and weighing only 3g/m 2 are 30 times lighter than office paper. They also feature a bend radius of 5 microns meaning they can be scrunched up into a ball without breaking.
and even worn without restricting the users movement. The integrated circuits are manufactured on rolls of one micron thick plastic film making them easily scalable and cheap to produce.
The force on the tip of the robot is estimated from the air pressure data and that information is sent to the surgeon master robot.
Here the user is operating the master robot. This demonstration enables you to experience for example how you can feel the reaction force
The images are analyzed by a computer and the robot works out which way to orient the tofu.
and software engineering as well as technical staff and instructors including myself. Our task was to design and build a functional prototype that would demonstrate three key abilities of the system:(
and (2) measurement information (or control information) needed to be transmitted to the vehicle wirelessly for control purposes which at the time of development (using Wifi) generally incurred a lot of latency and packet loss.
Designed from the ground upeach unit uses a single 32-bit 72 MHZ microcontroller to interface with all of the onboard sensors actuators and communication peripherals.
The same microcontroller is used also for performing all of the computation necessary for estimation and control there is no computation that is performed offboard.
An interchangeable wireless module (either Wifi or proprietary frequency hopping spread spectrum) allows us to communicate with each unit e g. telemetry and user commands;
in the case where external sensors are used (e g. 3d motion capture system) the data can be sent to the units over this wireless link.
Standard on most aerial vehicles is a 3-axis rate-gyroscope which is used for measuring body angular velocities as well as estimating the attitude of the vehicle in flight.
With this we developed our own network layer to handle inter-unit communication as well as algorithms for routing packets time synchronization information fusion etc. on a resource limited embedded system.
The only information that a unit needs for flight is its local sensor data and its position with respect to the vehicle centre of mass.
The Distributed Flight Array is currently being used at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich as a modular robotics platform for investigating algorithms in distributed estimation and control.
these models are leveraged then by a branch of mathematics called Control theory to synthesize algorithms for controlling them.
TED just posted an update on their blog about the demo here and we will link to the video of the talk as soon as it goes online.
and algorithms that make this demonstration possible and that was just to get to the point where they could do the demos in-house.
and demo their quadrotor tricks at the ETH Flying Machine Arenaâ a 10x10x10m airspace dedicated to the study of control algorithms
and featuring aâ high-precision motion capture system a wireless communication network and custom software for executing estimation and control.
and at Google annual flagship conference Google IO in San francisco. Still it takes a lot of time
and careful planning to recreate the set up at a new site and on this occasion they were planning a video shoot as well as a live audience.
a script takes 3d models designed by the user in CAD software converts them into 3d curves
but none are offering them at low cost or with user friendly training or the plug and play and safety features.
Rethink Robotics Baxterrethink Robotics##new Baxter robot is getting a software upgrade. Big deal? Actually it is.
Brooks vision was to have a hardware platform frequently enhanced with new software and capabilities#and it is happening as promised and on schedule.
Rethink recently launched an academic version of Baxter with a Software Development Kit (SDK) enabling users to train the robot and share their programs with other Baxter owners.
Just the other day Rethink upgraded their operating system to V1. 1 to make it easier to integrate existing factory machine synchronization
This new update also enables users to coordinate actions across Baxter s two arms. Baxters are being produced at a pace for sales of 500+units in 2013.
or more to get the end price due to safety guarding and expensive programming. None of this is necessary with the new Universal Robots.##
#We believe these new robots will soon cross the chasm between early adopters and mainstream users.##
###Once purchased our users can expect a steady stream of software upgrades giving them access to all the new features on the latest robots to leave the factory.
and is among the first plastics processors to deploy a Baxter robot. It is being used for repetitive tasks like picking up parts off a conveyor
we needed a very large robotic data set of visually salient image features paired with corresponding robotic state estimates,
and it was simply infeasible to gather all this data by ourselves. That where the Parrot AR.
