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Video Friday: Cassie's Star Wars AT-ST Costume, and More

2 Νοεμβρίου 2018 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!): ICSR 2018 – November…

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How to Encode a Secret Message in a Fingerprint

2 Νοεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Fingerprints are no longer just a way to identify people—they can also be used to send private notesAnalyzing fingerprints found at the scene of the crime is a classic way to identify a criminal who has accidentally left behind his or her unique signature. But what if there’s another way…

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When Life Gives You No MLCCs, Make Use of Polymer Capacitors

1 Νοεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Taking into account price/cost, Tantalum capacitors had been avoided under many circumstances, while favoring Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCCs). Due to the massive MLCC shortage on the market it’s time to dismantle old prejudicesUnless you have been living under a rock for the last 12 months, the following news will not…

Scientists Use Metamaterial to Make Chip-sized Synchrotron

1 Νοεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Tiny antennas emit T-raysSynchrotrons are amazing devices that use magnetic fields to get particles racing around kilometer-long tracks until they emit powerful x-rays. Now a team of scientists from the University of Michigan have performed the same feat, but they’ve done it on a tiny microchip, pushing a beam of…

Jurassic Park for Perfume: Ginkgo Bioworks Reconstructs Scents From Extinct Plants

1 Νοεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Synthetic biologists resurrect fragrance-producing genes from bygone plant speciesMove aside, Chanel No. 5. Scientists have now created a scent that’s even older than the iconic perfume, even if it only just wafted into human nostrils for the first time in more than 100 years. That’s because the piney, earthy perfume…

Solid-State Lidar Improves e-Tolling Profiling Data

1 Νοεμβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Better data makes for better vehicle detection, profiling and classification, improving e-toll ROI.Learn how flash solid-state lidar collects vehicle data more accurately than current e-toll systems. This improves vehicle profiling accuracy, ensuring vehicles are tolled fairly despite environmental and application challenges. It also reduces operator expenses, which maximizes revenue. Source:…

The Industrial Internet of Things

31 Οκτωβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Creating intelligent solutions to solve real-world problemsWhat is Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT? Industry 4.0, Industrial IoT, and Industrial Internet are used interchangeably when talking about the new era of manufacturing. A digital ecosystem of connected machines, equipment and devices that communicate with one another, this cyber physical system with…

Flex Logix Says It’s Solved Deep Learning’s DRAM Problem

31 Οκτωβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Bandwidth limits mean AI systems need too much DRAM, embedded-FPGA startup thinks its technology can change that Deep learning has a DRAM problem. Systems designed to do difficult things in real time, such as telling a cat from a kid in a car’s backup camera video stream, are continuously shuttling…

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This Robot Transforms Itself to Navigate an Obstacle Course

31 Οκτωβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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A central perception system allows a robot to change its own configurations for each new challengeWhen you’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail, but the world starts to look more interesting if your hammer can change shape. For the builders of a class of robots called modular self-reconfigurable robots (MSRR), shape-shifting…

Sensor-laden Gadgets Track Package Abuse and Blood Sugar Changes Noninvasively

30 Οκτωβρίου 2018 by paulkokos

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Sensors and analytics also poised to tell hockey players when they are skating their bestEvery year, the MEMS & Sensors Industry Group (MSIG) puts out a call for new, innovative gadgets that show off the latest capabilities of devices including accelerometers, gyroscopes, and microphones. This year, MSIG selected five gadgets…

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