Samsung Electronics today announced that it has commenced mass production of System-on-Chip (SoC) products with 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET technology for which would make it first in the industry. Following the successful mass production of the industry’s first FinFET mobile application processor (AP) in January, 2015, Samsung extends its leadership in delivering leading-edge process technology to the mass market with […]
Scientists Simplify Model For Human Behavior In Automation
Human unpredictability is a problem in the automated human-machine systems people use every day. Scientists from Nanjing Institute of Technology’s School of Automation in China and the University of California, Merced’s School of Engineering partnered to find a programming solution for erratic human behavior. “In a human-machine control system, the human operator participates in the control process,” […]
Wearable Robots Usher In Next Generation Of Mobility Therapies
Wearable robots that can anticipate and react to users’ movement in real time could dramatically improve mobility assistance and rehabilitation tools. Wearable robots are programmable body-worn devices, or exoskeletons, that are designed to mechanically interact with the user. Their purpose is to assist or even substitute human motor function for people who have severe difficulty […]
Software That Automatically Recognizes Surfaces Within Complex Three-Dimensional Images Can Benefit Petroleum Extraction
The deep cracking faults that lie within the Earth’s crust are significant geologic surfaces for oil exploration and earthquake prediction. A team from KAUST developed an algorithm that smoothly detects faults and other three-dimensional (3-D) surfaces with high computational efficiency even amid noisy and cluttered data sets. Identifying objects in images using geometric curves is […]
Fractional Order Modeling May Reduce Electric Car Drivers’ Battery Charge Anxiety
With rapidly diminishing fossil fuels, it’s not impossible to imagine a future of battery-powered cars. But to get there, scientists and engineers will have to solve a very important problem that affects drivers’ peace of mind as well as their safety: Knowing just how much charge is left on their battery while driving. A branch […]
Newly Launched Sensor System Could Turn Every Locomotive Into A Track Monitor
Railway experts at the University of Huddersfield Institute of Railway Research (IRR) are working with engineering giant Siemens to develop an inexpensive and easily-fitted sensor that could turn virtually every rail vehicle into a track monitor, detecting and transmitting vital information about the condition of rails and rail bed throughout the network. The result would […]
Medical Delivery Drones Take Flight Over Rwanda
“Three, two, one, launch!” And with that, catapulted from a ramp, the small fixed-wing drone buzzes into the air towards its pre-programmed destination, the Kabgayi hospital two kilometres away. On Friday Rwanda inaugurated a drone operation that its backers hope will kickstart a revolution in the supply of medical care in rural parts of Africa, […]
Scientists Create ‘Floating Pixels’ Using Soundwaves And Force Fields
A mid-air display of ‘floating pixels’ has been created by scientists. Researchers at the Universities of Sussex and Bristol have used soundwaves to lift many tiny objects at once before spinning and flipping them using electric force fields. The technology – called JOLED – effectively turns tiny, multi-coloured spheres into real-life pixels, which can form […]
New Method For Making Green Leds Enhances Their Efficiency And Brightness
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign have developed a new method for making brighter and more efficient green light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Using an industry-standard semiconductor growth technique, they have created gallium nitride (GaN) cubic crystals grown on a silicon substrate that are capable of producing powerful green light for advanced solid-state lighting. […]
Klimt’s ‘Kiss’, Made With 3D Printer, To Touch And Feel
Like most artworks in galleries worldwide, visitors haven’t been allowed to reach out and touch Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” at its home at the Belvedere museum in Vienna—until now. On Wednesday a special three-dimensional version of the masterpiece was unveiled, aimed at enabling the visually impaired to enjoy the work by running their fingers over […]