Simultaneously, light from the green end of the solar spectrum triggers the br protein to begin pumping protons along its membrane.
which will enhance their combat capability. Other potential military applications include electronics for remote sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles and high-capacity computing in remote operations.
New'T-ray'tech converts light to sound for weapons detection medical imaging More information: Sensitive Room-temperature Terahertz Detection via Photothermoelectric Effect in Graphene Xinghan Cai et al.
including a vaccine that will fight animal flu and one that will help people with nicotine addiction.
Surgical removal is one of the main weapons doctors have to treat brain tumors. The problem is that currently there's no way to know
Berkeley, could soon give bomb-sniffing dogs some serious competition. A team of researchers led by Xiang Zhang,
"The new sensor could have many advantages over current bomb-screening methods.""Bomb-sniffing dogs are expensive to train
when not connected to detonators. It is the explosive found in Richard Reid's shoe bomb in 2001 and Umar Farouk Abdulmtallab's underwear bomb in 2009.
U s. Attorney general Eric holder Jr. was quoted recently in news reports as having"extreme extreme concern"about Yemeni bomb makers joining forces with Syrian militants to develop these hard-to-detect bombs,
which can be hidden in cell phones and mobile devices.""PETN has more nitro functional groups and is more electron deficient than the DNT we detected in our experiments,
Fortunately researchers have pinpointed now the breaking mechanism of several monolayer materials hundreds of times stronger than steel with exotic properties that could revolutionize everything from armor to electronics.
and long-term vibration and is suitable for coating internal components such as apertures baffles cold shields and Micro Electro Mechanical systems (MEMS)- type optical sensors.
Hypervelocity impact tests are used mostly to simulate the impact of different projectiles on shields spacecraft
Scientists shoot carbon nanotubes out of high-speed gun (w/video) More information: Unzipping Carbon nanotubes at High Impact.
Like tiny submarines these versatile nanocarriers can navigate in the watery environment surrounding cells and transport their guest molecules through the membrane of living cells to sequentially deliver their cargo.
#Scientists shoot carbon nanotubes out of high-speed gun (w/video)( Phys. org) What happens when you shoot multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTS) out of a gun onto an aluminum target at a velocity of more than 15000 mph?
Scientists finally have the answer. If a nanotube reaches the target at a 90â°angle (head-on) it will break
It could change everything from the production of cell phones and televisions to counterfeit-proof money, improved solar energy systems or quick identification of troops in combat.
or an enemy tank in combat that lacks the proper coding. In this study researchers worked with lead selenide nanoparticles,
Nanosponge decoy fights superbug infections More information: Paper: Bio-inspired detoxification using 3d-printed hydrogel nanocomposites www. nature. com/ncomms/2014/140full/ncomms4774. htm h
#Remote Bomb Detector Uses Sound waves To Distinguish Between Types Of Explosives#A new type of bomb detection can sniff out how powerful an explosive#is from afar.
and a sonic beam to identify how the bomb's casing vibrates. From the patterns of the vibrations the researchers can tell
I am sure a great many Popsci readers are thinking this at the same time I'm typing it Attachã this to a drone for remote scouting in 3d!
And to keep the weight down for processing this data the data could just be beam back to the drone remote site to be processed there.
considering allowing a company to sell genetically modified salmon that would be farmed in inland tanks.)
Sabre has the unique ability to use oxygen in the air rather than from external liquid-oxygen tanks like those on the space shuttle Strapped to a spacecraft engines of this breed would eliminate the need for expendable boosters
When air strikes an engine at five times the speed of sound it can heat up to nearly 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.
4. If LOX is an oxidiser for at least part of the flight where is the tank?
Besides there will be no external tank for debris to shed from and hit this vehicle. I read that they had a breakthrough in developing materials for the engines to enable them to survive the intense heat
We dont need a new suborbital launch system for spy satellites or a taxi service to the ISS.
Police force will be replaced with drone copters that taze you and fly off to prisons without hallways
It is an amazing read on the battle of Humanity Vs. Technology. Very real. He talks about something I am paraphrasing (more deadly than nuclear chemical or biological war.
Something that hides right in front of us mans need for bigger better and faster. I highly recommend this read:
#Sewer Sensors Detect Homemade Bombs As They're Being made Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop?
