and in April 2013 the Mayo Clinic used a 3-D printer to create a customized artificial hip.
#Squid Protein Could Help Brains'Talk'to Computers In the most advanced prosthetics--such as this crazy mind-controlled robotic arm--electronic hardware interfaces directly with nerves and muscles in the human body.
#Better micro-actuators to transport materials in liquids Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3d printing technology.
This technique is similar to a microscopic 3d printer: a laser beam is moved in a computer-controlled three-dimensional manner within the epoxy resin layer
and so we remove the screen in order to encourage direct interaction with Wigl. After extensive testing at a number of schools and children s museums over the past year and a half by hundreds of children and their parents Wigl is now ready for pre-orders!
and a ground landing (landing is a particularly dangerous time for hardware). The elevon must sustain an angle during flight meaning that the aerodynamic force acts on its surface another a common reason for failure in flying robots.
and will start a tech incubator focused on hardware. According to the NY Timesâ Mr. Rubin#s departure is part of a series of recent executive moves that seem to give Mr. Page more room to focus on the company#s longer-term bets#like robotics
Thus it was no surprise that Google participated in the recent $542 million B funding round for the start-up Magic Leap a Florida start-up thatâ claims to merge the physical and digital worlds with hardware
The rocket and general hardware is also at least partially covered and as stated on the press conference NASA
but before 3d printing one could only study the ontrolbecause changingâ the haperequired a machine shop. Â With 3d printing changing the body shape is easier. nother platform that is similar to Poppy in that it is both open source and 3d printed isâ Jimmy the Robot.
When asked about Poppy possible limitations Sandini says ne has to consider that robots like Poppy are rather simple in terms of mobility andâ sensing
the 3d printing and open source aspects of the project are part of that vision. To facilitate collaboration
and experimentation they have created an open source dedicated webâ platformâ that combines hardware software and webtools.
The advances offered by 3d printing have already revolutionised design and industry. However only very little has been done to explore the benefits of 3d printing and its interaction with computer science in classrooms.
With our Poppy platform we are now offering schools and teachers an adequate tool to cultivate the creativity of students studying in fields such as mechanics computer sciences electronics and 3d printing.
Both hardware and software are open source. There is not one single Poppy humanoid robot but as many as there are users.
This makes it very attractive as it has grown from a purely technological tool to a real social platform a
In our laboratory we develop various types of high-speed vision hardware and algorithms that can implement high-speed image processing with a sampling time from 10ms up to 1ms.
This relegates the processor speaker and microphone to the user smartphone drastically cutting the cost of production.
and research developer of Openbci a low-cost open-source hardware platform that records the brain#s electrical signals and uses devices and software languages to make the data easily accessible.
Russomanno and cofounder Joel Murphy aim to accelerate the advancement of BCI through collaborative hardware and software development.
In reality however in the current state mind controlled robots at least using Openbci translates to looking at a flashing screen
and helping him train for the All Star Games through a sequence of animated storybooks that play on a screen in his belly.
Joel Schwartz Hardware Engineer: Previouslyâ building rehabilitative toys for kids with cerebral palsy. Happiest in a machine shop with a well-made spreadsheet or fly fishing.
and hardware that are now driving new possibilities for consumer readiness and adoption of personal robotics.#
Instead of requiring expensive custom onboard computing robots are now able to leverage hardware smartphones and cloud computing for processing and storage.
Nagpal#s team overcame this challenge by implementing strategies that allowed robots to rely on their neighbours to cooperatively monitor for faults.
After years of research in this area it looks like we are finally reaching a tipping point where both hardware
#In order to take a leap forward in making our domestic robot industry a major industry it#s essential to expand robot demand based on the business service models of other industries with a secure core technology.
and DVD remote control which can be used to drive the robot by remote control. Two or more Edisons can communicate via infrared light
and has the hardware capabilities to organize into complex shapes with its neighbors due to accurate range and bearing.
however and omnidirectional motion using three motors has been thought to be only possible by carefully synchronizing all motors phases#something close to impossible with cheap hardware.
The team behind the Roombots have had to overcome a series of research challenges in terms of hardware and control.
and monitor health blood pressure or sugar levels for example. They also allow the persons caregivers to monitor their wellbeing remotely and to check for falls.
A robot moves around the home and allows family friends and carers to virtually visit the person.
