Festo – Bionic Learning Network

Posted on November 13, 2021November 13, 2021 by 41629066

Bionic Learning Network is a research initiative established by the German control and automation company Festo, in collaboration with universities, institutes, and other companies. The definition of the term bionics precisely summarizes the objective of the network: application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. https://youtu.be/VOqpGkuZrV4 The Bionic Learning Network has developed many other fa...

Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick

Posted on November 7, 2021November 7, 2021 by 41629066

Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick is a modular artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator in a standard USB 3.0 stick form factor. Designed for product developers, researchers and makers, the Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick aims to reduce barriers to developing, tuning and deploying deep learning applications at the edge by delivering dedicated high-performance deep neural network processing. Intel’s Neural Compute Stick is a USB-thumb-drive-sized deep learning machine. NCS is a USB p...

BCI technology – Brain–Computer Interface

Posted on October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 by 41629066

BCI technology allows a human brain and an external device to talk to one another—to exchange signals. It gives humans the ability to directly control machines, without the physical constraints of the body. A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a neural control interface (NCI), mind–machine interface (MMI), direct neural interface (DNI), or brain–machine interface (BMI), is a direct communication pathway between an enhanced or wired brain and an external device. BCIs are oft...

‘Openrg’ – Open Research Group -experts leverage their experience from open-science, open-data, and open-source projects to provide support packages and modeling services to businesses and government.

Posted on July 6, 2021July 6, 2021 by 41629066

OpenRG experts provide support packages and modeling services to business and government. As a public benefit corporation, our mission is to promote the growth of open modeling and to benefit the open-source, open data, and open science ecosystem. It publishes various reports example - Revenue and Distributional Impacts of the American Rescue Plan Act The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provides over half a trillion dollars in tax benefits to Americans. We illustrate how the A...

‘Lambdalabs.com’ – Custom workstations built for deep learning.

Posted on May 23, 2021May 23, 2021 by 41629066

Custom workstations built for deep learning. Pre-installed with Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, easily upgrade with Lambda Stack. Built by A.I. Researchers. Every computer comes with Lambda Stack, which includes frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch. Lambda Stack makes upgrading these frameworks easy. https://youtu.be/fI3gvaX1crY Lambda GPU Cloudfor Deep Learning Train the most demanding AI, ML, and Deep Learning models. Scale from a single machine to an entire fleet of VMs with a f...

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Posted on April 4, 2021April 4, 2021 by 41629066

Artificial general intelligence is the hypothetical ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can. It is a primary goal of some artificial intelligence research and a common topic in science fiction and futures studies. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is an emerging field aiming at the building of “thinking machines”; that is, general-purpose systems with intelligence comparable to that of the human mind (and perhaps ultimately well...

Tianjic chip – a novel brain-inspired computing chip

Posted on April 4, 2021April 4, 2021 by 41629066

Professor Luping Shi in the Center for Brain-Inspired Computing Research, in the Department of Precision Instrument, published an important research result --- Tianjic, a novel brain-inspired computing chip. This chip is the world’s first hybrid-paradigm chip for brain-inspired computing to facilitate the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). the development of AGI mainly has two approaches: computer-science-oriented and neuroscience-oriented. Both have their own...

The Aga Khan University – Innovation Centre.

Posted on March 28, 2021March 28, 2021 by 41629066

AKU - Innovation Centre (Nairobi, Kenya) Launched in 2019, The Innovation Centre, based in Nairobi was established under the Futures Project as a result of partnership between DW Akademie (DWA) and Graduate School of Media and Communication, Aga Khan University (GSMC, AKU). The Innovation center will be an innovation hub for media innovators who would like a space to develop their ideas into reality. The center was set up to offer a hub for media practitioner, students and acade...

SRILAB – Experts in machine learning and formal reasoning with applications to safe artificial intelligence, probabilistic and quantum programming, AI-driven coding, security and others

Posted on March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 by 41629066

The Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab (SRI) is a research group in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and part of the ETH ICE center. We work at the broad intersection of machine learning and formal reasoning with applications to safe artificial intelligence, probabilistic and quantum programming, AI-driven coding, security and others. Our work led to three ETH spin-offs: DeepCode.ai, ChainSecurity, and LatticeFlow. Research List Safe and Interpretable Artificial...

DetectED-X Launches Free Image-based COVID-19 Diagnosis Improvement Tool

Posted on March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 by 41629066

The Sydney start-up DetectED-X has directed its breast cancer diagnosis tool at the coronavirus, drawing on pandemic cases globally with support from healthcare and industry leaders to ramp up COVID-19 detection. The only online image-based COVID-19 diagnosis improvement tool for healthcare workers is launched by University of Sydney spinoff DetectED-X, drawing on its global experience and outcomes in breast cancer detection and patient cases from the coronavirus pandemic. De...

