Author: Ben Michaels

Innovative Robotic Leak Detection System to Monitor World’s Water Distribution Systems

Innovative Robotic Leak Detection System to Monitor World’s Water Distribution Systems

Posted by | Jul 18, 2017 | |

The main role of a water distribution system is to provide water to consumers with pressurized safe drinking water to all consumers. Public water systems depend on distribution systems to provide an uninterrupted supply of appropriate quality, necessary quantity with adequate pressure. Limited new natural water sources, along with a rapidly increasing world population has led to the need for innovative methods to efficiently manage our water distribution systems. One of the main requirements of a good water distribution system is that it remains water-tight to keep losses due to leakage to a bare minimum. The challenge is that many...

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Hypoallergenic Wearable Electronic Sensor For Health Monitoring Developed

Hypoallergenic Wearable Electronic Sensor For Health Monitoring Developed

Posted by | Jul 18, 2017 | |

In the past, the size of medical sensors and front-end electronics made it too difficult to use wearable technology to gather key health data over long time periods. Now, with recent advances in microelectronics, front-end amplification, sensor manufacturing and wireless data transmission, wearable medical-grade sensors can now be fitted into digital health systems to monitor a range of vital health signs. With the reduction in size, new high tech wearable’s utilizing lightweight ultra-thin films and thin rubber sheet, have been manufactured to apply right onto the skin to allow continuous physiological monitoring. While these wearable medical-grade sensors adhere and...

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NASA’s NICER Begins Neutron Star Exploration Mission

NASA’s NICER Begins Neutron Star Exploration Mission

Posted by | Jul 17, 2017 | |

Launched June 3, 2017 from a Falcon 9 rocket, NASA’s new Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission to observe spinning Neutron stars has initiated science operations. NICER, which is on an 18 month NASA run experiment, will also initiate the world’s first demonstration of X-ray navigation in space. Neutron stars are city-size stellar objects created when giant stars die in spectacular supernovas. Neutron stars are the densest observable objects in the universe, and have a mass about 1.4 times that of the sun and are about 20 km in diameter. They are appropriately named because during their transition...

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Amazon Anytime Messaging app Likely in the Works

Amazon Anytime Messaging app Likely in the Works

Posted by | Jul 17, 2017 | |

Mobile messaging apps have come along way from the basic necessities of free mobile calling and texting services. Established mobile apps like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Line, Snapchat, Apple Messages and Skype, all offer key features like social networking, some type of free voice calling and mobile texting.  But despite all these challengers, Amazon is allegedly and likely developing its own new messaging service dubbed Anytime, according to a new report from AFTV news, Amazon has been conducting surveys on what people want in their mobile messaging apps, and seems determined to deliver something new and full-featured to the market that gives...

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Teaching Robots How to Learn and Interpret in 3D Vision

Teaching Robots How to Learn and Interpret in 3D Vision

Posted by | Jul 16, 2017 | |

In this new age of more sophisticated AI and machine learning algorithms, more autonomous robots are being worked on everyday.  But in the past 50 years, most robotic implementations only took on performing a specific set of tasks.  Most if not all industrial robots over that time exclusively performed repetitive tasks, so those that had camera sensors only required 2-D perception. But a new breed of collaborate robot will have more complicated responsibilities, like being able to pickup-and-place a variety of different sized and shaped objects.  Many robots will need to be able to map free space in 3-D...

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