A European union-funded research project spearheaded by the Swedish Defense research agency FOI aims to sniff out the telltale signs of bomb-making through the sewer system.
while different sensors above the ground monitor for elevated amounts of gas byproducts of the bomb-making process in the area.
and nobody thinks there's going to be a silver bullet that normalizes cognition Reeves said in a statement.
#How David Schmale Tracks Airborne Microbes With Drones Each year Popular Science seeks out the brightest young scientists and engineers and names them the Brilliant Ten.
An associate professor of food safety and plant biosecurity at Virgina Tech Schmale sends drones armed with petri dishes into the atmosphere to capture airborne crop pathogens.
so he'll be sending his drones into them to collect samples. If clouds provide a longer-term reservoir of bacteria
The gun slingers sneaking booze in? yet it is many factors of scale larger than the deaths with MJ...
More proof that the war on drugs is a wasteful fallacy. Absolute BS. I don't know where they got these statistics but
#Navy Demonstrates Swarm Of Armed Robot Boats Call them sea drones dronaughts or roboats the Navy demonstrated a swarm of remotely-controlled boats on the James river In virginia this August.
As if animated by the same mind the13 patrol boats all moved in unison their crewless decks painting a picture of
what warfare may soon become. The project by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) wants to save both lives
while the robot ships had the ability to move on their own there is always a human in the loop before the robot boats fire their weapons.
and ONR said they were armed with a variety of weapons--from. 50 caliber machine guns to high-powered microwave weapons.
Multiple times during the media call Klunder and Brizzolara mentioned Al qaeda s suicide bombing attack on the destroyer USS Cole in October 2000.
As the Cole refueled at a Yemeni port a small foreign craft approached the side of the destroyer
Klunder didn't specify how the robotic patrol boats would have saved the Cole but it's possible that an unmanned robot boat could intercept a vessel full of suicide bombers.
Then the robot could either disable the attacking vehicle or cause any explosions to detonate prematurely with no American lives lost.
while people might not accept CARACAS on a destroyer soon the technology would work for merchant vessels and larger ships.
First patrol boats then the high seas s
#The Quest To Harness Wind energy At 2, 000 Feet To be more precise it's a stabilizing fin part of a tube-shaped robotic airship designed to tap the power of high-altitude winds.
When you launch a missile from a submarine its launch characteristics are going to be perturbed by the gravity field Sandwell explains.
It s going to affect the initial takeoff angle of the missile so you have to correct for that.
#Facebook Says Wi-fi Drones Will be sized Jumbo jet If a new Facebook plan is successful the easiest way to access the cloud may be...
Facebook wants to spread Wi-fi Internet to unconnected parts of the world with drones and at#a summit in New york earlier this week the company revealed those drones will be the size of jumbo jets.
In March of 2014 Facebook acquired drone maker Ascenta whose solar-powered drones could potentially#remain airborne at 65000 feet for months or years at a time.
Ascenta's web page has disappeared since the acquisition leaving only a goodbye notice in Facebook-blue.#
#To make this project fly Facebook plans on testing one of the drones over American skies by 2015 hoping to#have the project off the ground in three to five years.
While bringing Internet connectivity to unconnected parts of the world should be a good enough move for public relations Facebook also joined the ongoing war against calling unmanned aircraft drones:
#Snake Robots And A Quadcopter Fuse Together In this Chimera Drone Rescue robots are better when they travel in packs.
Quadcopter drones can quickly fly over and around obstacles but once on the ground they can t too much besides take off again.
A new chimera-like creation from the Modular Robotics Lab at the University of Pennsylvania combines two snakebots and one quadcopter into a sort of drone superorganism bringing rescue robots together
The drone#is designed explicitly as an alternative to stronger heavier robots that use force to power over rubble.
Roboticist Stella Latscha led the team of researchers that presented the drone last week at the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
#U s army Wants A Parachuting Tank After years of service in wars--from Iraq to Afghanistan to Iraq again--the Humvee is on its way out.
The first vehicle is in essence a light tank. Creatively titled Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) it s an armored vehicle that can be dropped from cargo planes.
The United states hasn't had a light parachutable tank since they retired the M551 Sheridan in 1996 and even then its performance was underwhelming;
armor light enough to drop isn t very protective. Earlier attempts at flying tanks proved less effective.
The next vehicles is the ultra-lightweight combat vehicle (ULCV. The ULCV is in essence a turbo jeep.
It will carry a full nine person infantry squad along with their equipment up to 3200 pounds total.
