"Oh Kickstarter, is there anything you can't do?" Apparently not, given the supremely exciting level of participation in the Kickstarter effort for the LIFX, a WiFi-enabled, multi-colored, energy-efficient LED light bulb that you can ...
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Digitimes Research:Automated robots help lower solar installation costs Enoki Chen,DIGITIMES Research,Taipei [Thursday 20 September 2012]In the past year,many large-size solar brands declared bankruptcy due to solar incentive cuts and high ...
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It's probably fair to ask why Japanese electronics maker Sharp--deep in debt and red ink,cutting workers and salaries,awash in excess inventory in the brutal LCD market--is actively promoting a line of talking vacuum cleaners. But the ...
PMMI,owner and producer of the Pack Expo trade shows,recently announced that Pack Expo International 2012(October 28-31;McCormick Place,Chicago),has sold out of exhibit space.The show will be the largest edition of the show since 2002,with ...
The Liftport Group,aimed at realising Arthur C Clarke's 1979 vision of an earth-to-moon elevator,has been set up by ex-Nasa engineer Michael Laine. The company is using the money-raising site Kickstarter to access capital.The first ...
The Mars Curiosity Rover,a robot sent to Mars by NASA to investigate the possibility of extra-terrestrial life on the planet,had to undergo a rigorous software verification process to ensure that it could safely land on Mars. Further ...
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The Mars rover Curiosity is on a mission to deliver what scientists hope will be groundbreaking scientific research that wouldn't be possible without robotics,according to a NASA chief engineer. "It's critical to this mission,"said Louise ...
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Computerworld-NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is three-quarters of the way through a major software upgrade NASA has dubbed a"brain transplant." The four-day software upgrade started Saturday and,if all goes as planned,should wrap up by ...
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The German laser company Trumpf is to supply the car maker BMW with 14 of its “TruDisk” lasers, with shipments scheduled to begin this October. Trumpf says that the laser units will feature a variety of beam ...
Simulating the Mars mission Computational curiosity Landing system IT has been key to successfully landing the rover robot Curiosity, on Mars earlier this week. Mars missions in the past have not had a great track record. But the landing ...
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How do you envision the bathroom of the future?With Minority Report-style touchscreen computers in lieu of shower curtains?With robot maids squirting measures of shower gel into your open palm?Instead of a bath,a hoverbath? Well,those ...
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UK-Philips Entertainment and Architainment Lighting have loaned lighting design consultants dpa and social enterprise Industri[us]the latest Philips Selecon low energy,colour changing luminaires to enhance a regeneration project in the ...
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Fully charged:Lockheed Martin's Stalker Wireless power transmission,a notion whose principles were pondered by Nikola Tesla and Arthur C.Clarke amongst others,may soon be put to practical use as a means to extend the flying time of ...
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The eye has inspired robot vision steering at Georgia Tech. Key to the control system is a muscle-like piezoelectric actuator. In muscle,many small actuator units are connected in series or in parallel. "The actuators developed in ...
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For the first time,researchers have used fMRI-which detects your brain activity in real time-to allow someone to embody a robot hundreds of kilometres away using thought alone. "The ultimate goal is to create a surrogate,like in ...