Neuralink, a company owned by Elon Musk which focuses on mind control recently released a blog post video with details of an invention which uses its hardware making it possible for a monkey to play Pong with only its brain.…
Category: Robotic Sensors
“Smart” Clothes Which Measure Movement
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have designed a clothing which makes use of special fibers to sense a person’s movement through touch. The clothes are also capable of determining if a person is walking, sitting…
ICIT 2018: WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS: HARDWARE/SOFTWARE DESIGN ASPECTS FOR INDUSTRY
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MIT’s Solve 2017 Problem Solving Global challenges
Solve has launched its new challenges for 2017, which is a good base for wireless sensor network practitioners, researchers and IoT experts to showcase why the future belongs to us. According to MIT President Rafael Reif at Solve at MIT…
Sensation in Robotic Arms
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…
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…
Robust Geographic Routing and Location – based Services
Workshop On Human-X Haptic Collaboration
A haptic interface is a force reflecting device which allows a user to touch, feel, manipulate, create and/or alter simulated 3D objects in a virtual environment” This forces displays a technology that works by using mechanical actuators to apply forces…
Dennis Hong: My seven species of robot
Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR — all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab’s…