While the current solicitation for the ULCV doesn't specify it a previous solicitation wanted the vehicle to to incorporate a medium caliber weapon into squad operations.
In essence the ULCV should get a squad into the fight right off the helicopter over unpaved ground
and with a big gun onboard to help them out. Lastly the Army is also looking at a light reconnaissance vehicle (LRV) also carried by Chinook helicopters both inside and underneath.
and engaging hardened enemy bunkers light armored vehicles and dismounted personnel in machine gun and sniper positions.
In addition to seeking out threats like that the LRV as requested will go farther than current Humvees protect against some blasts work in all weather and with degraded visibility and defeat outdated tanks.
what the Army can do early on in a war with the light tanks protecting the landing zone the combat vehicle carrying soldiers to the fight
across Australia's Outback in the new Michelin Cruiser Class. Practicality was paramount for these entries
The unusual shape was a compromise between aerodynamics and comfort for at least two people as required by the cruiser class specifications.
Researchers have thought about using spider silk for everything from surgical thread to bulletproof vests. There's no reason to make a cute scarf from spider silk of course
#Pentagon Wants Artificial intelligence In Future Fighters The Department of defense wants future generations of fighter aircraft to come with copilots already installed.
According to#the U s. Naval Institute both the Navy and the Air force want their next generation air superiority fighter to have Artificial intelligence.
The F-X is a fighter concept in development to replace the Air force s current top dog#the stealthy F-22 Raptor
Adding AI could free the pilot's mind to focus more on fewer tasks giving them a cognitive advantage in battle.
Boeing s Phantom Works are developing the F/A-XX Advanced Navy Strike Fighter to replace their own F/A-18 Super hornet
The Navy s own X-47b experimental drone has landed on an aircraft carrier successfully and autonomously so adding a computer copilot to a naval craft could help there too.
Bringing the artificial intelligence inside the cockpit is one major way robots will fly alongside humans in fighters of the future--but it s not the only one.
#Google Already Testing Delivery Robots In Australia In rural Australia a drone delivers dog treats to a farmer.
The robot is a proof of concept part of#Project Wing by Google X. The program is designed to show that delivery drones are possible
The drone is a tail-sitter taking off vertically with its body perpendicular to the ground.
For the drone it works fine and the design lets the wing fly fast like a plane.
It also means the drone can hover and that s where the delivery mechanism of Project Wing shines:
With the prototype in place the next challenge is creating an infrastructure for drones so that they can travel safely through skies without hitting other vehicles.
While the FAA clearly wants drones to sense and avoid other aircraft its been slow to implement changes
If the drone industry wants to change the world it ll need an FAA that lets it deliver.
Watch the drone in action below and read more about Project Wing at The Atlantic a
and built on the Bullet Physics engine a game physics simulator. They are also developing a low-cost easy-to-use tensegrity robotics kits to make it easy for people to put together new tensegrity robots for students
#Autonomous X-47b Flies In Formation With Fighter aircraft If the latest tests are any indication humans
Yesterday the U s. Navy announced the first successful manned & unmanned aircraft flight operations of its experimental X-47b drone.
and an operator on the deck steered the drone aside while#the Hornet landed on the same deck.
Unlike most drones which have a pilot dictating their every move#by remote control the X-47b is largely autonomous calculating its flight paths.
#South africa's New AHRLAC Fighter Is A Drone Alternative Powered by a pusher propeller, covered in pixel camouflage,
the Advanced High performance Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft (AHRLAC) looks like an alternate history version of a World war i fighter.
drones. The AHRLAC is designed for flexible roles, depending on how it's equipped. These range from surveillance to light attack,
which could make it a useful tool for border patrol, some forms of counterinsurgency warfare, and, perhaps most relevantly, anti-poaching activities.
Pusher propellers were used also on the infamous Predator drone. AHRLAC's maximum speed is about 310 mph,
and some missiles. The manufacturers boast that AHRLAC is the"first ever aircraft to be designed fully
#Russia Orders Helicopters For Its New Amphibious assault Ships Russia recently ordered a batch of new attack helicopters,
including 32 that could go onto a new amphibious assault ship. There's just one hitch: France is building that ship,
or (in wars) go forth and take the beaches. The contract with French shipbuilders specified two Mistral class ships built in France,
They'll be the first amphibious assault ships for Russia. It's likely each of the four ships would only fly eight attack helicopters so the full order for 32 indicates that Russia expects full delivery of the ships.
what military use the Mistral would add to the war in Ukraine, even with the planned Ka-52k helicopters.
