Month: April 2018

A drone combined with a HoloLens can simulate X-ray vision while offering easy and intuitive control

See Straight Through Walls by Augmenting Your Eyeballs With Drones

Better-designed body cameras could improve the quality of evidence in cases of police use of force and potentially reduce the frequency of such interactions.
Calling for better police body cam design

Researchers have demonstrated that deep learning, a powerful form of artificial intelligence, can discern and enhance microscopic details in photos taken by smartphones. The technique improves the resolution and color details of smartphone images so much that they approach the quality of images from laboratory-grade microscopes.
Deep learning transforms smartphone microscopes into laboratory-grade devices

Rolling along at a cautious pace, a robot about the size of a milk jug maps its surroundings
Stanford students program autonomous robots that mimic self-driving cars

Hundreds of robotics events are taking place all over the country this week

Don't Forget, It's National Robotics Week!

Researchers have developed a robotic gripper that combines the adhesive properties of gecko toes and the adaptability of air-powered soft robots to grasp a much wider variety of objects than the state of the art.
Gecko-inspired adhesives help soft robotic fingers get a better grip

Using a tiny array of electrodes implanted in the brain’s somatosensory cortex, scientists have induced sensations of touch and movement in the hand and arm of a paralyzed man.
Paralyzed patient feels sensation again

Silent marine robots that record sounds underwater are allowing researchers to listen to the oceans as never before. While pilot whales make whistles, buzzes and clicks, pods of hunting dolphins create high-pitched echolocation clicks and larger species such as sperm whales make louder, slower clicks. As well as eavesdropping on marine life, the recordings can be used to measure sea-surface wind speed and monitor storms. The research will be presented at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna.
Silent marine robots record sounds underwater

An outdoor fly lab for testing autonomous aerial vehicles is open for use at the University of Michigan
M-Air autonomous aerial vehicle outdoor lab opens