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11/14/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Robotic pets will soon have a new market – assisting seniors

Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based toy company Hasbro, Inc. and Providence, Rhode Island-based Brown University are partnering to enhance Hasbro’s toy pets and make them into smarter robots to help elders with everyday tasks. The project, which has been called ARIES (Affordable Robotic Intelligence for Elderly Support) will incorporate artificial intelligence capabilities to Hasbro’s existing toy, Joy […]

10/27/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

X-ray vision: New augmented reality system shows doctors what’s under your skin without a scalpel

A new technology, called ProjectDR, allows clinicians to observe patients’ internal anatomy without the need for them to go under the knife. It allows medical imaging such as computed tomography (CT) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) information to be shown directly on a patient’s body in a way that moves as the patient does. […]

10/12/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Better recycling of car scraps could yield big money AND help reduce emissions

A proper and meticulous sorting of scrap car parts could improve recycling rates of alloy elements to more than 97 percent, generating billions in savings and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a study by Tohoku University researchers and their colleagues showed. According to the study, optimizing the recycling process could result in a savings of $287 million (31.6 […]

10/01/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Powerful LED headlight for trains designed for optimum visibility uses a tenth of the power of conventional lights

With innovation as their top goal, researchers have designed a train headlight that can be powered by light-emitting diode (LED), something that makes use of only a tenth of the energy that should be incorporated for headlight use by traditional light sources. Researchers have developed a new LED-based train headlight that utilizes a tenth of […]

09/20/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

AI robot attends college, including a course about love

BINA48, a robot owned by lawyer, author, and entrepreneur Martine Aliana Rothblatt’s Terrasem Movement Foundation (TMF) is living the life of any normal college student in America: She attends classes at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California, and every once in a while gets excused from those classes when she needs to get […]

09/20/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Soft robot developed by Harvard researchers uses kirigami paper craft techniques to move, inspired by snakeskin

Talk about life imitating art, or in this case, the other way around: Researchers from Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have taken inspiration from an ancient Japanese form of paper craft to make their latest technological wonder – a soft robot that moves just like a snake. The results of their […]

01/15/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Is techno-farming going to replace chemical farming? Some farmers are switching from herbicides to robots for their weed problems

Robotic weeders are growing in popularity, an expert said, to support the growth and proliferation of specialty crops, or crops that are not mass-produced, and which include vegetables like broccoli, onions, lettuce, and tomatoes. The necessity for the utilization of robotic weeders comes from two issues: one, a lack of herbicides that can be used for […]

01/05/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Humans are embracing the rise of the “robosurgeon” but new studies suggest they are NOT better than human surgeons

Robotic surgeons are taking the National Health Service (NHS) by storm. They are now being used to conduct surgical operations for prostate cancer or for kidney and bladder problems, which decades ago have been the domain of human surgeons. The machines, employing pinpoint-accurate, computer-controlled arms, are being hyped as devices that can be utilized to […]

01/04/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Solar sector still growing: Solar power output rose 47% in the first three quarters of 2017, highlighting Trump’s support for clean power

Two major solar power plants – Switch Station 1 and Switch Station 2 – which generate a total of 179 megawatts of solar power, recently began commercial operations on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property in southern Nevada. This development brings home the fact that solar power is still booming in the United States even […]

12/17/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Researchers have designed a new solar device that may finally make hydrogen cars a reality

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have crafted a device that can utilize solar energy to effectively and cheaply create and store energy, which could then be used to power electronic devices, and to harness hydrogen fuel for environmentally-friendly cars. The device allows for inexpensive hydrogen vehicles because it can produce hydrogen using […]

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