Moving a mouse is something that most of us take for granted but an individual with locked-in syndrome that is fully awake and conscious has no other means of producing speech move limbs
but revolutionary hardware designed by engineers like Bacher have also been key. Bacher began working on the Braingate technology by conducting brain-machine interface research on nonhuman primates.
#Human computer interface technology is limited still largely to touch keyboard and mouse. The research conducted by Bacher
Says Bacher#clearly a mouse and a keyboard even today seems like an antiquated way to interact with technology.
We#ve seen developments like touch-screen technology and voice-control come along way but it#s still not mainstream.
The most defining feature of the system on display at the company showroom in Yokohama is its 3-dimensional use of space. his is tiered a 5 cultivation system.
if playing music was as simple at looking at your laptop screen. Now it is thanks to Kenneth Camilleri
The user can control the music player simply by looking at a series of flickering boxes on a computer screen.
As the user looks at the boxes on the screen the computer program is able to figure out the commands allowing the music player to be controlled without the need of any physical movement.
This means that even an individual with complete body paralysis can still move their eyes over images on a screen.
Packbotâ#other attributes include a state-of-the-art GPS video image display system monitoring electronic compass temperature sensors.
The robot is manipulated with an integrated Pentium-based computer e
#Microsoft pays 5m CHF to ETHZ and EPFL for research on flying robots and new memory architectures ETH Zurich and EPFL are jointly entering into a new research partnership with Microsoft Research.
Determining the required hardware specs. Specs and hardware designgiven the required velocities and torques determined above it was clear that the momentum wheel motor
and gearbox would be a major challenge for creating the robot. Using the mathematical model allowed to systematically tackle this problem by allowing a quantitative analysis of the trade-offs between higher velocities
This mathematics-driven hardware design resulted in detailed specs for the robot core hardware components (momentum wheels motors gears
After the workflow has been designed customer-specific hardware components would be printed 3d and installed on the standardized robot grippers.
â##I feel with robotics itâ#a green fieldâ#he said. â##Weâ##re building hardware weâ##re building software.
if the timing is correct the braking energy of one axis can be used as energy for another in the same way as a regenerative braking system reducing energy usage. his system is used currently in the automotive chip-making printing and food industries.
Using 3d printing offers vast benefits to the project because the user can select any colour it easy to switch from a right hand to a left hand
#Researchers use single joystick to control swarm of RC robots What can you do with 12 RC robots all slaved to the same joystick remote control?
Common sense might say you need 11 more remotes but our video demonstrates you can steer all the robots to any desired final position by using an algorithm we designed.
each time the joystick tells the robots to turn every robot turns a slightly different amount due to random wheel slip.
We can then either drive the robots around with a simple joystick or let a computer apply the control.
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.
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.
#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
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.
Brooks vision was to have a hardware platform frequently enhanced with new software and capabilities#and it is happening as promised and on schedule.
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
"The actors are filmed against a green screen, and the background, created by the studio's graphic designers,
nor do their names appear on the screen.""They never state that they are the instructor,
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:"
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 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
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,
Walmart plans to use drones from DJI to monitor inventories outside their warehouses, deliver packages to customers, many of
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,
The signal can be accessed using 3g, Wi-fi or a USB connection on a computer. The scientists, who started working on FRED
and implanted two per mouse. The implant--which used immune cells as bait--also contained a scanner to detect the presence of trapped cells."
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.
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.
the resulting chips have the potential to run at 50 to 100 times the speed of today computer processors f
Moving forward with 4-D printing Another active area of investigation for the lab is-D printing,
After demonstrating the 4-D printing concept, the lab soon found itself pursuing a number of intriguing applications with several companies.
Commercializing collaborations Self-Assembly Lab researchers may have certain applications in mind as they develop new concepts such as 4-D printing.
#Silicon photonics meets the foundry Advances in microprocessors have transferred the computation bottleneck away from CPUS to better communications between components.
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,
Ram lab aims to overcome major hurdles in integrating optical interconnection for microprocessors within existing manufacturing systems. typical microprocessor fab costs between 1 and 3 billion dollars,
Ram says. Making material progressover time, new materials and devices will provide far more powerful integration of photonics on silicon.
The work suggests that engineers will be able to reach the next stage of materials design through fundamental control of a protein final assembled structure. atriarch could very well be the core of a new molecular design process,
Simultaneously, the cost of 3-D printers has fallen sufficiently to make them household consumer items.
