AxonVR’s HaptX system is an enormous metal box with some buttons and blinking lights. It’s very much a prototype. You put on a HTC Vive headset, stick your left hand into the box, and then experience the magic of a tiny virtual deer taking a warm and fluffy nap on your outstretched palm.
Millimeter waves, massive MIMO, full duplex, beamforming, and small cells are just a few of the technologies that could enable ultrafast 5G networks. Today’s mobile users want faster data speeds and more reliable service. The next generation of wireless networks—5G—promises to deliver that, and much more. With 5G, users should be able to download a high-definition film in under a second (a task that could take 10 minutes on 4G LTE). And wireless engineers say these networks will boost the development of other new technologies, too, such as autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, and the Internet of Things. If…
Flexible lenses and piezoelectric pistons in these smart glasses keep the world in focus.
The International Space Station will soon be getting some new robot occupants: Astrobee is a robotic cube packed with sensors, cameras, computers, and a propulsion system. It’s designed to help astronauts around the ISS with a variety of tasks.
These cars use deep learning to turn past experience into better decisions
In a live demo, a detector deploys direction-of-arrival sensing to alert users on board a superyacht to GPS spoofing.
Full duplex could double the capacity of wireless networks, making it a key technology for 5G
The Federal Aviation Administration is allowing PrecisionHawk to test a system for managing small drones beyond visual line of sight.
Engineers at NYU have built an AR app to operate robots in the real world.
This MIT robot can autonomously build a giant dome.
Flexible lenses and piezoelectric pistons in these smart glasses keep the world in focus.
High-frequency millimeter waves will greatly increase wireless capacity and speeds for future 5G networks.
Engineers at NYU have built an AR app to operate robots in the real world.
This small, nimble robot can fold and unfold itself.
A small team at Otherlab, which does all kinds of weird things, has been using ARPA-E funding to develop what they’re calling “thermally adaptive materials.” We’ll call it self-poofing fabric, for its ability to dynamically change its insulation in response to temperature. The idea is that the fabric will provide a small amount of insulation when it’s warm out, and then increase how insulating it is (by trapping more air) in response to colder temperatures. When you see the prototype fabric in action, it looks like magic.
At the Queensland University of Technology, in Australia, roboticists have spent the last 14 years honing a robot navigation system modeled on the brains of rats. This biologically inspired approach, they hope, could help robots navigate dynamic environments without requiring advanced, costly sensors and computationally intensive algorithms.
With an easy-to-use interface based on MIT’s Scratch, you can command Cozmo to do complex tasks without any programming experience.
The human neocortex learns and recognizes new songs with amazing efficiency.
The new JANUS acoustic signal will connect aquatic robots and sensors into an “Internet of Underwater Things”.
Salto-1P is a one-legged hopping robot built at UC Berkeley.