Sensor swilling cattle can alleviate world hunger  Slip this Texas longhorn a sonar mickey, connect to big data,
and you could start feeding a lot more people. Â--One way to help address the world hunger crisis:
big data--and you can develop best agricultural practices around the world, getting the most out of your cattle as you learn how,
Sensor-managed garden goes'beyond organic 'And you thought it just took sunlight and soil to raise a tomato.
an open source hardware platform and sensors to precisely monitor and automatically manage the temperature, light and moisture inside a small domed garden.
Within it, the soil is separated into growing beds, with buried water sensors, and a earthwork propagation bin that actively distributes earthworms throughout the bed.
Sensors are used widely to monitor the conditions within high-value sensitive crops such as wine grapes.
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Small sensors can detect traces of explosives, using bee venomscientist have tried previously to engineer plants to detect bombs
MIT researchers created a carbon nanotube with a bee venom-based sensor, designed to detect traces of explosives.
and those derivatives could also be identified with this type of sensor. Because molecules in the environment are constantly changing into other chemicals,
we need sensor platforms that can detect the entire network and classes of chemicals, instead of just one type.
If the sensors make their way out of the lab and into the real world, they would be more sensitive than the spectrometry-based systems that are used currently to detect explosives in the air.
In the future, let's hope a single-molecule sensor can stop someone like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab A k a. the underwear bomber from slipping through security.
and drugs A cheap landmine detector made from ebay parts Sensor robots sense out environmental changes
the robots are comingon a windy morning in California's Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants.
Researchers are now designing robots for these most delicate crops by integrating advanced sensors, powerful computing, electronics, computer vision, robotic hardware and algorithms,
as well as networking and high precision GPS localization technologies. Most agrobots won't be commercially available for at least a few years.
Farmers say farm robots could provide relief from recent labor shortages, lessen the unknowns of immigration reform,
so the robots can come and alleviate some of that problem, "said Ron Yokota, a farming operations manager at Tanimura & Antle,
Another company, San diego-based Vision Robotics, is developing a similar lettuce thinner as well as a pruner for wine grapes.
The pruner uses robotic arms and cameras to photograph and create a computerized model of the vines,
whose movement is directed through an optical sensor; it allows the robot to make a choice based on fruit color, quality and size.
The berries are plucked and placed on a conveyor belt, where the fruit is packed by a worker.
Bionic beesengineers from the universities of Sheffield and Sussex are planning on scanning the brains of bees
and uploading them into autonomous flying robots that will then fly and act like the real thing.
Bionic bees--or perhaps that should be"beeonic"--could, it is hoped, be used for a range of situations where tiny thinking flying machines should be more useful than current technology,
with Nvidia providing some of its top-end graphics processors for the development team to work with.
"Not only will this pave the way for many future advances in autonomous flying robots, but we also believe the computer modelling techniques we will be using will be widely useful to other brain modelling and computational neuroscience projects".
"The prospect of a robotic animal that's as mentally capable as the thing it's trying to mimic might seem exciting,
Robotic Pollinators: who said industrial agriculture was doomed? Robotics engineers are buzzing about a machine with potentially transformative implications for agriculture, surveillance, and mapping:
the"robobee.""Researchers atâ Harvard School of engineering and Applied Sciencesâ plan to have mechanized the critters flapping though the air autonomously within the next three years, according to NPR.
 Each robobee will be equipped with sensors and cameras, instead of antennae and eyes, that will allow them to do everything from pollinating a field of crops to searching for survivors after a natural disaster.
Replacing the battery on a 3g or 3gs iphone for example will run about $50. The price tag for fixing the touch-screen on an iphone 3g is $70;
predicted the exponential rise of computing power. Someday history may remember drops in the cost of DNA synthesis as Carlson's curve.
Some incorporate rain sensors. But what if you want to check on or water your garden remotely?
We employed artificial intelligence algorithms combined with animal longevity assays to screen for wide-spectrum herbal extracts that extend lifespan;
The NMDA receptors help control memory and synaptic plasticity. Theanine may also have positive effects on serotonin levels to promote restful Sleep in rats,
Futurist Fixes 1. Non Human (Robotic) Transportation: The same drone technology that the U s. military is using in Afghanistan could be put to use in the United states to transport goods between locations safer and faster than human drivers.
This could potentially free up roadways for humans as robot drivers could take a different route,
as covered in the November-December 2009 issue of THE FUTURIST. The U s. military hopes to soon use drones for cargo transportation and refueling.
This is certainly a realistic hope according to Missy Cummings, director of the Humans and Automation Lab at MIT.
soldiers guarding borders may see an army of remotely controlled robots rushing toward them. Cummings reports that oeseveral U s. government agencies are seriously considering how to use unmanned vehicles in first strike or initial invasion settings.
we send in robots on the beach and let the robots take the fire, and then set up a logistics camp
so that Marines could go in. If a robot can launch an invasion, how long before they re delivering our goods and services automatically?
