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Technology develops brain wiring diagrams
The human brain is composed of billions of neurons wired together in intricate webs and communicating through electrical pulses and chemical signals. Although neuroscientists have made progress in understanding the brain's many functions—such as regulating sleep, storing memories, and making decisions—visualising the entire "wiring diagram" of neural connections throughout a brain is not possible using currently available methods.
MEMS sensor improves drone flying and navigation experience
At the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, US, Bosch Sensortec has launched the MEMS sensor BMI088, a high performance Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) with vibration robustness, specifically designed for drone and robotics applications.
App transports the care industry into the digital age
The introduction of a new app, KareInn, is set to bring the caregiving industry into the digital age. With public spending on social care falling by up to 30% since 2010, there is a desperate need for care homes to provide better quality care in a more cost-efficient way. KareInn enables carers to spend more time caring and provide a better quality of care.
Mapping out the airspace for the autonomous world of drones
Soon it may not only be our roads that are congested. The growing popularity of drones, whether for recreational or commercial use, has highlighted the challenge of managing traffic in low altitude airspace. Moreover, in the future autonomous world, the traffic of both airborne and ground vehicles will need to be well orchestrated to ensure safety aswell as efficiency.
Taking robot fighting to a whole new level
Pilot Labs has announced the Moorebot Zeus Battle Robot that takes robot fighting to an entirely new level. From Boxing, to Kung Fu, to Karate, unleashing the imagination is in the palm of your hand.
Supercharged antibiotics could fight superbugs
A drug supercharged by University of Queensland researchers has emerged as a new antibiotic that could destroy some of the world’s most dangerous superbugs. The supercharge technique , led by Dr Mark Blaskovich and Professor Matt Cooper from UQ’s IMB, potentially could revitalise other antibiotics. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria – superbugs – cause 700,000 deaths worldwide each year, and a UK government review has...
Mid-air haptic technology commercialised in 4D slot machines
Mid-air haptics company, Ultrahaptics has signed an agreement with global gaming leader IGT to supply its mid-air haptic feedback solution for implementation in IGT’s TRUE 4D games on the CrystalCurve TRUE 4D cabinet.
Dermapace System receives FDA Approval
SANUWAVE Health, Inc. has announced that the FDA has issued its decision on the de novo submission for the dermaPACE System. Their decision, dated December 28, 2017, permits the marketing of the dermaPACE System as a Class II medical device used for the treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU) in the U.S., the world’s largest medical device market.
Eye disease could be treated with stem cells
Scientists at the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, report that tiny tube-like protrusions called primary cilia on cells of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) - a layer of cells in the back of the eye - are essential for the survival of the retina's light-sensing photoreceptors.
Micro-robots made from algae could aid treatment
In tests, a swarm of robots measuring a few millionths of a metre long – about the size of a blood cell – were guided magnetically to sites in the stomach of rats. The robots were manufactured by coating tiny algae with magnetic particles. They could be tracked in tissue close to the skin’s surface by imaging the algae’s natural fluorescence, and in hard-to-reach deeper tissue by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).