We thought we could develop a game for the Parrot that would serve as a means for crowdsourcing the data we needed.
and can be controlled by an ios device, data-gathering could be done in a gaming context,
making it fun for people to participate in the experiment. To this end, we designed a mission-based game where players simulate docking the Parrot with the International space station as quickly as possible
It can be controlled by smart devices such as the iphone or Android devices, which can be used send data over the internet.
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.
Having a reference object of known size was a goal since it would provide some form of ground-truth measurement.
Figure 1 shows two configurations that give exactly the same marker detection data. In the edcase, the marker is in the left part of the image
sending and receiving data from the drone, performing state estimation (X y z) with respect to the marker and rendering the 3d world.
Because of the iphone computational constraints, we decided to save 5 subsequent images while the player is trying to dock
After extracting the vision data and concatenating this with the state estimates, the data is encrypted for transmission.
Finally, since some players may use 3g for sending their data we considered that the data should be as compact as possible.
Therefore, the data is compressed on board the iphone before being sent. The data from 5 textured images on average takes around 77 kb.
Testing and Launch Our original plan was to work on the game from February to April 2012,
launch it in May or June, and analyze the data from August to September. In reality, we didn converge on the final code until November 2012.
Of course, when you are developing the app, you know the program inside out and by habit you may avoid playing the game in such a way that would make the program malfunction.
So in November we invited other people try out and rate the app. The ratings and comments were used to perform some final adjustments,
Parrot also promoted our app on their site. The news was picked soon up by BBC Technology
and 458 of these people had contributed already to our experiment by sending their data. This is a nice start,
For example, if an ipad or ipod is connected to the drone Wifi, it cannot send its data.
There was no message that showed the absence of an internet connection (solved in version 1. 2). At the same time
we have started analyzing all the data that is coming in. 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, and as useful as possible for our research.
In any case, it an adventure to work with this exciting new way of gathering robotic data n
as a personal mobile device for intravenous equipment at a hospital, or topped with a telepresence device and acting as a museum tour guide.
This process of measuring, computing, and actuating happens 160 times per second, and the underlying controller is key to achieving robust and dynamic movement.
#Desktop PC-sized fully automatic genetic testing device The Genelead from Precision System Science (PSS) is a fully automatic genetic testing device that completely automates the genetic testing process that ordinarily would require manual intervention.
It is just about the same size as a computer so one of its features is being easily usable in any location.
Using an intuitive ipad interface, a doctor can visit a patient, and communicate with hospital staff and patients with a single click, regardless of their location.
For traditional radio frequency helicopters in same frequency cannot fly together because of interference. With 2. 4ghz radio system many helicopters can fly at the same time without interference.
electroencephalogram (EEG) headset hooked up to a PC running custom software. By thinking left strongly the mind-pilot can make the drone take off;
which were limited to two sites and were difficult to place accurately on the spinal cord. Drug delivery was via an intraperitoneal injection i e. an injection into the body cavity.
E-dura is implanted over the lumbosacral segments below the site of injury and engages with the#dormant#lumbar locomotor circuits.
and involved a team comprising experts in materials science electronics neuroscience medicine and algorithm programming. Co-author Prof.
#Kubi telemedicine device gets HIPAA clearance for streaming medical data Revolve Robotics and Swymed have collaborated to create a HIPAA compliant telepresence device called Kubi that can stream medical data.
This compliance is a big deal: no longer do MDS have to rely only upon what they see,
they can use data streaming directly to the app to help make decisions. In smaller rural hospitals or even in ambulances, where a specialist cannot be physically there,
HIPAA compliance means that medical data can be streamed. A simple MD telepresence consult, which is similar to a telephone call,
But once you start implementing data, you enter into a new realm or regulations. While the RP-Vita by irobot/intouch Health has HIPAA compliance as well,
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.
however, Google scrapped the design, saying that it was difficult to control and didn perform well in high winds.
