexibility
when compared with materials made of layered graphene. Their results appear this week in the journal Carbon.
graphene is a rolled out sheet of the same. Both are super-strong and excel at transmitting electrons and heat.
the way the atoms are arranged can influence all those properties. ome labs are actively trying to make these materials or measure properties like the strength of single nanotubes and graphene sheets,
and quantitatively predict the properties of hybrid versions of graphene and nanotubes. These hybrid structures impart new properties
and functionality that are absent in their parent structures graphene and nanotubes. To that end the lab assembled three-dimensional computer models of illared graphene nanostructures, akin to the boron nitride structures modeled in a previous study to analyze heat transfer between layers. his time we were interested in a comprehensive understanding of the elastic and inelastic properties
of 3-D carbon materials to test their mechanical strength and deformation mechanisms, Shahsavari said. e compared our 3-D hybrid structures with the properties of 2-D stacked graphene sheets and 1-D carbon nanotubes.
Layered sheets of graphene keep their properties in-plane, but exhibit little stiffness or thermal conductance from sheet to sheet,
he said. But pillared graphene models showed far better strength and stiffness and a 42 percent improvement in out-of-plane ductility,
the ability to deform under stress without breaking. The latter allows pillared graphene to exhibit remarkable toughness along out-of-plane directions, a feature that is not possible in 2-D stacked graphene sheets or 1-D carbon nanotubes,
Shahsavari said. The researchers calculated how the atomsinherent energies force hexagons to take on or lose atoms to neighboring rings,
Turning the nanotubes in a way that forced wrinkles in the graphene sheets added further flexibility and shear compliance,
Miao and his team plan to build on their results by studying how atoms are arranged in materials that possess magnetism or energy storage functions,
The researchers first trained their system with existing data sets from retina and cortex before performing an automated test of new data.
since completing his Phd in Molecular biology in 1997. uring my post-doc at the Max-Planck Institute in Germany,
And renewable energy, which is subject to more fluctuations than more traditional sources, is not only here, it becoming an increasingly large source of power for many communities.
Giving renewable energy generation a boostenel, a Council Lead Partner, is making a big investment to boost the amount of energy generated from renewable sources in emerging markets,
Enel says those three countries are set to be renewable energy hotspots and its efforts not only provide more power,
but also help them achieve their renewable energy goals. The new capacity will go online this decade.
Enel also has its sights set on South africa where more than 6 GW of renewable energy capacity will eventually be auctioned.
Integrating renewable energy sourcesthe need for more timely information is driving a transmission project in Italy that does more to incorporate renewable energy while improving reliability.
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#New Memristors Could Usher in Bionic Brains Last month we saw researchers in the US push the envelope of nonvolatile memory devices based on resistance switching to the point where they are now capable of mimicking the neurons in the human brain.
#Graphene"Decorated"With Lithium Becomes a Superconductor Graphene is a conductor unlike anything seen before.
nobody had been able to make graphene behave as a superconductor, until now. An international research team from Canada and Germany has been able to demonstrate that graphene can be made to behave as a superconductor
when it doped with lithium atoms. The researchers believe that this new property could lead to a new generation of superconducting nanoscale devices.
Graphene is not naturally a superconductor, and neither is its three-dimensional sourceraphite. However, it was demonstrated a decade ago that graphite could be induced into behaving like a superconductor.
it should be with graphene, right? Other research groups believed so and developed computer models demonstrating that combining graphene with lithium might do the trick.
Lithium, they predicted, could contribute a lot of phonons to the graphene electrons. In a research paper available on arxiv, the researchers demonstrated in physical experiments that the computer models were indeed correct in their predictions.
Andrea Damascelli at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver, together with collaborators in Europe, grew layers of graphene on silicon-carbide substrates,
then deposited lithium atoms onto the graphene in a vacuum at 8 K, creating a version of graphene known as ecoratedgraphene.
In the testing and measuring of their material the researchers found that the electrons slowed down as they travelled through the lattice,
which they believe to be the result of enhanced electronhonon coupling. The key observation was increased that this number of coupled pairs led to superconductivity,
#A Driving App That Crowdsources the Weather It a cold day in winter and youe driving on dry pavement when your dashboard flashes a warning:
#Graphene and Perovskite Lead to Inexpensive and Highly Efficient Solar cells Perovskite is the new buzzword in photovoltaics.
And graphene is the buzzword for just about every other high-tech application, including photovoltaics. Now researchers at Hong kong Polytechnic University have combined these two materials to make a semitransparent solar cell capable of power conversion efficiencies around 12 percent, a significant improvement over the roughly 7-percent efficiency of traditional
and the graphene acts as the transparent electrode material. Graphene has long been pursued as a potential replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO) as a transparent electrode material for displays.
Here again, graphene transparency, high conductivity, and potentially low cost seemed attractive to the researchers. The researchers improved on the conductivity of the graphene by coating it with a thin layer of a polymer that also served as an adhesion layer to the perovskite active layer during the lamination process.
