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Michigan State University engineering researchers have created a way to harvest energy from human motion, using a film-like device that actually can be folded to create more power. With the low-cost device, known as a nanogenerator, the scientists successfully operated an LCD touch screen, a bank of 20 LED lights and a flexible keyboard, all with a simple touching or pressing motion and without the aid of a battery.

A wide range of test solutions for diverse applications throughout the Internet of Things (IoT)will be featured by Advantest at this year’s SEMICON Japan (December 14-16) in Tokyo. Advantest will showcase both its newest test solutions and its market-proven products. Displays will be organised into four general categories of IoT applications: Industrial, Wireless/Wearables, Connected Homes, and Connected Automobiles.

Imagine if you could use your smartphone to take pictures of static and moving objects and “re-construct” the real world into a 3D image – almost instantaneously. Instead of the usual 2D photos snapped inside Rome’s Sistine Chapel, you’d be able to create an immersive 3D tourism experience to share with friends. A plastic surgeon could use the technology to measure the progress of rebuilding a nose in real time durin...

In 2016, operators worldwide began strategising how NFV could play a central role in their networks, as they hoped to drive efficiencies and move to a more flexible Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications model. VoLTE deployments continued, but at a slower rate than anticipated, due to a number of teething problems in deploying the technology and uncertainty around customer up-take.

Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe and pikkerton GmbH were announced winners of the Electronics Weekly Elektra Award for Excellence in Product Design, Medical Category, at a ceremony held in London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. The design of pikkerton’s Grannyguard fall detection system, which is used in the care of elderly people, benefits from its use of Grid-EYE infrared sensors developed by Panasonic Automotive & ...

Renesas Electronics announced its latest innovative developments in Ethernet time-sensitive networking (TSN). Renesas has become the world’s first to demonstrate standard compliance and interoperability for frame preemption, the most essential feature for TSN at the AVnu Plugfest.Ethernet TSN standards are currently under development by the TSN task group of IEEE802.1. Their goal is to pave the way for seamless deterministic communication v...

Texas Instruments is extending its Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle System-on-Chip (SoC) portfolio, with the availability of a development board and a rapidly growing ecosystem. RT-RK, an embedded services and product development company globally recognised for their digital signal processing software development, along with TI are announcing the availability of the RT-RK Alpha development board.

Roboticists at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded. The agility of the robot opens new pathways of locomotion that were not previously attainable. The researchers hope that one day this robot and other vertically agile robots can be used to jump around rubble in search and ...

The Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has up to £100,000 available to fund research into how automation and machine intelligence can analyse data to enhance decision making in the defence and security sectors. Dstl is continuing to invest in novel procurement routes and is collaborating with the Digital Catapult Centre to run a one and a half day workshop. The aim is to stimulate debate, generate ideas and to forge links wi...

Leti researchers have demonstrated that memristive devices are excellent candidates to emulate synaptic plasticity, the capability of synapses to enhance or diminish their connectivity between neurons, which is widely believed to be the cellular basis for learning and memory.The breakthrough was presented at IEDM 2016 in San Francisco in the paper, “Experimental Demonstration of Short and Long Term Synaptic Plasticity Using OxRAM Multi k-bi...