Industries
Turnkey robot automation for SMEs
As all objects around us become smarter, it seems only natural for old-fashioned industrial robots to follow the movement. The FACTORY-IN-A-DAY project has given them a push, making robot automation a serious avenue even for SMEs producing low volumes of highly diversified products. Robot automation may stand to reason when you’re running a high-throughput assembly line, but the business rationale is not so straightforward for SMEs.
10Gbps full duplex wireless radio to be showcased at MWC
Millimetre wave wireless networks provider, Siklu, has announced a new 10 Gigabit per second (Gbps) full duplex wireless solution. Operating over the interference free 70/80GHz bands, the new EtherHaul 8010 provides a reliable fibre extension solution where fibre exists, and greenfield Gigabit connectivity where there may be no fibre at all.
Laser wirelessly charges a smartphone safely at a distance
Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time developed a method to safely charge a smartphone wirelessly using a laser. As the team reports in a paper published in the Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable & Ubiquitous Technologies, a narrow, invisible beam from a laser emitter can deliver charge to a smartphone sitting across a room — and can potentially c...
Problems with human rights in the workplace? Develop a robot instead!
Unpacking groceries is a straightforward albeit tedious task: You reach into a bag, feel around for an item, and pull it out. A quick glance will tell you what the item is and where it should be stored. Now engineers from MIT and Princeton University have developed a robotic system that may one day lend a hand with this household chore, as well as assist in other picking and sorting tasks, from organising products in a warehouse to clearing ...
Printing technique recreates biological structures
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a printing technique using cells and molecules normally found in natural tissues to create constructs that resemble biological structures. These structures are embedded in an ink which is similar to their native environment and opens the possibility to make them behave as they would in the body.
'Brain on a chip' tracks how the brain folds
Being born with a 'tabula rasa' – a clean slate – in the case of the brain is something of a curse. Our brains are already wrinkled like walnuts by the time we are born. Babies born without these wrinkles – smooth brain syndrome – suffer from severe developmental deficiencies and their life expectancy is markedly reduced. The gene that causes this syndrome recently helped Weizmann Institute of Science researchers to probe ...
Method investigates brain function and its ageing
Physicists have devised a method of investigating brain function, opening a frontier in the diagnoses of neurodegenerative and ageing related diseases. This new non-invasive technique could potentially be used for any diagnosis based on cardiovascular and metabolic-related diseases of the brain. The researchers at Lancaster University and the Medical University of Gdansk (Poland) deciphered oscillations in the cerebrospinal fluid which ...
Deep learning software analyses cardiovascular risk
Heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular (CV) diseases continue to be among the top public health issues. Assessing this risk is critical first step toward reducing the likelihood that a patient suffers a CV event in the future. To do this assessment, doctors take into account a variety of risk factors — some genetic (like age and sex), some with lifestyle components (like smoking and blood pressure).
Laser fabric cures skin diseases
Chronic skin conditions such as acne, Actinic Keratosis, and psoriasis can now be treated in a single 150 minute appointment, thanks to a wearable laser that blasts the skin with light. French scientists at 'Texinov Medical Textiles', have developed a knitted laser fabric that blasts the skin with light, giving treatment to enflamed skin or lesions over a 2 and a half hour appointment.
Stretchable electronics could improve stroke recovery treatment
A wearable designed to be worn on the throat could be a game-changer in the field of stroke rehabilitation. Developed in the lab of John Rogers, PhD, professor of Neurological Surgery and at the McCormick School of Engineering, in partnership with Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, the sensor is the latest in Rogers’ growing portfolio of stretchable electronics that are precise enough for use in advanced medical care and portable enough to be wo...