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STMicroelectronics and Autotalks Fuse Satellite Navigation with Vehicle-to-Vehicle and -Infrastructure Communication (V2X)

“STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and Israel-based Autotalks , a V2X-chipset market pioneer and leader in the first wave of V2X deployments, have announced their fusion of GNSS technology and V2X ranging …

Tech-Savvy Families Use Home-Built Diabetes Device

“Third-grader Andrew Calabrese carries his backpack everywhere he goes at his San Diego-area school. His backpack isn’t just filled with books, it is carrying his robotic pancreas. The device, long considered the Holy Grail of Type 1 diabetes technology …

This five-fingered robot hand learns to get a grip on its own

“Robots today can perform space missions, solve a Rubik’s cube, sort hospital medication and even make pancakes. But most can’t manage the simple act of grasping a pencil and spinning it around to get a solid grip. Intricate …

Two VelociRoACH Robots Cooperatively Climb a Step Taller than Their Size

“Researchers at Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, University of California, Berkeley, have taken inspiration from the cockroach and created a Cockroach-Inspired Robot VelociRoACH (Velocity Robotic Autonomous Crawling Hexapod) and demonstrated that two VelociRoACH robots cooperatively can climb a Step. Researchers will be …

A Hybrid Hydrostatic Transmission and Human-Safe Haptic Telepresence Robot

“We present a new type of hydrostatic transmission that uses a hybrid air-water configuration, analogous to N+1 cable-tendon transmissions, using N hydraulic lines and 1 pneumatic line for a system with N degrees of freedom (DOFs). The common air-filled …

Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source

“At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how computer systems can read and understand human language in order to process it in intelligent ways. Today, we are excited to share the fruits of our research with the …

Blue Light Exposure Reduces Organ Damage in Mice, CRISMA Researchers Find

“New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on April 25 points to an intriguing correlation between pre-surgical exposure to blue light and improved outcomes in mice, specifically a reduction in inflammation and organ damage. The …

Cayenne - Easy IoT for Raspberry Pi

“The world’s first drag-and-drop IoT project builder”

Compressonator (AMD Compress) is going open source

“We are very pleased to be announcing that AMD is open-sourcing one of our most popular tools and SDKs. Compressonator (previously released as AMD Compress on our Developer Central site ) is now available on GPUOpen.”

Graphene-Based Microbots for Toxic Heavy Metal Removal and Recovery from Water

“Heavy metal contamination in water is a serious risk to the public health and other life forms on earth. Current research in nanotechnology is developing new nanosystems and nanomaterials for the fast and efficient removal of pollutants and heavy metals …