Check out clips: oebig Dog Robot, The Stanley self-driving car (originally covered in THE FUTURIST in May-June 2006.
irobot Packbot, covered in THE FUTURIST, March-April 2007.2. Air-powered Cars and trains: As we featured in THE FUTURIST, September-October 2008,
go-karts sporting air-powered engines whizzed around a racetrack in a test of mechanical engineering students prowess at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova scotia.
but conventional power sources such as batteries are too big and eventually lose charge. In the future, nanodevices could use zinc oxide nanowires that draw energy from vibrations such as from the flow of blood
the capsules would contain thousands of microscopic robots called nanorobots. These would be in the range of a billionth of a meter in size
They would be robotic in that they would be programmed to carry out complex and specific functions in three-dimensional space.
The gadolinium-powered robots would make sure that the person body was absorbing the energy safely and consistently.
Freitas has two other nanobot solutions. oenutribots floating through the bloodstream would allow people to eat virtually anything, a big fatty steak for instance,
A nanobot Dr. Freitas calls a oelipovore would act like a microscopic cosmetic surgeon, sucking fat cells out of your body and giving off heat,
Futurist Fixes 1. Telemedicine and Robotic Surgery. As originally covered in the FUTURIST: Allison Okamura of the Johns hopkins university Department of Mechanical engineering says the real potential of robotic surgery
or rather computer-enhanced surgery is to reduce the impact of surgeries (make them less invasive,
Haptic systems are a particularly promising area of research in the field of robotics. Haptics involve making robotic surgical instruments more sensitive to human touch and,
reciprocally, allowing robot tools to convey sensory tactile data to the doctors who wield them.
Okamura and her team have developed a haptic system that helps doctors view how much pressure their robotic instruments are applying to a given area.
This sort of research will enable surgeons to better perform minimally invasive surgeries. Surgical robots can also photograph,
survey and collect data in ways that humans cannot and give surgeons a better sense of how the operation went,
after the fact. oewhen you do assisted robot surgery, you re already tracking the tools that are inside the patient,
says Okamura. oeyou can have force-sensors and other ways of examining force, and then you re acquiring data at the same time that you re doing the procedure,
You can model tissue health based on the data you acquired during operation by the robot.
and heartbeat of the patient via sensors embedded in the catheter that had been inserted into the patient heart.
The device uses wireless sensors to constantly monitor patients and check environmental factors in the patients home
But, as geneticist and open-source medicine evangelist Andrew Hessel wrote in the January-February 2010 issue of THE FUTURIST, oethanks to rapidly moving technologies like synthetic biology,
It the ideal technical foundation for open-source biotechnology. Moreover synthetic biology drops the cost of doing bioengineering by several orders of magnitude.
since a company developing forest sensors that exploit this new power source. The UW team sought to further academic research in the field of tree power by building circuits to run off that energy.
enough to run low-power sensors. The UW circuit is built from parts measuring 130 nanometers and it consumes on average just 10 nanowatts of power during operation (a nanowatt is one billionth of a watt)."
and when turned on operates at 350 millivolts, about a quarter the voltage in an AA battery.
But the system could provide a low-cost option for powering tree sensors that might be used to detect environmental conditions or forest fires.
Battery cage battle Nearly all eggs in the United states come from large facilities where hens are kept in small pens called battery cages.
Animal welfare groups say chickens in battery cages are given not enough room to move or raise their wings.
In 2008, the groups collected enough signatures for a California state ballot initiative to ban the battery cages.
The birds get twice as much space as in the old battery cages. And the enriched cages have perches,
Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care and food distribution.
sometimes called the Internet of things or the Industrial Internet. Yet it takes time for the economics
The role of sensors once costly and clunky, now inexpensive and tiny was described this month in an essay in The New york times by Larry Smarr, founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information technology;
he said the ultimate goal was oethe sensor-aware planetary computer. That may sound like blue-sky futurism,
combining sensors, machine learning and Web technology. It senses not just air temperature, but the movements of people in a house, their comings and goings,
Across many industries, products and practices are being transformed by communicating sensors and computing intelligence. The smart industrial gear includes jet engines,
Computers track sensor data on operating performance of a jet engine, or slight structural changes in an oil rig, looking for telltale patterns that signal coming trouble.
SENSORS on fruit and vegetable cartons can track location and sniff the produce warning in advance of spoilage,
Computers pull GPS data from railway locomotives, taking into account the weight and length of trains, the terrain and turns,
More Robots, Less Farmers Company Installs 12, 500th Robotic Cow Milking Systema decreasing number of farmers are getting their hands dirty,
lest they gunk up their smartphone. Dutch maker of farming technologies, Lely, recently installed their 12,
500th cow-milking robot. That means that hundreds of thousands of cows all over the world are producing tens of millions of liters of milk per day at the pumps of robots rather than the hands of farmers.
If you re not familiar with Lely Astronaut A4 robotic milking system, it essentially a boxed area that the cows walk into and are milked at their leisure.
The cow just walks into the milking station 3d cameras target their teats with a teat detection system,
and robotic barn cleaners. To meet increasing demand from customers in North america they ve built a US headquarters in Pella,
From GPS-guided tractors to fleets of weed-clearing robots, technology continues to change the meaning of a day work on the farm.
Hacking a building offers speed to market, which can translate to more cost effective and less risky projects because it is quicker to convert an existing building than to design,
shared data centers or stadium-sized recreational facilities that can be shared by tenants and the public. oethe building owner can perform hacks as incentives for existing tenants to remain,
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