Since then, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new algorithm for robustly controlling a tailsitter flying machine in hover position.
Using the algorithm the tailsitter is able to recover from any orientation, including upside down. ETH has demonstrated not yet its algorithm in real-world conditions (e g.,
, high winds, GPS localization, different payload distributions. However, given the robustness of the solution shown in the video,
perhaps Google should not dismiss the tailsitter design too quickly for its next design iteration.
The algorithm demonstrated in the video is based on Optimal Control. Optimal trajectories for a set of initial orientations are precomputed
The algorithm is presented in research paper Global Strategy for Tailsitter Hover Control submitted to International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2015.
The panel agreed on one thing: Without renewable energy, we cannot end poverty by 2030. enewable energy is the foundation of a modern economy,
and analyze the data. That why I so excited by this. hile this initial result is essentially a proof of concept rather than a practical system,
and their overall business. ade possible by the digital economy, forward-thinking businesses are choosing to embrace this value to intentionally reimagine the economy around how we use resources,
In his blog 99 Mind-blowing Ways the Digital economy Is Changing the Future of Business, Vivek Bapat revealed that 68%of consumers are interested in companies that bring social and environmental change.
Promote a platform for collaboration among product users as individuals or organizations. Product as a service:
"The actors are filmed against a green screen, and the background, created by the studio's graphic designers,
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,
nor do their names appear on the screen.""They never state that they are the instructor,
The team uses Adobe Connect to capture the audio and the Powerpoint slides.""That's a fairly simple way to get something on the ground
"Most of the SMES we've worked with are comfortable creating voice over Powerpoint. That's an easy way for them to get their content out
The instructor would use his or her slides on a monitor as a form of teleprompter.
the monitor wasn't exactly in line with the camera, and student feedback could be harsh:"
#Researchers at Brown U Develop Terahertz Wireless Multiplexing A Brown University-led team of researchers has developed a system for multiplexing
solving one of the technical challenges of terahertz wireless networking, which could potentially deliver data at rates that are up to 100 times faster than current wireless technology.
Terahertz waves operate at a much higher frequency than the microwaves used in cellular and Wi-fi communications,
and can therefore offer much greater bandwidth. However, there are numerous technical challenges to solve before terahertz wireless can become a reality.
This new multiplexing system potentially solves one of those challenges. Multiplexing is the process of separating streams of data that are traveling through a single medium
such as a single TV cable carrying multiple channels.""Any terahertz communications application is going to need some form of multiplexing
"Each frequency can carry a separate data stream, and the data receiver at the other end could pick up an individual stream by accepting radiation at a specific angle.
The researchers published a paper, "Frequency-Division Multiplexing in the Terahertz Range Using a Leaky-Wave Antenna,"in Nature Photonics on September 14.
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,
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,
and interacting with virtual patients in the computer, she said. With the new software, not only will they be able to train to perform various procedures,
but immediately see the affects actions and treatments have on the patient. The Defense Medical Research Development Program put $7 million up for the new software
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,
Carter said. hat the Army is hoping is that this physiology engine becomes the standard for physiology simulations,
This software allows anyone in the military, Dod-wide, to take this as a building block for simulation
as open source, ore people can get into the ballgameto build simulation programs, he said e
#NASA's drone is part chopper, part airplane Answer: NASA'S latest drone prototype, GL-10.
The Rubik's Cube. iphones. Snuggies. Then there are the things the world needs. The wheel.
"entomologist and science reporter Aaron Pomerantz wrote on his site last month after taking one to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest."
Last year, Prakash and his team distributed 10,000 Foldscopes to eager users willing to test them out.
Users are submitting their findings at the Foldscope site, with investigations ranging from first-graders looking at banana seeds to detection of parasitic worms in fecal samples.
"he said in a Stanford blog post last year. Unfortunately, Foldscope isn't currently available,
and bionic hands that can be controlled through an iphone. The big benefit of Sanchez's approach is being able to use prostheses for people with spinal cord injuries,
they used the Southern African Large telescope to gather data to help determine the size of the black hole.
