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Video: Duke Engineering Team Vies for Amazon Robotics Challenge
The Amazon Robotics Challenge is designed to fill a need for a warehouse sorting robot that can do the job of multiple people.
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Harry Potter Fans: Owning Your Own Invisibility Cloak Could Soon Be a Reality
A team of University of Michigan researchers has developed a new technique for peppering metallic nanoparticles into semiconductors, which could boost the efficiency of LED lighting by 50 percent. It could even be the next step toward developing invisibility cloaks.
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Streamlining the 3-D Modeling Process
A new computational method for generating 3-D shapes has the potential to transform video games, VR and more.
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Video: Seeing AI Camera App Aids Visually Impaired
The Microsoft app is designed to help blind and low-vision users gain a greater measure of independence.
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Microsoft and Baidu Team for Autonomous Driving Platform
The agreement will further the Apollo driverless project.
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New DX Technology Could Lead to Fewer Complications for Heart Failure Patients
BIOTRONIK announced the FDA approval and availability for the Intica DX and Intica cardiac resynchronization therapy-DX implantable cardioverter defibrillator systems.
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Tiny Sensors Play Outsized Role in Huge Wind Turbines
Several types of electrical sensors play important roles in wind turbines.
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New Microcontroller Series Extends Flash Memory
Mouser Electronics is now stocking the ATtiny1617 microcontroller series from Microchip Technology.
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Video: Non-Invasive Implantable Neural Interface Based on Silicon Electronics
Engineers are designing an implantable device at the scale of one million channels to enable recording and stimulation from the sensory cortex.
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Keeping Cool with Kitronik
An enclosure kit for a USB fan combines 3D printing and electronics.
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Teardown: Samsung SmartThings Hub
Samsung's SmartThings Hub wirelessly connects hundreds of compatible smart devices including lights, speakers, locks, thermostats, sensors, and more, allowing them all to work together. Take a peek inside.
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Synchronous Motor Achieves Efficiency Record
The efficiency recorded for the 44 MW motor was 0.25 percent higher than the 98.8 percent stipulated in a customer's contract.
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Types of Biometric Coprocessors
Using your body to gain access to a building or to unlock a device used to be the stuff of science fiction. No longer is that the case with the ever-evolving field of biometrics.
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Video: Problem-Solving LED Lightbulb
Feit Electric introduces new energy saving, intelligent lighting solution without any need for smart home hardware.
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Video: Lowe’s Begins DIY Skill-Building Program
The UpSkill Project will teach would-be project-doers experience and knowledge.
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Video: Watch a DIY Flying Hoverbike in Action Built by a Guy in a Garage
The FlytCycle is a hoverbike that can traverse any terrain just a couple of feet off the ground. It could be used for personal travel, search and rescue or emergency services.
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Video: Floating Space Drone on ISS Manufactured Using 3-D Printing
JAXA is using the drone to record still images and video in zero gravity.
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People Can Only Spot Fake Photos 60% of the Time
However, the exact nature of the manipulations is hard to identify
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New Cybersecurity Protection for Water, Energy Utilities
The Lieberman RED -- Rapid Enterprise Defense™ Suite -- helps utilities in critical national infrastructure industries meet U.S. federal government cybersecurity regulations.
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Video: Mystery 16th Century Text Revealed By Combining Two Imaging Techniques
An interdisciplinary team of Northwestern University researchers combined visible hyperspectral imaging and x-ray fluorescence to develop a new nondestructive imaging technology that revealed 500-year-old text.
