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Bringing extreme Hollywood film making to life
With advanced, high-voltage Gold Drum servo drives, perfected with Elmo's Application Studio motion design software, the Mega Trax robotic camera dolly is able to capture extreme live-action footage. Elmo Motion Control an innovative motion solutions company designed to make smart machines smarter, has announced that the revolutionary Mega Trax MX 500 semi-autonomous, high-speed, robotic dolly system uses its Gold Drum HV servo drives and th...
Reduced flange connector targets military markets
Designed for reduced spaces in military and aviation applications, Amphenol Socapex's 38999 Reduced Flange receptacle combines space and weight savings with the performance of a MIL-DTL-38999 Series III connector. Its design reduces the footprint surface by 41%. It is also 20% lighter than a standard MIL-DTL-38999 Series III connector. The connector is suitable in situations where a maximum number of MIL-DTL-38999 Series III connectors need ...
Target for development of antibiotics is revealed
In an article published in Nature Communications, a group of scientists from Brazil and France describe a new strategy to kill bacilli, rod-shaped or cylindrical bacteria that include several species that cause diseases in humans, such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Helicobacter pylori.
CR in rats leads to less fat, more hair, and younger skin
Caloric restriction diets have been associated with various health benefits, but their effects on the skin have not been previously demonstrated. Research conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil shows that controlling calories helps mice live longer, although it reduces the reserves of fat in adipose tissue needed to keep the body warm. To offset this effect of the diet, the cutaneous tissue of the mice stimulated fur...
One step closer to creating a sustainable oxygen supply on Mars
A new study has found that plasma technology could hold the key to creating a sustainable oxygen supply on Mars. It suggests that Mars, with its 96% carbon dioxide atmosphere, has nearly ideal conditions for creating oxygen from CO2 through a process known as decomposition.
Everything you need to know about flying a drone - Part 3
In the earlier parts of this article, we discussed the flying basics of flying a drone, getting airborne, the controls, hovering, changing orientation and changing direction. Find part 1 and part 2 here.
Tapping out the benefits for aerospace manufacturers
Due to a strong demand for reliable maching solutions in the aerospace industry, cutting tool and tooling system specialist Sandvik Coromant has launched new tapping and thread millung tools for ISO S materials (titanium and nickel-based alloys). The products have been purpose designed to deliver process security on high value components, such as engine casings, thus providing reductions in scrap rates and machine downtime.
Integrated lab-on-a-chip quickly detects multiple pathogens
A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington at Tacoma has developed a novel platform to diagnose infectious disease at the point-of-care, using a smartphone as the detection instrument in conjunction with a test kit in the format of a credit card.
Sound waves achieve single cell level sorting technology
Sound wave enables the sensation of hearing, and is an important way of communicating in the animal world. In physics, sound is considered as a mechanical vibration that can propagate in gases, liquids and solids. A research team from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), led by Assistant Professor Dr Ye Ai, is studying the interactions between ultrasound (beyond the audible limit of human hearing) and micron-sized objects (e....
BrainChip Accelerator for evaluation in ADAS and AV
BrainChip Holdings has announced that it has shipped its first BrainChip Accelerator card to a major European automobile manufacturer. As the first commercial implementation of a hardware-accelerated spiking neural network (SNN) system, the shipment of BrainChip Accelerator is a significant milestone in neuromorphic computing, a branch of artificial intelligence that simulates neuron functions.