Medical News
Development of Humanoid Robot Prototype, HRP-5P, Capable of Heavy Labor
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 17:00
News Researchers have developed a humanoid robot prototype, HRP-5P, intended to autonomously perform heavy labor or work in hazardous environments... Contributed Author: Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Topics:...
How NASA Will Know When InSight Touches Down
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 18:43
News What's the sound of a touchdown on Mars? If you're at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it sounds like winning the Super Bowl: cheers, laughter and lots of hollering. But in the minutes before that, NASA's... Contri...
Artificial Intelligence May Fall Short When Analyzing Data Across Multiple Health Systems
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 17:11
Article New findings suggest that AI in the medical space must be carefully tested for performance across a wide range of populations. Contributed Author: The Mount Sinai Hospital/Mount Sinai School of Medicine Topics: S...
Toward Urban Air Mobility: Air Taxis with Side-by-Side Rotors
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 17:00
Videos In this high-resolution visualization of NASA's side-by-side, intermeshing rotor air taxi concept, researchers are working to understand complex rotor air flow interaction... Contributed Author: NASA Topics: MIL/A...
New drug discovery could halt spread of brain cancer
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2018 09:00
(Virginia Tech) A team of researchers at Virginia Tech may have found a solution to stopping the spread of glioblastoma with a new drug and cancer treatment method. This work is part of a five-year research grant project...
Teens increasingly choose pot over alcohol, cigarettes
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2018 09:00
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) The 'gateway pattern' of adolescent substance use is changing, and marijuana is increasingly the first substance in the sequence of adolescent drug use. Traditional...
Mom's teeth tell her history of giving birth and raising babies in Asian black bears
EurekAlert! - 19 Nov 2018 09:00
(Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) Scientists from four Japanese institutions including Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) have discovered that width of surface layers coating tooth's roo...
NRL Demonstrates New Non-Mechanical Laser Steering Technology
Medical Design Technology - 20 Nov 2018 00:35
News Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recently demonstrated a new nonmechanical chip-based beam steering technology that offers an alternative to costly, cumbersome and often unreliable... Contribute...
Bending Light Around Tight Corners Without Backscattering Losses
Medical Design Technology - 20 Nov 2018 00:32
News Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a device that can direct photons of light around sharp corners with virtually no losses due to backscattering, a key property that will be needed if electronics... Cont...
Sprint Launches Black Friday Promo for New 'Drive' Connected Car Offering
Medical Design Technology - 20 Nov 2018 00:27
News Sprint looks to steer customers toward its new connected car product ahead of Black Friday, offering customers "Sprint Drive" for free as part of a holiday promotion that requires a 24-month installment plan and qua...
DC-DC Converter Targets Emerging Direct Conversion Market
Medical Design Technology - 20 Nov 2018 00:25
Product Announcement Flex Power Modules introduces its first generation of Direct Conversion products to address the growing need for higher energy efficiency levels in data center and cloud computing infrastructure. The...
Enabling Fabrication Beyond 7nm
Medical Design Technology - 20 Nov 2018 00:09
News How did we get from the Palm Pilots of the 90s to the ultra-powerful smart phones of today? In large part, because of scaling, where integrated circuits are made with smaller feature sizes fitting more and more.. Co...
Combining Real, Virtual Worlds Improves Driverless Vehicle Testing
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 23:27
News Augmented reality technology can accelerate testing of connected and automated vehicles by 1,000 to 100,000 times, and reduce additional testing costs -- beyond the price of physical vehicles--to almost... Contribut...
IMU Integration to Optical Motion Capture Systems
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 20:11
Product Announcement Qualisys launched its first inertial measurement unit (IMU) integration technology. By partnering with leading vendors, Qualisys can now provide effortless synchronization between motion capture data...
Lunar Outpost Shows off New Moon Rover
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 20:06
News Space technology company Lunar Outpost has unveiled their new Lunar Prospector rover that will explore the surface of the moon to search for and map resources. The Lunar Prospector is designed to drill... Contribute...
Solution for Next Generation Nanochips Comes out of Thin Air
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 20:00
News Researchers at RMIT University have engineered a new type of transistor, the building block for all electronics. Instead of sending electrical currents through silicon, these transistors send electrons through... Co...
Cyber Force Looks to Grow with Boost to Electronic Warfare
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 19:55
News With the cyber domain expected to see constant battles in future warfare, Army leaders say new efforts are underway to strengthen the Army's cyber force so it can defend forward against adversaries... Contributed Au...
Engineers Use Game Theory to Quantify Threats of Cyberattacks on Power Grid
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 19:51
News Threat levels for cyberattacks on the power grid are usually labeled high, medium or low. Well, that's not good enough for a team of Iowa State University engineers. That's too qualitative and too subjective... Cont...
Implementing Successful LPWAN Solutions for Global Markets
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 19:47
Blog Now that the first mobile network operators have rolled out nation-wide LTE Cat M1 and NB-IoT communication networks, device manufacturers are busy developing solutions to meet emerging market demand... Contributed ...
Scientists Create Atomic Scale, 2-D Electronic Kagome Lattice
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 19:31
News Scientists from the University of Wollongong (UOW), working with colleagues at China's Beihang University, Nankai University, and Institute of Physics at Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully created... Con...
Driver Amplifier Operates with High Gain and High Linearity
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 18:58
Product Announcement Custom MMIC has just released the CMD291, a new wideband Driver Amplifier MMIC. The CMD291 is a wideband GaAs MMIC driver amplifier die which operates from 16 to 24 GHz. The CMD291 delivers... Contri...
Error Correction in the Quantum World
Medical Design Technology - 19 Nov 2018 18:53
News Sebastian Krinner is the first winner of the Lopez-Loreta Prize at ETH Zurich. The physicist has a clear goal: he wants to build a quantum computer that is not only powerful, but also works without errors... Contrib...