Smaller than a flea, robot can walk, bend, twist, turn and jump Northwestern University engineers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and even jump. The researchers also developed millimeter-sized robots resembling inchworms, crickets and beetles. Although the research is exploratory at this point, the researchers bel...

COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding organisation for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and beyond and enable researchers and innovators to grow their ideas in any science and technology field by sharing them with their peers. COST Actions are bottom-up networks with a duration of four years that boost research, innovation and careers. European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) creates open s...

Walmart has started CExchange which accepts devices from a wide variety of popular consumer electronic devices, including cell phones, tablets, MP3 players, video games, cameras, laptops, and GPS units... and gives eGiftCard for it. What happens to my used device?Items whose condition and function warrant continued use will find a new home with new owners. Those that do not will be disposed of in an environmentally responsible way. Items in between those two extremes are channele...

BG-Sweetscent is a unique artificial odor that mimics scents found on human skin. The addition of this attractant makes mosquito traps highly attractive for Asian tiger mosquitoes and yellow fever mosquitoes. It targets host seeking female mosquitoes and therefore saves you from biting. A human’s skin scents are an important factor for mosquitoes to seek for and find their blood meal. Our BG-Sweetscent is a unique artificial odor that mimics scents found on human skin. The addition of this a...

SelfEco Compostable Self-Feeding pots have plant food built right into the walls of the container SelfEco is a United States made, eco-friendly, premium line of 100% compostable PLA caterware products. We offer a high-end option to the sustainable market. All SelfEco products are tree-free, petroleum-free, BPA-free, and landfill-free. SelfEco Garden Pots help plants grow faster, bigger, and fuller, all while using less energy. Made from plants, for your plants.The SelfEco Pot is a ...

Plenty® is rewriting the rules of agriculture with indoor vertical farms that grow fresh, flavorful, pesticide free greens – all while using just a fraction of the water and land compared to conventional farms Unique design for indoor vertical farms does not need sun to grow and its pesticide-free allowing plants to be grown in large quatuantity anywhere in the world. 'Plenty' plants are grown in optimal conditions: that means just the right amount of light, nutrients and water. 'P...

Carbon Robotics™ is pioneering the next revolution in agricultural technology: laserweeding. Weed control is one of farming’s biggest headaches. By leveraging artificial Intelligence and laser technology, Carbon Robotics delivers chemical-free, no-till, weed control for specialty crops. Our hi-resolutions cameras feed imagery in real time to an onboard supercomputer that runs computer vision models to identify crops and weeds. High-powered lasers then kill weeds at the meristem — without har...

PiMowBotIT is a combination of a Raspberry Pi (often abbreviated as "Pi"), a robotic lawn mower (MowBot). 'PiMowBotIT' - Allow your Lawnmower to mow your lawn autonomously using Raspberry Pi The mower has a variety of tools and sensors to navigate yards and determine where it needs to go in order to mow. The Pi is programmed to identify the color green as an acceptable plane to pass over for mowing. There are time-of-flight sensors for left and right sweeps and a camera that’s used fo...

NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road users to the city grid, solving today’s traffic challenges while unlocking smart mobility benefits for the cities, and creating an entirely new way of life NoTraffic offers turnkey traffic management platform powered by V2I communication & real-time optimization of signalized intersections. The system is based on a smart network of plug-and-play AI sensors that can transform every signalized inter...

A 3D printed bike are manufactured using additive manufacturing techniques, commonly known as 3D printing. This process involves creating a three-dimensional object by depositing successive layers of material according to a digital design. The concept of 3D printed bikes has gained popularity due to the potential benefits they offer. Some of the advantages of 3D printed bikes include: Customization: 3D printing allows for highly customizable designs. Each component of the bike can be tail...

TEABOT is an advanced robotic tea harvester developed by the Tregothnan Estate in Cornwall, England. Tregothnan is known for being the UK's first tea plantation, producing high-quality tea since 2005. The estate has a long history of horticulture and is famous for its unique microclimate that allows tea plants to thrive. TEABOT was created to revolutionize the tea harvesting process by combining robotic technology with the art of tea cultivation. It is designed to carefully pluck the tender ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo are developing interchangeable robot arms that can be worn like a backpack. The device, called "Jizai arms," is rooted in the idea of "jizai," a Japanese term Inami says roughly defines autonomy and the freedom to do as one pleases. JIZAI ARMS is a supernumerary robotic limb system consisting of a wearable base unit with six terminals and detachable robot arms controllable by the wearer. The system was designed to enable social interaction betwee...

The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven constituent monarchies: the Emirates of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. United Arab Emirates just granted a nationwide license to China's WeRide to operate its robotaxis and other cars on its roads. UAE is the first country to grant a nationwide license for self-driving cars on its roads. WeRide's primary focus is on developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology, which refers to highly a...

'dnata' is developed by Moley Robotics, it is able to recreate identical dishes at scale by following pre-recorded chef instructions. It is equipped with multiple sensors and machine learning capabilities, enabling it to precisely measure ingredients and execute complex cooking techniques. dnata, a leading global air and travel services provider, announced an exciting addition to their presence at the World Travel Catering & Onboard Services Expo (WTCE). Attendees visiting the company’s ...

U-Net is a convolutional neural network that was developed for biomedical image segmentation at the Computer Science Department of the University of Freiburg.[1] The network is based on the fully convolutional network[2] and its architecture was modified and extended to work with fewer training images and to yield more precise segmentations. Segmentation of a 512 × 512 image takes less than a second on a modern GPU. The U-Net architecture stems from the so-called “fully convolutional network...

"WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, today announced that it has created a HCI system with hybrid vision model based on computer vision and mixed reality. The system achieves natural interaction between the user and the computer in real-time and with realism through the hybrid vision of virtual images and real scenes via human eyes. System achieves natural interaction between the user and the computer in real-time and with realism ...

Alef Aeronautics Model A all-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) car approved by FAA. The car is designed to drive on the street, take off vertically when needed and fly overhead above traffic. The FAA's recognition allows the company to test its product in the skies, making it the first vehicle of its kind to receive government approval in the U.S. The Alef “Model A” flying car has a driving range of 200 miles and a flight range of 110miles. It has a distributed electric pr...

Shenzhen Yahboom Technology has formed a complete maker education ecosystem covering product hardware, programming control software, online course platform, and forum community, which can provide more complete services to many students, geeks, and programming developers, and actively promote the development of maker education. The main products of company are artificial intelligence educational robots, programming educational robots for all ages, open source hardware platforms and related le...

Equatic has developed an electrolytic process for atmospheric carbon dioxide removal that leverages the size and scale of the oceans. The process stabilizes carbon dioxide permanently in the form of dissolved bicarbonate ions (in seawater), and in the form of solid mineral carbonates. Moreover, the process produces hydrogen - a green fuel - as a co-product that generates revenue and clean energy. Anew California-based startup is trying to take on climate change by simultaneously taking carbo...

Architecture studio Grimshaw and the University of East London have collaborated to create Sugarcrete, a biomaterial construction block with an interlocking shape made from the sugarcane by-product bagasse. Sugarcrete was developed to be a low-cost and low-carbon reusable construction-material alternative to brick and concrete. The Sugarcrete TM project brings together experts from the University of East London and sector leading organisations Grimshaw and&nbs...

Serve Robotics Inc., the leading autonomous sidewalk delivery company, unveiled the scope of their partnership with Uber Technologies Inc. (NYSE: UBER), the world's largest food delivery and ridesharing platform. The company's commercial agreement allows for Serve to deploy its robots on Uber Eats in multiple markets across the United States, with up to two thousand Serve Robots to be fielded. Utilizing delivery robots has the potential to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution, while also...

Scientists from the University of Monash in Melbourne, Australia, have found that the shape of your brain could strongly influence how you think, feel and behave. Brain shape may strongly influence thoughts and behavior, study finds our brain is more superficial than we thought. Previously, scientists thought neuron connectivity in the brain is what drives its function. However, recent research has found it could actually be affected by the brain’s grooves, contours and folds — rather tha...

BJØRN KARMANN CREATES A RASPBERRY PI CAMERA THAT’S NOT ACTUALLY A CAMERA At first glance, the project by Bjørn Karmann will seem nothing more than a classic camera. But instead of a lens, the Raspberry Pi Camera has a huge cover, which looks like a nose of a star-nosed mole. For the viewfinder, Bjørn Karmann has utilized a screen where you can adjust the settings for getting the AI-generated picture. The camera also comes with a series of dials, which you can adjust traditional camera par...

The Technology Innovation Institute is an Abu Dhabi government funded research institution that operates in the areas of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, autonomous robotics, cryptography, advanced materials, digital science, directed energy and secure systems. The institute is a part of the Abu Dhabi Government's Advanced Technology Research Council. OBJECTIVESIt attracts the best scientific talent by offering world-class facilities and resources. It partners with the best academ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have trained a robotic ‘chef’ to watch and learn from cooking videos, and recreate the dish itself. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, programmed their robotic chef with a ‘cookbook’ of eight simple salad recipes. After watching a video of a human demonstrating one of the recipes, the robot was able to identify which recipe was being prepared and make it. In addition, the videos helped the robot incrementally add to its cookbook. ...

Falcon was built using custom tooling and leverages a unique data pipeline that can extract high-quality content out of web data and use it for training a custom codebase, independent from the works of NVIDIA, Microsoft, or HuggingFace. A particular focus was put on data quality at scale. LLMs are notoriously sensitive to the quality of their training data, so significant care was taken in building a data pipeline that would both scale to tens of thousands of CPU cores for fast processing, a...

Hanergy, a Chinese company specialized in solar power, has unveiled four concept cars that use solar panels. On solar power alone range is about 80 kilometer on a six-hour charge in the sun. The energy is stored in lithium ion batteries. Crucially, these can be charged at any EV charging station for a full range of 350 kilometer. Hanergy Glory Solar Technology Company, an EV startup proposed the concept of "Plug-In Never" as a way to solve common issues faced by owners of more traditi...

Australian-led international research team generates the first model of early human embryos from skin cells In a discovery that will revolutionise research into the causes of early miscarriage, infertility and the study of early human development - an international team of scientists led by Monash University in Melbourne, Australia has generated a model of a human embryo from skin cells. The team, led by Professor Jose Polo, has successfully reprogrammed these fibroblasts or skin cells in...

TCL’s latest 65-inch OLED TV is the world’s largest flexible OLED foldable screen using inkjet printing technology, and is the first model at this size with 8K resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. It uses - ultra-high-precision” inkjet printing technology. Ultra-high Precision Inkjet Printing Technology for display manufacturing uses method such as PI alignment layer coating, liquid crystal coating, micro lens for back light, black bezel. The conventional printing accuracy of the inkje...