Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - An ultra-low power hybrid chip inspired by the brain could help give palm-sized robots the ability to collaborate and learn from their experiences. Combined with new generations of low-power motors and sensors, the new application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) - which operates on milliwatts of power - could help intelligent swarm robots operate for hours instead of minutes.
To conserve power, the chips use a hybrid digital-analog time-domain processor in... Читать дальше...
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - What do pizza slices, sea slugs and one possible design for future soft-bodied robots have in common? They all have frilly surfaces, and new insights about the surprising geometry of frilly surfaces may help a future generation of energy-efficient and extremely flexible soft-body robots move.
The complex folds of a frilly surface like coral reefs or kale leaves is a surface mathematicians refer to as an "inflected nonsmooth surface." It changes the direction in which it bends. Читать дальше...
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - Researchers have harnessed the latest nanofabrication techniques to create bug-shaped robots that are wirelessly powered, able to walk, able to survive harsh environments and tiny enough to be injected through an ordinary hypodermic needle.
"When I was a kid, I remember looking in a microscope, and seeing all this crazy stuff going on. Now we're building stuff that's active at that size. We don't just have to watch this world. You can actually play in it," said Marc Miskin... Читать дальше...
Paris (ESA) Mar 12, 2019 - Space is profitable - each euro spent on the International Space Station produces 1.8 euros added value to European economies.
Research in low Earth orbit has already contributed to the economy in health and material sciences.
Читать дальше...Austin (AFP) March 12, 2019 - They may never be able to fill a stadium for a rock concert, but computers are making inroads in the music industry, capable of producing songs -- and convincingly so -- as illustrated at the South by Southwest festival in Texas.
Already, an album featuring eight tracks has been produced entirely with artificial intelligence, an unprecedented feat.
Читать дальше...SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio – An Ohio police department received an unusual 911 call Tuesday night. A frantic caller described seeing a man yelling and running down the street, police said. “There’s someone in front of our house… He’s yelling, and screaming and flailing his arms. And, I don’t want to get my kids out of the car yet because I don’t know what’s going on,” the woman told the dispatcher. “He’s running up and down the street, just yelling… He’s […]
After a trouble-filled sound check and a few glitches with the lights at the beginning of his set, Jordan Cook thinks he might have finally isolated...
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Andrea Kelly taking her own experiences of abuse to spread awareness about domestic abuse.
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