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| Video Friday: Droneboarding, RoboCoaster, and AI Video Competition Posted: 05 Feb 2016 09:15 AM PST  Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos  |
| A Former Nest Engineer Sees a Gap Between Indigogo and Best Buy—and Fills it With B8ta Posted: 05 Feb 2016 09:00 AM PST  A new way to sell high tech hardware debuts in Palo Alto, Calif.  |
| Google Wants Its Driverless Cars to Be Wireless Too Posted: 05 Feb 2016 07:00 AM PST  The budding carmaker is investigating technology for plugless recharging its EVs  |
| A Deep Learning AI Chip for Your Phone Posted: 04 Feb 2016 02:56 PM PST  A chip designed to run powerful neural networks for image analysis uses one-tenth the energy a mobile GPU would  |
| Cheap Cubic-Boron Nitride Could Enable Next Gen Smart Grid Posted: 04 Feb 2016 12:00 PM PST  High-power transistors and switches for the next-generation power grid could be a step closer  |
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| Latest Version of Gazebo Simulator Makes It Easier Than Ever to Not Build a Robot Posted: 04 Feb 2016 06:10 AM PST  The popular robotics simulator gets a bunch of new features  |
| New Materials Push Solar-to-Hydrogen Closer Posted: 04 Feb 2016 05:00 AM PST  Using the sun to change easy to store chemicals into usable hydrogen is getting more efficient  |
| Fusion Stellarator Wendelstein 7-x Fires Up for Real Posted: 03 Feb 2016 01:00 PM PST  Will stellarators outperform tokamaks one day?  |
| Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish Posted: 03 Feb 2016 11:00 AM PST  The innate speed limit of electrons in atoms could limit future optoelectronics  |
| To Respond to a Disease Outbreak, Bring in the Portable Genome Sequencers Posted: 03 Feb 2016 10:00 AM PST  Real-time genetic surveillance during the Ebola outbreak offers lessons for Zika virus response  |
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| Posted: 03 Feb 2016 06:00 AM PST Youtube User panthallion has installed Jasper on his HR-OS1 (with Raspberry Pi), and it’s pretty cool. The age of robotic personal assistance is upon us. Jasper is an open source platform for developing voice-controlled applications, similar to Siri, OK Google, Cortana, and so on. In this case, Jasper is being used in conjunction with an HR-OS1 to make a robot that can assist you with daily tasks, answer questions, tell a joke, and generally be responsive and helpful when given a voice command. It’s interesting to see the HR-OS1 physically reacting to the content it is delivering (it genuinely seems frustrated with one of the questions asked of it). Very clever!  |
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| MIT Team Tops Hyperloop Competition Posted: 03 Feb 2016 06:00 AM PST  Their pod design floats on magnets and moves very fast; but if they build it, will passengers come?  |
| World's First Single-Atom Optical Switch Fabricated Posted: 02 Feb 2016 12:00 PM PST  Plasmonics enable wavelengths of light to shrink to the nanometer scale  |
| Coding Without a Net at Yahoo, Part Two Posted: 02 Feb 2016 10:00 AM PST  Yahoo's chief architect answers a few questions about the company's move to eliminate QA  |
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| Driverless Dutch Bus Takes Passengers on Public Test Posted: 02 Feb 2016 09:00 AM PST  A robot shuttle bus carrying six passengers and no driver conducted its first trial run  |
| Military Tests Robo-Parachute Delivery Needing No GPS Posted: 02 Feb 2016 06:00 AM PST  The U.S. Army is testing supply airdrops that can guide themselves based on ground images rather than GPS  |
| Graphene Cages Cover Silicon Anodes for High Capacity Batteries Posted: 01 Feb 2016 01:00 PM PST  Graphene coating reduces cracking of silicon-based anodes in Li-ion batteries  |
| Rocketeer Frank Malina’s Life as an Artist Posted: 01 Feb 2016 12:00 PM PST  Historian W. Patrick McCray tracks down Malina's kinetic sculpture Cosmos to a locked storage room in Oxford  |
| Study: DNA Test Agreements Disregard Consumer Privacy Posted: 01 Feb 2016 10:00 AM PST  Most borrow the boilerplate used in standard "clickwrap" e-commerce contracts, but few prevent a customer's data from being sold—or the terms of the contract from being amended without notice.  |
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| New Product – Lithium Ion Battery and Charger Posted: 01 Feb 2016 09:03 AM PST
In the process of making robots more accessible, sometimes a technology that has been around for a while presents itself to us in a new light. For many years, all of the Trossen Robotics mobile robot kits have come with Lithium Polymer (LiPo) batteries. LiPo batteries are fantastic for their energy density, meaning that they give you the most run time for your robot for the weight of the battery. They are admittedly not the easiest battery to work with, having to make sure that the voltage isn’t too low, but they are fantastic for experienced users. To help remove the experience barrier for those new to robotics, and to offer those that are experienced an option that is easy to manage but still powerful, we now carry a Lithium Ion Battery! This battery operates at 7.4V, which works very well with RobotGeek Servos, and has a capacity of 4400mAh. It comes with a charger that features over-voltage protection, and the battery itself has built in under-voltage protection, making sure that the battery is safe and easy to use. This battery is a perfect pairing for a Geekbot, or if you would like to take a RobotGeek Snapper Arm on the go!  |
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| DC Boost Converter circuit 3.3-5v to 12V-13.8V Posted: 01 Feb 2016 02:55 AM PST This is DC boost converter circuit that can use 3.3V to 5V power supply source into DC 12V-13.8V output max current 100mA. It is switching circuit better than old circuit. You can increase low voltage battery to high voltage load as you need with high efficiency My son bought LED light Bulb a few days ago. As Figure 1. It is cheap and supper bright. It is used for 12V power supply only. But he does not know its power consumption. Thus, he want to measure the it’s current. Figure 1 LED light Bulb for car He use the ammeter to measure current of the LED as Figure 2 circuit diagram and Figure 3 real measuring current. Figure 2 measuring The post DC Boost Converter circuit 3.3-5v to 12V-13.8V appeared first on Electronic projects circuits.  |
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| Swiss Considering $3.4 Billion Cargo Tunnel for Automated Delivery Trucks Posted: 01 Feb 2016 07:00 AM PST  Goods zipping along underground in little robot cars would clear trucks off of congested Swiss roads  |
| Dutch Police Training Eagles to Take Down Drones Posted: 01 Feb 2016 01:17 AM PST  Attack eagles are training to become part of the Dutch National Police anti-drone arsenal  |
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