Neurophotometrics – makes fiber photometry systems for academic & industrial use.

Posted on March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 by 41629066

NEUROPHOTOMETRICS IS A SCIENTIST-RUN FIBER PHOTOMETRY COMPANY DEDICATED TO MAKING HIGH-QUALITY OPTICAL EQUIPMENT FOR OUR SCIENTIFIC COLLEAGUES IN ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY. Fiber photometry is an imaging method used to monitor fluorescent signals via an implanted fiber optic cannula. Although it is still invasive, the diameter of the cannula is thinner than an endoscope. Therefore, fiber photometry is well-suited to monitor neural population activity in deep tissue, such as the brainstem. ...

‘Neurochip’ -Naweed Syed -Pakistani Canadian – First neuroscientists to prove the feasibility of connecting neurons to a chip. (over 30 years ago)

Posted on March 20, 2021March 20, 2021 by 41629066

A neurochip is an integrated circuit chip (such as a microprocessor) that is designed for interaction with neuronal cells. Neurochip that can sense the electrical activity of the neurons (action potentials) in the above-standing physiological electrolyte solution. It also contains capacitors for the electrical stimulation of the neurons. The University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine scientists led by Pakistani-born Canadian scientist Naweed Syed who proved it is possible to cultivate a netw...

InTechOpen – global publisher of Journals and Books within the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Built by scientists, for scientists.

Posted on February 20, 2021February 20, 2021 by 41629066

IntechOpen, the world's leading publisher of Open Access books - Built by scientists, for scientists provides a collaborative environment for peer-reviewed scientific content and book publishing of academic research, giving scientific thinking its home. It offers to Read, share and download more than 5,200 peer-reviewed Open Access books It's community, consisting of more than 118,000 like-minded IntechOpen Authors and Academic Editors, was founded for scientists, by scientists. It's Auth...

‘Flavonoids’ provide good health benefits

Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 by 41629066

Flavonoids are a group of plant metabolites thought to provide health benefits through cell signalling pathways and antioxidant effects. These molecules are found in a variety of fruits and vegetables. Flavonoids are polyphenolic molecules containing 15 carbon atoms and are soluble in water. These natural products are well known for their beneficial effects on health and efforts are being made to isolate the ingredients so called flavonoids. Flavonoids are now considered as an indispensa...

Neural Processing Unit (NPU)

Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 by 41629066

A neural processor or a neural processing unit (NPU) is a specialized circuit that implements all the necessary control and arithmetic logic necessary to execute machine learning algorithms, typically by operating on predictive models such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) or random forests (RFs) In Brain - Neural processes is the one that drive coordinated movement, attention, perception, reasoning, and intelligent behavior result from learning and memory. So the computational mechan...

University Of Pennsylvania’s researcher Mohsen Azadi and his team levitate object using light.

Posted on February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 by 41629066

At University of Pennsylvania in the mechanical engineer Igor Bargatin’s lab, Mohsen Azadi and his team were able to successfully demonstrate levitation of an object using light. Team built a "nanocardboard,” a material that’s as thin as a few strands of DNA and weighs less than a thousandth of a gram, but stiff enough to resist flopping for levitation. Crookes radiometer - also known as a light mill, the instrument is essentially a glass bulb under partial vacuum with paper vanes that are b...

‘3D Bioprinting’ – use bioink to print living structures.

Posted on January 30, 2021January 30, 2021 by 41629066

3D Bioprinting is a form of additive manufacturing that uses cells and other biocompatible materials as “inks”, also known as bioinks, to print living structures layer-by-layer which mimic the behavior of natural living systems. Three dimensional bioprinting is the utilization of 3D printing–like techniques to combine cells, growth factors, and biomaterials to fabricate biomedical parts that maximally imitate natural tissue characteristics. 3D bioprinting can be used to reconstruct tissue...

Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy systems – allowing us to gain new insights about many-body quantum kinetics

Posted on January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 by 41629066

Terahertz spectroscopy detects and controls properties of matter with electromagnetic fields that are in the frequency range between a few hundred gigahertz and several terahertz (abbreviated as THz). Terahertz (THz) represents the portion of the electromagnetic radiation between the microwave and the infrared region. Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy systems are widely employed to retrieve the chemical and material composition of a sample. This is single-handedly the most important driving mo...

‘Genomelink’ – personal discovery tool to help you understand who you are genetically.

Posted on January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 by 41629066

Genomelink is raw DNA data upload site that provides reports of potential of genomics and the role it will play in our lives over the coming years. Genomelink uses your existing raw DNA data from services like AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, and 23andMe to give you additional insights into your DNA. The list of genetic traits that Genomelink examines is constantly expanding and is based on the latest scientific research. Genomelink analyzes your genetic traits by connecting your raw DNA data...

