Caltech biologist Richard Andersen is working to incorporate a sense of touch into the neural prosthetics he has been helping develop for years—devices implanted in the brain that allow a paralyzed patient to manipulate a robotic arm. Using funding from…
Author: Dr. Celestine Iwendi
Celestine Iwendi is a Sensor and Electronics Researcher at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He can be reached at celestine.iwendi@ieee.org
Device for Zika Virus Detection
An inexpensive device that can diagnose Zika in just a few hours has been developed. According to the James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering and…
Algorithms pave way for applications from stylish dressing to driverless cars
Raquel Urtasun has been named the Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision, received two Google faculty awards, a Connaught award, an Early Career award as well as a best paper award at the Computer Vision and Pattern…
The Magic of Chemical Sensing on a Chip
A principal research scientist at MIT’s Microphotonics Center, Anuradha Agarwal and her colleagues have developed miniaturized mid-infrared and far-infrared sensing systems that can be tuned to detect specific materials and their concentrations. Agarwal’s miniaturized infrared detection technology research offers the…
IoT Connecting Rural and Urban India
Investors and companies are of the opinion that Internet of Things (IoT) can bring a real revolution to India by empowering millions in rural areas and connecting “humans” to the mainstream. According to Oracle India managing director Shailender Kumar “It…
Satellite Internet- Rudiments to Africa’s Advancement and Development
The Sub-Saharan Africa according to Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation has succeeded in the last decade in bringing voice services within the reach of some three quarters of the population, but the vast majority of the region is falling further behind the…
Fireproof Aerial Robot System (FAROS) detects fires in skyscrapers
A group of researchers led by Professor Hyun Myung of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed an unmanned aerial vehicle, named the Fireproof Aerial Robot System (FAROS), a…
Report on Semiconductor Wireless Sensor networks – SemiWSN
A new research report of 640-page publication that is backed up by 266 figures and tables, titled “Semiconductor Wireless Sensor Internet of Things has been announced by MarketResearchReports.biz. According to them “Semiconductor wireless sensor networks are used to implement smart…
Special Session on Collaborative Wireless Sensor Networks (CWSN)
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an emerging technology widely adopted in various applications such home and industrial automation, environmental monitoring, health care, agriculture, sport, etc. WSN is a network of tiny and battery-powered sensor nodes deployed in the environments in…
Fighting Lassa Fever with big data
Researchers are of the opinion that Lassa fever as well can be treated with big data or at most the effect of the transmission should be prevented from spreading. Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness caused by Lassa…