Now a team of MIT researchers has opened up a new frontier in 3-D printing:
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;
Like other 3-D printers now on the market, the device can print designs created in a computer-assisted design program,
far higher than the temperatures used for other 3-D printing. The stream of glowing molten glass from the nozzle resembles honey as it coils onto a platform,
Klein says the printing system is an example of multidisciplinary work facilitated by MIT flexible departmental boundaries in this case
the device then monitors how these reflections vary as someone moves in the environment and intelligently stitches the person reflections across time to reconstruct his silhouette into a single image.
Preventing kinase over-activity The'Phosphosense'technology screens compounds for use in drugs and has produced a new way of detecting the activity of enzymes called kinases.
#Insights into potential substitutes for costly platinum in fuel cell catalysts Replacing inefficient and polluting combustion engines with fuel cells is not currently feasible
because the cells require platinum-based catalysts. The PNNL study shows how to create particles with a similar reactivity to platinum that replace some of the platinum with Earth-abundant metals.
It may be used to create alloy nanomaterials for solar cells, heterogeneous catalysts for a variety of chemical reactions, and energy storage devices."
"The researchers are now exploring different metal combinations with various platinum ratios to get the desired characteristics for fuel cell catalysts.
and are enabling new technologies like flexible displays in mobile phone, wearable electronics, and the Internet of things (Iots).
#Shape changing display could spell the end for the 2d graph Imagine your computer screen could change shape.
Imagine if that screen could spring to life at the touch of a fingertip, translating numbers and trends into shapes
Researchers have developed a 3d prototype display which brings data to life in just this way sounding the death knell for the two dimensional bar chart.
which translates data into a three dimensional display. The interactive grid of 100 moving columns enables people to understand
The 3d display is radically different to interacting with data on a flat screen. A month's sales figures for example spring to life
Lancaster hosts a world-leading Human computer interaction research lab, developing the kind of shape changing displays which could one day make it into our homes, offices and perhaps even our mobile phones.
But for these shape-changing displays to be effective, researchers and developers first need to understand how people interact with them.
This tactile platform allows us to use those inherent skills to examine datasets normally confined to flat 2d displays."
if every pixel on your screen could move? Imagine the possibilities. Our lab works to develop new devices that merge the physical and digital worlds
and less than 1%each year had hardware problems. Inverter failures and fuse failures were reported more commonly than panel failure.
so a computerized ATLAS hardware"trigger system"grabs the data, makes a fast evaluation, decides if it might hold something of interest to physicists,
"This trigger hardware system makes measurements but they are very crude, fast and primitive.""To further pare down the data,
helped develop software to monitor the performance of the trigger systems'thousands of computer processors."
Professor Shu Kobayashi's group at the Graduate school of Science has developed highly active immobilized catalysts (heterogeneous catalysts)
and demonstrated simple and highly efficient synthesis of (R)- and (S)- rolipram by an eight-step continuous flow reaction using multiple column reactors containing the immobilized catalysts.
Professor Kobayashi's application of flow chemistry techniques to the production of fine chemicals using heterogeneous catalysts has resulted in simple method to synthesize (R)
and without purification of products from catalysts. Professor Kobayashi says"This new technology can be applied to not only other gamma aminobutyric-acids acids and medicines but also various chemicals such as flavors, agricultural chemicals,
"The core transcription machinery of RNA polymerase copies the information found in DNA genes onto MESSENGER RNA molecules that then govern the production of proteins.
Pau Fonseca indicates that the software consists of a core made up of a motor referred to as SDLPS that enables simulations to be carried out from complete representations of the models using languages such as SDL
"This core can be executed in a computer or be combined in a distributed way in a cluster, speeding up the extraction of results"."
The technology, using a large screen to enhance the sense of reality and interactive avatars, synchronises the different realities so they all coordinate as one.
receivers and other hardware used to implement it. According to Vadim Makarov of the University of Waterloo and colleagues, many scientists assume that
so that it misses the core of three of the four fibres leading to Bob's polarization detectors.
says this idea of actively damaging QKD components was"not previously on the radar screen"of scientists working on quantum-communication technologies.
the development of QKD is"always a cat and mouse game
#China Stocks Extend Slide Amid Warning of Severe Trade Pressure Shanghai/Beijing: Chinese stock markets tumbled for a second straight day on Wednesday as investors crowded the exits,
"said Davish Jain, chairman of the Soybean Processors Association of India.""Our oilseed and edible oil production will not rise
The former have a shell that is bonded directly to the core, but yolk-shell particles feature a void between the two equivalent to where the white of an egg would be.
the aluminum core continuously shrinks to become a 30-nm-across olk, which shows that small ions can get through the shell.
