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R2D2's next assignment: hospital orderly
A team of 27 robots are zooming around the hallways of the new University of California, San Francisco hospital at Mission Bay. They look a bit like R2D2, dragging a platform around behind them. Instead of drones, think of them more as little flatbed trucks, ferrying carts of stuff around the vast hospital complex - food, linens, medications, medical waste and garbage. And they do it more efficiently than humans.
Protection from the drone invasion
The remote nature of drones means that their rise to prominence has coincided with an increase in security risks. Thieves, spies, smugglers and terrorists are now able to pilot their drones over perimeter walls and into properties not visible from public roads – and all this from a relatively safe and risk-free distance for the criminal.
Gate drivers provide switching for power MOSFETs or IGBTs
The DGD21xx series of six half-bridge and six high/low-side 600V gate drivers introduced by Diodes Incorporated provides a simple means of switching power MOSFETs and IGBTs in half- and full-bridge configurations. Target applications include driving motors in white goods, industrial automation systems and battery-operated vehicles such as eBikes and drones.
iCatch Technology selects CEVA imaging & vision
CEVA has announced that iCatch Technology has licensed the CEVA imaging and vision DSP for its next-gen SoCs targeting the automotive, drone, surveillance camera markets. iCatch will leverage the powerful computer vision and image enhancement capabilities of the DSP to significantly enhance the feature set offered in their smart camera SoCs.
Robust flash storage suits automotive & IIoT markets
Expanding the company’s robust, intelligent solutions designed to address the vast data generated by connected applications in automotive and industrial markets, SanDisk has introduced its latest gen automotive flash storage solution, an automotive grade SD card optimised to meet the unique storage demands of the 'connected car'.
Dev kits to the fore at Embedded World 2016
Embedded World 2016 will see a significant Farnell element14 presence, as it showcases its latest dev kits, single-board-computers, software products, and services on-stand. It will also expand its presence across a second stand, the result of an exclusive partnership with NXP, where it will be demonstrating a dedicated selection of Internet of Things (IoT) enabling products.
£5.25m project launched to deliver week-long mobile phone power
Intelligent Energy, the fuel cell technology company, is delighted to announce that it has today signed a Joint Development Agreement with an emerging smartphone OEM with the goal to develop embedded fuel cell technology for the manufacturer’s devices. Once embedded, a fuel cell has the potential to keep a smartphone powered for more than a week without plugging into the wall socket.
Intel accelerates path to 5G
Intel Corporation today announced industry partnerships and products that lay the groundwork for faster, smarter and more efficient 5G wireless networks designed to deliver 'amazing' new experiences throughout daily life. From embedded devices in athletes’ equipment and drones with collision avoidance capabilities, to autonomous vehicles, smart cities and more, connecting 'things' to each other, to people and the cloud is placing unpreceden...
Droneboarding may be 2016's best new sport
Droneboarding is the newly developed practice of using a drone to drag around someone on a snowboard.
Drone is a clone of the 'world's first' hoverbike
The Drone 3 is a boutique hand built vehicle, made right here in the UK, it omes with Spektrum DX5e radio controller, and 50W battery charger. This drone is an almost identical 1/3rd scale model of the new quadcopter design for the full-sized (manned) Hoverbike that was the 'worlds first' and was built and test-flown before the company even began work on the full-sized Hoverbike.