The researchers were able to improve the energy conversion capability of the solar cells by employing a multi-layer chemical vapor deposition process in
which the graphene formed the top transparent electrodes. This approach maintained the transparency of the electrodes
while increasing their sheet resistance. A big concern for the researchers was lowering costs. They claim that their solar cells cost less than US$. 06/watt,
because the mechanical flexibility of the graphene enables the possibility of roll-to-roll processing o
#Graphene and Perovskite Lead to Inexpensive and Highly Efficient Solar cells Perovskite is the new buzzword in photovoltaics.
And graphene is the buzzword for just about every other high-tech application, including photovoltaics. Now researchers at Hong kong Polytechnic University have combined these two materials to make a semitransparent solar cell capable of power conversion efficiencies around 12 percent, a significant improvement over the roughly 7-percent efficiency of traditional
and the graphene acts as the transparent electrode material. Graphene has long been pursued as a potential replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO) as a transparent electrode material for displays.
Here again, graphene transparency, high conductivity, and potentially low cost seemed attractive to the researchers. The researchers improved on the conductivity of the graphene by coating it with a thin layer of a polymer that also served as an adhesion layer to the perovskite active layer during the lamination process.
The researchers were able to improve the energy conversion capability of the solar cells by employing a multi-layer chemical vapor deposition process in
which the graphene formed the top transparent electrodes. This approach maintained the transparency of the electrodes
while increasing their sheet resistance. A big concern for the researchers was lowering costs. They claim that their solar cells cost less than US$. 06/watt,
because the mechanical flexibility of the graphene enables the possibility of roll-to-roll processing i
#Graphene's Killer App? Measuring Electrical resistance Graphene merits in electronic devices and as a light bulb coating are still being debated.
But new results suggest the atom-thick carbon sheet has one clear advantage: precise but practical calibrations of electrical resistance.
Researchers have suspected long that the unique behavior of electrons in graphene, namely the big spacing between electron energy levels when the material is exposed to a magnetic field,
In August, Jan-Theodoor Janssen at the UK National Physical Laboratory and colleagues reported a way to build a graphene resistance standard that can operate at a higher temperature and lower magnetic field.
The french team constructed its resistance device from a high-quality sheet of graphene grown on a silicon carbide wafer.
The temperature the graphene device operates at is high enough that a lab could accurately measure resistance without needing liquid helium as a refrigerant. hese results support graphene as the material of choice for the next generation of easy-to-use, helium-free,
Graphene could also help bring about the realization of a simplified ampere, one of the seven SI base units.
which is also investigating graphene potential as a resistance standard. f we are to make watt balances available to everyone,
Its development could usher in a new generation of portable sensors that can use polarized light for applications ranging from drug screening to quantum computing.
These findings could one day lead to super-dense low-power circuits as well as ultra-sensitive biosensors and gas sensors, the investigators added.
longer battery life or lower power consumption in data centers to reduce their costs and greenhouse gas emissions, and ultra-sensitive and low-power biosensors and gas sensors to enhance the Internet of things.
However, Banerjee cautions that TFETS are designed not for speed or high performance. hey are desirable for low-power electronics,
A processor from the company Edico Genome that designed to handle the big data of genetics.
Lead researcher Stephen Kingsmore, a pediatrician and genomics expert at Children Mercy Hospital in Kansas city, explains that doctors typically run targeted genetic tests for specific diseases
It just a matter of time before clinical genomics will be with us everywhere, he says. t prudent to have the infrastructure ready.
#The New Wrinkle in Graphene Is Wrinkles One of the holy grails of graphene research has been a method for achieving wafer-scale growth of wrinkle-free single-crystal monolayer graphene on a silicon wafer.
Now researchers at the RIKEN research institute in Japan have discovered that the wrinkles in graphene may be their most attractive feature.
In research published in the journal Nature Communications, the RIKEN scientists discovered that the wrinkles found in graphene create unique electronic qualities, specifically a one-dimensional electron confinement.
The other revelation yielded by this research is that it possible to manipulate the wrinkles to change graphene band gap using mechanical methods rather than chemical techniques. p until now,
efforts to manipulate the electronic properties of graphene have principally been done through chemical means, but the downside of this is that it can lead to degraded electronic properties due to chemical defects,
if this could lead to ways to find new uses for graphene. The discovery that it was possible to produce graphene semiconductors without the need to chemically dope the carbon sheets was the result of trying to produce graphene films using chemical vapor deposition (CVD.
They were attempting to use CVD to grow graphene on a nickel substrate; they were examining how they could control the process with changes in temperature. e were attempting to grow graphene on a single crystalline nickel substrate,
but in many cases we ended up creating a compound of nickel and carbon, Ni2c,
rather than graphene, explained Hyunseob Lim, the paper lead author, in a press release. n order to resolve the problem,
we tried quickly cooling the sample after the dosing with acetylene, and during that process we accidentally found small nanowrinkles, just five nanometers wide, in the sample.
and a confluence of new hardware technologies that freed computation from the desktop and automated multivariate collection of big data.
and energy storage) have liberated technology from the office desktop. At the same time inexpensive but sophisticated hardware sensors have emerged to automate the collection of massive data sets.
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.
Many investors looking at these technologies are going to need to get smart on agriculture if theye going to make informed investment decisions.
already making it one of the top 10 crowdfunding campaigns of all time. Capital keeps lining up.
Although 3d printed meat may take a while to hit the market and win trust from consumers,
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