The finding suggests that quasarshe brilliant cores of active galaxies may commonly host two central supermassive black holes,
Like a pair of whirling skaters, the black-hole duo generates tremendous amounts of energy that makes the core of the host galaxy outshine the glow of its population of billions of stars
Applications of these devices include advanced microscopes, displays, sensors, and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same techniques used to manufacture computer microchips. hese flat lenses will help us to make more compact and robust imaging assemblies,
Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras and displays;
#New Technique Could Enable Chips with Thousands of Cores Researchers from MIT have unveiled the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence in more than three decades,
a memory-management scheme that could help enable chips with thousands of cores. In a modern, multicore chip, every core or processor has its own small memory cache, where it stores frequently used data.
But the chip also has shared a larger cache, which all the cores can access. If one core tries to update data in the shared cache,
other cores working on the same data need to know. So the shared cache keeps a directory
of which cores have copies of which data. That directory takes up a significant chunk of memory:
In a 64-core chip, it might be 12 percent of the shared cache. And that percentage will only increase with the core count.
Envisioned chips with 128,256, or even 1, 000 cores will need a more efficient way of maintaining cache coherence.
At the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques in October, MIT researchers unveil the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence in more than three decades.
Whereas with existing techniques, the directory memory allotment increases in direct proportion to the number of cores, with the new approach, it increases according to the logarithm of the number of cores.
In a 128-core chip that means that the new technique would require only one-third as much memory as its predecessor.
With Intel set to release a 72-core high-performance chip in the near future, that a more than hypothetical advantage.
But with a 256-core chip, the space savings rises to 80 percent, and with a 1, 000-core chip, 96 percent.
When multiple cores are simply reading data stored at the same location, there no problem.
Conflicts arise only when one of the cores needs to update the shared data. With a directory system, the chip looks up
which cores are working on that data and sends them messages invalidating their locally stored copies of it. irectories guarantee that
when a write happens, no stale copies of the data exist, says Xiangyao Yu, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper. fter this write happens,
no read to the previous version should happen. So this write is ordered after all the previous reads in physical-time order. ime travelwhat Yu and his thesis advisor Srini Devadas,
the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor in MIT Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science realized was that the physical-time order of distributed computations doesn really matter,
core A can keep working away on a piece of data that core B has provided since overwritten that the rest of the system treats core A work as having preceded core B. The ingenuity of Yu
and Devadasapproach is in finding a simple and efficient means of enforcing a global logical-time ordering. hat we do is we just assign time stamps to each operation,
With Yu and Devadassystem, each core has its own counter, and each data item in memory has associated an counter,
When a core reads a piece of data, it takes out a easeon it, meaning that it increments the data item counter to,
As long as the core internal counter doesn exceed 10, its copy of the data is valid. The particular numbers don matter much;
When a core needs to overwrite the data, however, it takes wnershipof it. Other cores can continue working on their locally stored copies of the data,
but if they want to extend their leases, they have to coordinate with the data item owner.
The core that doing the writing increments its internal counter to a value that higher than the last value of the data item counter.
Say, for instance, that cores A through D have all read the same data, setting their internal counters to 1
Core E needs to overwrite the data so it takes ownership of it and sets its internal counter to 11.
Its internal counter now designates it as operating at a later logical time than the other cores:
it will find it owned by core E, to which it sends a message. Core E writes the data back to the shared cache,
and core A reads it, incrementing its internal counter to 11 or higher. Unexplored potentialin addition to saving space in memory
Tardis also eliminates the need to broadcast invalidation messages to all the cores that are sharing a data item.
#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
Simultaneously, the cost of 3-D printers has fallen sufficiently to make them household consumer items.
Now a team of MIT researchers has opened up a new frontier in 3-D printing:
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;
From the discovery of core-forming process for bead-making in ancient Egypt, through the invention of the metal blow pipe during Roman times, to the modern industrial Pilkington process for making large-scale flat glass;
Like other 3-D printers now on the market, the device can print designs created in a computer-assisted design program,
far higher than the temperatures used for other 3-D printing. The stream of glowing molten glass from the nozzle resembles honey as it coils onto a platform,
Klein says the printing system is an example of multidisciplinary work facilitated by MIT flexible departmental boundaries in this case
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