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Pokédrone enables trainers to catch 'em all
Specially designed for all Pokémon Go players, TRNDlabs have announced their Pokédrone, the drone gives trainers the tools be the very best, like no one ever was. To catch them, fly the drone to hard to reach areas, whether that be in the middle of a lake, or the top of a hill you just cannot be bothered to climb.
UAVs: Ruling the waves
With so much talk in the news about the autonomous vehicles that will soon be taking over the streets we drive on, let’s take a look at how autonomous vehicles have overwhelmed our Earth’s oceans too. Nicolette Emmino explains.
3D-printed robots with shock-absorbing skins
Anyone who’s watched drone videos or an episode of “BattleBots” knows that robots can break — and often it’s because they don’t have the proper padding to protect themselves.But this week researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will present a method for3Dprinting soft materials that make robots safer and more precise in their movements — and that could be...
One-eyed robot learns to see in weightlessness
A small drone taught itself to judge distances using only one eye during trials aboard the International Space Station, ESA-backed researchers have reported.Although humans can effortlessly estimate distances with a single eye, robots still lack this capability.“It is a mathematical impossibility to extract distances to objects from one single image, if the object has not been encountered before,” explains Guido de Croon from Delft Un...
Are sensing technologies impacting our future?
Consumer applications, especially smartphones and tablets, have been the main driver of the MEMS and sensors industry for some time now. Today, a general slowdown has been clearly identified by the players and confirmed by the Yole Développement (Yole) report, Status of the MEMS Industry (Yole Développement, May 2016).
BrainChip appoints T2M for global marketing
BrainChip Holdings has signed a commercial marketing agreement with T2M. Under the terms of the agreement T2M will act as a global representative of BrainChip’s technology solutions.BrainChip’s ‘Spiking Neuron Adaptive Processor’ (SNAP) technology is a next-gen hardware solution that acts like ‘digital neurons’, with the ability to learn autonomously, evolve and associate information just like the human brain.
Drones used to rescue drowning people
Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), in cooperation with the Munich University of Applied Sciences and Wasserwacht (German Water Rescue Service) at Riem, have developed a technique for locating drowning people faster with support from Autel. Images captured by drones are expected to help in this respect. Researchers, however, still face many challenges.
Smart connected energy efficient solutions demonstrated at electronica
The driving energy efficient innovations from ON Semiconductors will focus on three key market segments at this year’s electronica in Munich. Visitors to the 400m2booth will see the company’s latest products and innovations for automotive, the Internet of Things (IoT), and motor control devices.
New MIPS CPU is heterogeneous inside and out
The new MIPS Warrior I-class I6500 CPU has been announced by Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) as a multi-threaded, multi-core, multi-cluster design that delivers new levels of system efficiency and scalable computing for many-core heterogeneous designs.
As commercial drones continue to grow, so do the risks
Drones have the potential to become a multi-billion dollar business, whether they are used commercially for industrial inspections, aerial photography, border patrol, emergency deliveries and crop surveys or recreationally by millions.However, a number of safety concerns are rising as more and more drones enter the skies.