"this chopper is primarily an antitank weapon, and is limited to less than 300 miles of range.
If Russia were to escalate its involvement in Ukraine's war from supporting separatists to formal participation,
should tensions like the 2008 Russia-Georgia war flare up again. Presently, the Mistral-class ships wouldn't let Russia do all that much more in the wars it's most likely to fight,
as Russia shares land borders with the neighbors they're most prone to invade. Regardless of actual military utility, the international community is excited less about the sale, especially after Russia's seizure of Crimea and Moscow's ongoing support for the separatists that shot down a Malaysian airliner.
The"fourth battlefield"paceontains a lot of stuff that's worth protecting, and Japan is hardly the first military to consider it.
American nuclear submarines, hiding out at sea, used geo-locating satellites to calculate target trajectories, so that they could reliably hit the same points on earth from anywhere.
Even as American troopers started fighting in Afghanistan, the Department of defense was floating ideas about"Space Control"to make sure that nothing in space threatened the important American satellites already there.
"This allows Japan the possibility of defensive military action in space, where before the country was limited by previous law and their constitution's intensely pacifistic Article 9. While On earth,
it's unlikely that a new space force means we'll see Japanese war satellites anytime soon.
and testing weapons in space s
#Solar Sponge Efficiently Makes Steam Generating steam is enormously useful. Much of the world's energy actually comes from steam-coal power plants heat up water to produce water vapor,
The food goes into oxygen-free tanks with particular bacteria species inside that thrive without oxygen.
#Ground Drone Project: Urban mobile robot chassis The Ground Drone Project wants to make a low cost ground robot chassis for hobbyists
and inventors that is capable of traversing challenging obstacles. The project#s original articulated traction control design offers a unique approach to obstacle traversal.
One solution to overcomeâ these constraints is the use of marine drones autonomous surfaceâ orâ underwater vehicles capable of traversing great distances and operatingâ independently for prolonged periods of time.
The latest project to take advantage of the benefits of marine drones theâ Robotic Exploration of Ocean Fronts by The british National Oceanographic Centreâ (NOC) is one of largest and most ambitious unmanned
At the beginning of October a fleet of seven marine drones were launched from the Isles of Scilly for a three-week journey across the ocean.
Phase one sees a fleet of seven marine drones being launched from a beach on the Isles of Scilly to travel up to 300 miles to the shelf edge and back.
#Projector Drone: Could drones broadcast the news? As a Board member of the Professional society of Drone Journalists and part of the team at both I-Drone
and SWARM UAV I am lucky enough to work in the growing civilian UAV industry everyday.
The Projector Droneâ that we have built in Melbourne Australia is one of my favorite in-house projects.
It has provided a great opportunity to explore the role of drones beyond#eye-in the sky#applications.
In short our#Projector Drone#does not record the world around it. It broadcasts onto it. http://player. vimeo. com/video/98604521our proof of concept build uses a modified DJI F550 Flamewheel kit gets twelve minutes flight time and features its own
@i-drone. com. auwritten by Ryan Hamlet for the Professional society of Drone Journalism n
#Global trends in robotics from patent analysis 120000 robotics patents have been published in the last 10 years tripling in rate from 2004 to 2013 according to the UK Intellectual Property Office Informatics Team.
Autonomous cars and drones are other examples of robots. The project is launched at theâ AUTOMATICA 2014â conference in Munich.
the nerves that trigger muscular movement in the eyes and the way that the brain processes vision.
#Packbot: Serving the Military and World cup Football Packbots will be deployed in Brazil during the 2014â World cup Soccerâ season to bring a high-tech approach to security.
The nationâ#government has secured a $7. 2 million deal with Packbotâ#creators for 30 of the military bots.
The sleek Packbot robot system designed by irobot a Bedford Massachusetts-based company made its debut in 2002 in Afghanistan where it helped soldiers clear bunkers caves collapsed building and to cross minefields.
The versatile machine was used again in 2003 in Iraq in urban warfare situations and to search vehicles.
By 2007 more than 800 of these military robots were in use throughout Afghanistan Iraq and several other countries.
The Packbot was also the first remote controlled robot to enter the Fukushima nuclear facility after the East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Packbot is a unique robotic propulsion system that can reach a road speed of up to 9 miles/hour.
