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Self-driving Uber to Take on San Francisco Streets
The service has added sensors to a few of its Volvo SUVs, enabling the vehicles to steer, accelerate, brake, and change lanes independently.
Watson-Powered Robot Aids the Elderly and Caregivers
The robot will perform several tasks, including helping to study innovative ways of measuring an individual’s vital signs and answering basic health-related questions.
Robot Sets Vertical Jumping Record
A robot can leap into the air and spring off a wall or jump multiple consecutive times to achieve a record combined jumping height.
Smart Sensors Underpin the Industrial Internet of Things
Employing the IIoT starts with the right sensors measuring the right parameters on the right industrial equipment collecting the right data, and then sending that information to the cloud for analysis.
Data Analytics: An Emerging Tool for Medical Treatment
Researchers were able to discern variations in healthcare costs among patients with similar conditions and were able to group patients based on their progress and to identify trends regarding recovery and treatment options.
The Education of a Smart Building
Control and power a smart building with Power over Ethernet.
Fujitsu Uses Graphene to Open Gate to New Gas Sensors
Development of a graphene-based gas sensor opens the gate to new environmental and healthcare monitoring devices.
Standard Evaluates Optical Trackers' Ability to Follow Objects
A new test method evaluates how well an optical tracking system defines an object’s position and orientation with six degrees of freedom: up/down, right/left, forward/backward, pitch, yaw and roll.
Sensors Detect Damage in Bridge Structures
Researchers use sensors to “listen” to a collection of signals from bridges and other mechanical structures that may help diagnose structural changes or damage.
Video: Robot Offers Improved Surgical Precision
The size of a soft drink can, this surgical robot overcomes operating constraints of larger counterparts.
Protecting Your Legacy Equipment from Cyber Attack
A Rockwell Automation blog offers three reasons for keeping security products and policies current.
Smart Sensors Could Reduce Rail Delays
Wet leaves pose a safety challenge for train operators, potentially doubling the breaking distance and causing signaling issues or "disappearing trains" on the rail control systems.
Light-Seeking Nanorobots Could Have Medical Applications
One difficulty in nanorobot design is to enable these nanostructures to sense and respond to their environment.
Automotive Robots Step Out from Safety Barrier
The brains of the smart robot are in software that processes waves and gestures, calculates all sequences of human motion recorded by the sensors around its working area and evaluates the results.
Mcity Opens Access to Advance Auto Research
Researchers can bring in their own hardware and swap out any sensor or create advanced controls to take advantage of various sensor technologies already on the vehicles.
Chips Bridge Gap Between Computation and Storage
University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are creating chips that can be configured to perform complex calculations and store massive amounts of information in the same integrated unit.
Unmanned, Automated Utility Ship to Be Built in 2017
The ship will initially be remotely piloted but will transition to fully automated and ultimately autonomous operations after control algorithms have been developed during the remote piloting phase.
Drones Team with Biobots Map Areas After Disasters
Unmanned aerial vehicles and insect cyborgs are being tested by university researchers to map areas such as collapsed buildings after a disaster.
Robots Help to Build Modular Bridge
Robots may reduce health and safety risks by removing manual lifting and handling, while enhancing the quality of the weld, helping to ensure consistency and increasing output.
Traveling Over the Holidays? RFID Could Help
Improvements in baggage handling rates may not have to come at a significant cost.