Gimball bumps into and ricochets off of obstacles, rather than avoiding them. This 34 centimeter in diameter spherical flying robot buzzes around the most unpredictable, chaotic environments, without the need for fragile ...
Robotics
Oct 30, 2013
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The Tongue Drive System is getting less conspicuous and more capable. Tongue Drive is a wireless device that enables people with high-level spinal cord injuries to operate a computer and maneuver an electrically powered wheelchair ...
Engineering
Feb 20, 2012
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This summer, when bars and restaurants and stores began to reopen across the United States, people headed out despite the continuing threat of COVID-19.
Economics & Business
Dec 24, 2020
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane's telescope were fully opened in flight.
Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2009
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More than 3,000 animal species in the world today are considered endangered, with hundreds more categorized as vulnerable. Currently, ecologists don't have reliable tools to predict when a species may become at risk.
Ecology
Jan 18, 2021
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The global market for advanced automotive electronics - everything from driver assistance programs to new kinds of visual displays - will jump to $240 billion by 2020, up more than 50 percent from 2010, according to a recent ...
Hardware
May 31, 2013
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Silicon Image today introduced the camerIC-18, the newest member of its family of camerIC camera processor IP cores.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Oct 12, 2009
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ASUS today unveiled the first motherboard in its newly-developed "TUF" (The Ultimate Force) Series, the SABERTOOTH 55i.
Hardware
Sep 29, 2009
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A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Friedrich-Schiller-University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology has found that contrary to prior research results, dogs do not use their ...
Our planet's changing climate is devastating communities in Africa through droughts, floods and myriad other disasters.
Environment
Aug 2, 2012
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