Packbot has the capability to climb up to 60 percent grades and survive submersion in water up to two meters depth.
DHL and microdrones are testing drones that could be used to deliver urgently needed goods to hard-to-reach places eg medicines to remote sites.
#Amazon announces plans for drone delivery service, says safety will be key priority Amazon announced yesterday that it is developing a drone delivery service called Prime Air that will aim to get packages into customer hands within 30 minutes.
They are planning to launch as soon as FAA regulations are lifted as early as 2015. Amazon states that safety will be their top priority.
Australian startup Zookal is making news today with their claims to be the worldâ#first drone delivery company.
But while you can quibble over who is really the first commercial drone delivery company
They use drones for delivery and marketing. They are not a drone or robot company.
And thatâ#good! Zookal is a textbook rental startup that also provides a digital note platform and internships for international students.
Zookal are using drones developed by the University of Sydney engineering students and technically Flirtey is the actual drone startup.
Or possibly Vimbra who are managing the logistics partnerships ie between Zookal and Flirtey. However they all have cofounder Ahmed Haider in common.
Textbooks are a great test bed for drone logistics as they are robust reasonably expensive and in demand unlike tacos
and other e-commerce will be much more viable. â#Drones are the first robots to become an off the shelf technology that is wide open for diverse uses with drone delivery
Drones are the gateway for consumer robotics where the robot is a tool that anyone can use.
Flirtey are working in partnership with The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering a nonprofit research institute to develop a set of guidelines for the use of commercial drones. â##We hope to use this guide as a way to work through safety privacy and community concerns locally
This is especially true for a ship#s ballast tanks which are filled with seawater to compensate for weight changes as cargo is loaded and unloaded.
and stiffeners separated by bulkheads ballast tanks form much of a ship#s supporting structure. The surface of ballast tanks is subject to saltwater exposure
and algae accumulation and as a result must be inspected for damage every five years. A standard visual inspection which can only be conducted with the ship in dry-dock after about a two-day venting period serves as a kind of triage for determining
As part of a round-the-year continuous inspection the ship owner decides to use a four-day cruise to inspect part of the ballast tank.
and can model robots including roombas tanks and cars. It has two inputs: forward speed and turning rate.
Some issues prove to be particularly controversial such as the use of robots in warfare or for the care of children or the elderly.
and security context may be useful to assess what UK citizens are comfortable with ranging from troop support in areas such as minesweeping to remote surveillance to fully armed drones.
#Two small drones approved by FAA for civilian use in the US Two small drones Insitu Scan Eagle X200
Both drones have fixed wings weigh less than 55 pounds each and have wingspans of less than 10 feet
Labor saving devices like these new robotic devices are seen as helping fight an inability to secure workers. â##There arenâ##t enough workers to take the available jobs so the robots can come
In Cambodia where unexploded land mines from previous wars remain LIDAR mapping is particularly helpful. Interesting video g
Part  of a session called hose Flying Things (which also features the work of drone ecologist Lian Pin Koh airborne logistics activist Andreas Raptopoulos
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 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.
Drone is uniquely suitable for this purpose because: It is widely available to the public,
and (on the Parrot AR drone 2. 0) a pressuremeter and magnetometer. Further, it already uses these sensors to achieve accurate onboard state estimation
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.
Drone is delivered with a marker that is recognized in the images by the onboard firmware. The recognition gives an image position (x, y) and a distance to the marker.
Note, however, that this information is not enough to disambiguate both the position and orientation of the drone with respect to the marker.
because the drone is located on the right of the marker. In the luecase, the marker is in the left part of the image,
because the drone has turned to the right. Note that the distances to the marker are the same.
we perform state estimation on the basis of the drone estimates of its height, speeds, angles,
The heading is estimated quite well on board the drone, where the Parrot AR. Drone 2 also uses a magnetometer.
Figure 2 shows what computational processes are happening on which device during the game. The marker detection and the estimation of the drone attitude, height,
and speeds are performed by the firmware on board the drone. The app is running the drone control interface,
sending and receiving data from the drone, performing state estimation (X y z) with respect to the marker and rendering the 3d world.
Of course, for the experiment we also need to process the drone onboard images. Because of the iphone computational constraints, we decided to save 5 subsequent images
while the player is trying to dock and to process the images after the flight.
This processing now happens when the player visits the highscore table and agrees to join the experiment.
For example, if an ipad or ipod is connected to the drone Wifi, it cannot send its data.
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