The data indicated the black hole is 30 times larger than expected for this size of galaxy, according to a press release from the Royal Astronomical Society."
and so do the black holes in their cores. This one though is really too big for its boots--it simply shouldn't be possible for it to be said so large
#Compulsively checking Facebook will now include impulse shopping Facebook will soon start looking more and more like an online shopping mall.
The social network said Monday that it is adding a new mobile"shopping"tab where you can buy clothes, electronics and other items without ever leaving Facebook's confines.
For example, click on a shirt featured in a Target ad and the site will immediately direct to Target's shopping page where you can select the color
Like many of Facebook's most recent efforts, the goal is to cut down on slow loading speeds
and corral more user activity into the social network's streamlined walled garden rather than directing users off into the messy outside web.
Facebook is hoping that the smoother experience will make mobile shopping more attractive to web surfers,
who still do most of their shopping on desktop despite spending an increasing portion of their Internet time on smartphones.
"Facebook wrote in Monday's announcement.""Customers can experience slow load times and too many steps on the way to checkout.
"Facebook first began testing the new shopping features with a limited number of retailers back in July.
According to a company survey, nearly half of its 1. 5 billion users come to the site actively looking for products,
Mobile advertising is Facebook's fastest growing revenue area by far; last quarter it accounted for 76%of the social network's $3. 8 billion total ads revenue.
But because of the screen constraints and the way people typically use their smartphones, it's traditionally been hard to push mobile ads for anything other than branding purposes that is,
to impress upon you a positive association with a particular company. Facebook has been fervently trying to change that with ads that place more emphasis on prodding users into taking action
whether it be buying a product, signing up for a company newsletter or downloading an app.
it's doing this by absorbing features that would've previously required loading a separate page for an advertiser website.
It's not the only social network trying to break into the shopping game. Rivals Twitter and Pinterest have launched also e-commerce platforms of their own
and Facebook-owned Instagram is also pushing its own version of"buy"buttons t
#Report: 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.
Walmart plans to use drones from DJI to monitor inventories outside their warehouses, deliver packages to customers, many of
Nepal's national emergency operation centre said on twitter, less than three weeks after a similar disaster killed more than 8, 000 people.
and avoid jamming the fragile cellphone network.""Please stay in open field, help us make free road,
do not make phone nw (network) busy. SMS is suggested, "said a message from the national police service's Twitter account.
Nepal's National Emergency Operation center tweeted:""Pray to Almighty: Keep all Nepalese Safe in this difficult period of time."
#Skype's Real-time Translator Now Open to All Microsoft-owned Skype has cleared the way for anyone to use a new feature that translates video chats or instant messages in real time.
People no longer need to sign up to use a preview version of Skype Translator, which handles spoken English, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin.
with missives written in one language arriving converted into a preferred language, according to Skype.""We are breaking down language barriers that have made historically it challenging for friends
"Yasmin Kahn of Skype said in a blog post. Skype Translator was made available as a free download at the Windows Store for computers
or tablets running on the latest version of Microsoft's operating software, according to Kahn. Skype Translator preview debuted late last year,
but was invitation-only to allow time and testing for refining the service.""Our goal for Skype Translator is to translate as many languages as possible on relevant platforms,
and to deliver the best speech translation experience to our more than 300 million connected Skype customers,
"Kahn said. Google earlier this year debuted a feature for its Translate app that allows people to pair any two of 38 language options for translation,
and also automatically translates when pointed at text items or signs s
#Artificial Octopus Arm Performs Surgery About 10 years ago, the Pentagon funded a science project to build an entire eight-armed artificial octopus,
capable of squeezing, holding and grabbing objects with soft, flexible arms just like a real one.