Hair Science

Posted on January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 by 41629066

Initially, hair is white. It gets its natural color from a type of pigment called melanin. The formation of melanin begins before birth. The natural color of our hair depends upon the distribution, type and amount of melanin in the middle layer of the hair shaft or cortex. Hair has only two types of pigments: dark (eumelanin) and light (phaeomelanin). They blend together to make up the wide range of hair colors. Melanin is made up of specialized pigment cells called melanocytes. They posi...

Innovation Engineering THINK TANK & Academics

Posted on January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 by 41629066

Eureka! Ranch - Innovation Think Tank & Training Company It helps organizations innovate by filling their pipeline with exciting ideas improving their process to go faster and ship more training their people to think innovatively. It helps organization ideate and execute new ideas for growth in less than 30 days. It process is complete with customer feedback, prototyping, ROI and feasibility scoping. It accelerates development of a new concept into test market using our in-house R&...

Fudan University in Shanghai, China – COVID-19 diagnosis using machine-learning model based on ocular surface features

Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 by 41629066

The standard practices for screening patients with COVID-19 are the CT imaging or RT-PCR (real-time polymerase chain reaction) for testing viral nucleic acid, which is expensive and in need of professional equipment and waiting time. Fudan University in Shanghai, China has suggested a method that have shown that the COVID-19 patients are usually accompanied by ocular manifestations and constructed a machine-learning model based on ocular surface features and proposed a new screening method ...

IONS – Institute of Noetic Sciences. Explaining phenomena not previously understood using science.

Posted on December 20, 2020December 20, 2020 by 41629066

Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), leverages science to explain phenomena not previously understood, harnessing the best of the rational mind to make advances that further our knowledge and enhance our human experience. As scientists focused on what are common but not often understood phenomena, they are also aware of the vast historical records of wisdom practices that also speak to the mysteries and possibilities which allow us to access more of our human capacities. At IONS, scienti...

Precision medicine

Posted on December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 by 41629066

Precision medicine is an approach to patient care that allows doctors to select treatments that are most likely to help patients based on a genetic understanding of their disease. This may also be called personalized medicine. PrecisionMed, Inc PrecisionMed, Inc. offers vital products and services facilitating breakthroughs in genetics, drug discovery, biomarker research, and molecular diagnostics. They offer high quality, accurately annotated human biological material and are the largest...

DRAPER Laboratory – Innovation Partner that provides deep expertise to design, develop, and deploy advanced technology solutions

Posted on December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 by 41629066

Draper Laboratory is an American not-for-profit research and development organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; its official name is The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy. From whiteboard concept to fielded systems, Draper engineers design, develop and deploy advanced technology ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid briefly to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to Earth in 2023.

Posted on December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 by 41629066

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to Earth in 2023. This well-preserved, ancient asteroid, known as Bennu, is currently more than 200 million miles (321 million kilometers) from Earth. Bennu offers scientists a window into the early solar system as it was fir...

Supercomputers – Powering the next generation of Industrial revolution

Posted on December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 by 41629066

A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS) https://youtu.be/oegYLRXcw3o Innovative Computing Lab with the University of Tennessee Fugaku – exascale supercomputer, at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan. It's one of the top in performance in c...

Tohoku University – wearable sensors for detecting viruses and bacteria in the surrounding environment

Posted on November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 by 41629066

Scientists at Tohoku University have been studying materials that can change mechanical into electrical or magnetic energy, and vice versa, for decades. Together with colleagues, they published a review in the journal Advanced Materials about the most recent endeavours into using these materials to fabricate functional biosensors. Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical into electrical energy. Antibodies that interact with a specific virus can be placed on an electrode incorporated on...

Converting vibration energy to electrical energy

Posted on November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 by 41629066

Vibration powered generators usually consist of a resonator which is used to amplify the vibration source, and a transducer mechanism which converts the energy from the vibrations into electrical energy. The transducer usually consists of a magnet and coil or a piezoelectric crystal. Researchers at the University of Dayton are testing soft piezoelectric composites that show great promise as next-generation energy harvesting materials. Vibration Energy Harvesting - Omron Electronic Com...

Microsoft underwater datacenter

Posted on October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 by 41629066

The underwater datacenter concept splashed onto the scene at Microsoft in 2014 during ThinkWeek, an event that gathers employees to share out-of-the-box ideas. The concept was considered a potential way to provide lightning-quick cloud services to coastal populations and save energy. More than half the world’s population lives within 120 miles of the coast. By putting datacenters underwater near coastal cities, data would have a short distance to travel, leading to fast and smooth web surfin...