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Melting Arctic Ice Opens a New Fiber Optic Cable Route

13 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Cinia and MegaFon’s proposed Arctic cable would bring lower latencies and geographical diversityThe most reliable way to reduce latency is to make sure your signal travels over the shortest physical distance possible. Nowhere is that more evident than the fiber optic cables that cross oceans to connect continents. There will always…

T-RHex Is a Hexapod Robot With Microspines on Its Feet

12 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Tiny spikes allow this robot to climb its way up steep slopes and grip onto rough surfacesIn Aaron Johnson’s “Robot Design & Experimentation” class at CMU, teams of students have a semester to design and build an experimental robotic system based on a theme. For spring 2019, that theme was…

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Robotic Animal Agility

12 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Packed with sensory systems and equipped with revolutionary joints, the ANYmal robot is perfectly at ease on even the roughest terrain. It will soon be ready to inspect industrial sites, sewage systems and agricultural fields with complete autonomy.An off-shore wind power platform, somewhere in the North Sea, on a freezing…

Sensitive Whiskers Could Make Small Drones Safer

10 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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This whisker sensing system can detect air pressure from objects even before they make physical contactAnimals of all shapes and sizes have whiskers of some sort. Cats and dogs and rodents have them. Seals have them too. Some birds have them, as do insects and fish. Whiskers have shown up…

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Jaco Is a Low-Power Robot Arm That Hooks to Your Wheelchair

10 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Jaco by Kinova Robotics is an assistive robotic arm that can be mounted to an electric wheelchairWe usually think of robots as taking the place of humans in various tasks, but robots of all kinds can also enhance human capabilities. This may be especially true for people with disabilities. And while the Cybathlon competition…

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University of Southampton Uses the USRP and LabVIEW to Change the Way It Teaches Wireless Communications

10 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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The University of Southampton has been looking at new and innovative ways to teach the principles of wireless communication at a time when there is significant interest in wireless technologiesDemonstrating the Practical Challenges of Wireless Communications Most electronics education worldwide teaches wireless communications with a typical focus on communications theory.…

Video Friday: Humanoid Robot Digit Takes a Stroll Downtown

7 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosVideo Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): ICUAS 2019 – June…

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The Skim Reaper Is Coming to Protect You From Credit Card Theft

7 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Security researchers will soon begin selling a tool that can tell when a thief is trying to steal your credit card information aside.inlay.xlrg.XploreFree { font-family: "Georgia", serif; border-width: 4px 0; border-top: solid #888; border-bottom: solid #888; padding: 10px 0; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; } span.FreeRed { color: red; text-transform:…

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This Robot Ostrich Can Ride Around on Hovershoes

6 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Cassie gets a speedy new pair of shoes. Wheee!Proponents of legged robots say that they make sense because legs are often required to go where humans go. Proponents of wheeled robots say, “Yeah, that’s great but watch how fast and efficient my robot is, compared to yours.” Some robots try…

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Amazon Redesigns Its Prime Air Delivery Drone

6 Ιουνίου 2019 by paulkokos

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Amazon is finally starting to address some of the actual challenges with drone delivery, making us slightly less skepticalAmazon has been working away at its Prime Air urban and suburban drone delivery for years. Many years. It’s been at least half a decade now. And for the entire time, we’ve…

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