#Google Self-driving cars Ready for Public roads Google announced Friday its self-driving prototype cars were ready to leave the test track
The move comes after Google's internal testing of the bubble-shaped vehicle over the past year
with our safety drivers aboard,"said project chief Chris Urmson in a blog post.""We've been running the vehicles through rigorous testing at our test facilities,
and ensuring our software and sensors work as theye supposed to on this new vehicle."
"The Google car uses the same technology as its fleet of Lexus SUVS which has logged some 1. 6 million kilometers (one million miles)."
In Google's home town of Mountain view, speeds will be limited to 40 kilometers (25 miles per hour "and during this next phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
"Google said earlier this week its adapted vehicles on the road had been involved in 11 minor accidents, but that none were the fault of the technology.
there hasn been a simple, inexpensive and quick way to monitor water quality. But a team of entrepreneurs from Calgary, Canada, has developed a solution.
and then from there you can wirelessly monitor remote locations without needing to go there and physically take a sample yourself,
sends the electrical signal to a mobile phone or a server. The signal can be accessed using 3g, Wi-fi or a USB connection on a computer.
The scientists, who started working on FRED while undergraduates at the University of Calgary, have won several competitions for their device
The device could be used to test water near mining sites, water treatment plants or just about anywhere clean,
before settling in a new site, and are thus very hard to spot. The study, published in the journal Nature Communication, suggests that capturing CTCS would prevent their spread and help halt disease progression."
and implanted two per mouse. The implant--which used immune cells as bait--also contained a scanner to detect the presence of trapped cells."
"Shea said by email.""The initial benefit is detection--catching the metastasis before it spreads widely throughout the body,
Existing neuroprostheses require the user to generate specific brainwave activities for particular motions xtend left arm, for instance.
future cell phones may see an increase in run time after many uses, rather than a decrease,
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and you can say same thing for screens on laptops and phones. A team from the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science are working toward that goal.
The authors used computer simulations to figure out what would happen if engineers removed a whopping 5 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.
Very few people have data supporting it, 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.
#Light-based memory chip is first to permanently store data Today electronic computer chips work at blazing speeds.
and moves data with photons of light instead of electrons would make today chips look like proverbial horses and buggies.
When electrons move through the basic parts of a computer chipogic circuits that manipulate data,
can store data only if they have a steady supply of power. When the power is turned off,
the data disappear, too. Now, researchers led by Harish Bhaskaran, a nanoengineering expert at the University of Oxford in the United kingdom,
and electrical engineer Wolfram Pernice at the Karlsruhe Institute of technology in Germany, have hit on a solution to the disappearing memory problem using a material at the heart of rewritable CDS and DVDS.
and CDS and DVDS use this difference to store data. To read out the datatored as patterns of tiny spots with a crystalline
or amorphous order CD or DVD drive shines low-intensity laser light on a disk and tracks the way the light bounces off.
whether they could use this property to permanently store data on a chip and later read it Out to do used so,
To write data in this layer, the scientists piped an intense pulse of light into the waveguide.
When the researchers wanted to read the data, they beamed in less intense pulses of light and measured how much light was transmitted through the waveguide.
they knew their data spot on the GST had an amorphous order; if more was absorbed, that meant it was crystalline.
and their colleagues also took steps to dramatically increase the amount of data they could store
and read multiple bits of data simultaneously, something you can do with electrical data storage devices. And, as they report this week in Nature Photonics,
by varying the intensity of their data-writing pulses, they were also able to control how much of each GST patch turned crystalline or amorphous at any one time.
With this method they could make one patch 90%amorphous but just 10%crystalline, and another 80%amorphous and 20%crystalline.
That made it possible to store data in eight different such combinations, not just the usual binary 1s and 0s that would be used for 100%amorphous or crystalline spots.
This dramatically boosts the amount of data each spot can store, Bhaskaran says. Photonic memories still have a long way to go
the resulting chips have the potential to run at 50 to 100 times the speed of today computer processors f
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