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Researchers have added to an octopus-like robot that can zoom through water with ultra-quick impetus and increasing speed at no other time seen in human made submerged vehicles. Most quick amphibian creatures are smooth and thin to help them move effortlessly through the water however cephalopods, for example, the octopus, are fit for fast escapes by filling their bodies with water and after that rapidly ousting it to dash away. Motivated by this, researchers manufactured a deform able octopus like robot with a 3 dimensional printed skeleton without moving parts and energy storage, other than a dainty flexible external body.

The robot utilizes a best in class service stage called Care-O-bot 3 and works inside a savvy home environment.

Dr Farshid Amirabdollahian, a senior instructor in Adaptive Systems at  University, drove a group of nine accomplice institutions from over five European nations as part of  €4,825,492 task called ACCOMPANY (Acceptable Robotics Companions for Aging Years).

In the course of recent years the undertaking group effectively completed an extensive variety of studies in the University's Robot House which included, locating the action and status of individuals in a brilliant home environment and in addition concentrating on robots' capacity to recollect and review.

Improvements climaxed into three collaboration situations, which were accordingly assessed by including elderly individuals and their formal/casual carers crosswise over France, the Netherlands and the UK.

Go hand in hand with's results showed that a social robot can possibly help to anticipate disengagement and forlornness, offering empowering exercises whilst regarding self-rule and freedom. The task got "superb results" from its last audit in Brussels.

Dr Amirabdollahian said that This task demonstrated the attainability of having sidekick innovation, while additionally highlighting distinctive essential angles, for example, compassion, feeling, social brainpower and in addition morals and its standard encompassing innovation for free living.

individuals envision robots today as cumbersome, metal variants of people, however researchers are producing new region in the field of Soft robotics. One of the most recent advances is an adaptable, minute hand-like gripper. The improvement could help specialists perform remotely guided surgical strategies or perform biopsies. The materials additionally could some time or another convey remedial medications to hard-to-achieve places. The report shows up in the journal Applied Materials & Interfaces.

David H. Gracias and partners note that numerous automated devices oblige lines to give force to create their developments. Be that as it may ropes add to the greater part of robots, which confines the spaces they can get to. To address this imperative, researchers have turned to hydrogels. These delicate materials can swell in light of changes in temperature, corrosiveness or light, giving vitality to complete errands without being fastened to a force source. Nonetheless, hydrogels are excessively floppy for a few applications, so the gathering consolidated the hydrogels with a firm biodegradable polymer, making the microhands sufficiently solid to wrap around and evacuate cells. The group then looked for an approach to control where the grippers go once conveyed in the body.

The analysts consolidated attractive nanoparticles in the materials so they could control the microhands with an attractive test. The group reasoned that this included characteristic could help in the microassembly or microengineering of delicate or organic parts, or give specialists the capacity to remotely immediate where biopsies are taken. Likewise, Gracias says that the utilization of delicate materials highlights the likelihood of making biodegradable, scaled down surgical instruments that can securely break up in the body (Watch a feature of the grippers).

Robotics and exactness agriculture furnish makers with effective instruments to enhance the aggressiveness of their homesteads. Robots like the one we are creating inside this undertaking won't substitute the vine cultivator, yet will encourage their work, so they can dodge the hardest part in field. It has a few preferences including the capacity to foresee grape generation or its level of readiness to quickly evaluate its quality without touching it,  say's Javier Tardaguila, project manager & specialist at the University of La Rioja, and Francisco Rovira, analyst at the Agricultural Robotics Laboratory of the UPV.

Also, Rovira clarifies that a guarantee impact, yet positive for Europe, is the appeal of the application of new innovations in the field like robotics, accuracy agribusiness and data advancements  for adolescent ranchers, "as the high normal period of agriculturists is a repeating matter of concern in industrialized nations."

Inside the task meeting held at the UPV, the scientists exhibited the first robot model on which they have been working for a year. The robot incorporates a fundamental security circuit with numerous crisis switches and a guard that stops the robot at any deterrent. The main working year has been centered on two areas: on one side, the robot's portability in the field, enhancing the suspension and traction frameworks to move up slants with weeds; and in the other side, the advancement and change of the distinctive sensors that will be incorporated in the robot.

The difficulties for the following year are to give the robot the self-sufficiency to securely drive between the vineyard lines utilizing stereoscopic vision, coordinating a side cam which will give data about the vegetation status of the plants and conceivable groups; furthermore the coupling of the sensors on the robot.

The venture is subsidized with more than two million euros by the ICT-Robotics call of the seventh Framework Program of the European Union and it will close toward the end of 2016.

Robots figure out how to utilize kitchen devices by viewing Youtube features

agine having an individual robot set up your breakfast each morning. Presently, envision that this robot didn't require any encourage making sense of how to make the ideal omelet, in light of the fact that it realized all the vital steps by viewing features on Youtube. It may sound like sci-fi, however a group at the University of Maryland has quite recently made a huge leap forward that will bring this situation one stage closer to reality.

Scientists at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies joined forces with a researcher at the National Information Communications Technology Research Center of Excellence in Australia to create robotic system that have the capacity show themselves. Particularly, these robots have the capacity take in the mind boggling getting a handle on and control developments needed for cooking by viewing web cooking features. The key achievement is that the robots can "think" for themselves, deciding the best blend of watched movements that will permit them to proficiently fulfill a given errand.

The work will be exhibited on Jan. 29th 2015, at the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference in Austin, Texas. The specialists attained to this turning point by consolidating methodologies from three different exploration regions: counterfeit consciousness, or the outline of machines that can settle on their own choices; machine vision, or the building of frameworks that can precisely recognize shapes and developments; and regular dialect handling, or the advancement of powerful frameworks that can comprehend talked orders. Despite the fact that the fundamental work is intricate, the group needed the results to reflect something down to earth and relatable to individuals' every day lives.

"We picked cooking videos on the grounds that everybody has done it and comprehends it," said by Yiannis Aloimonos, UMD teacher of software engineering and executive of the Computer Vision Lab 1 of 16 labs and concetrates in UMIACS. "At the same time cooking is mind boggling as far as control, the steps included and the instruments you utilize. In the event that you need to cut a cucumber, for instance, you have to snatch the blade, move it into spot, make the cut and watch the results to verify you did them legitimately."

Researchers found a new method to manufacture solar cells using less amount of silicon. Due to this new approach solar cells can be available at cheaper price.

By this approach we can save up to 90% of silicon with current standard. It also has advantages over traditional manufacturing process of solar that is expensive and laborious.

The developed solar cells are comprised of silicon fibers coated in glass. Silicon core is placed into a glass tube of 30mm in diameter. And this is heated up so that the silicon melts and the glass softens. Then this tube is stretched in to a thin glass fire filled with silicon. This whole process of heating and stretching makes the fiber thinner 100 times thinner.

                                                               

      -Researchers from Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Researchers have develop a ultra-thin LCD screen that can activated without a power source resulting in compact and energy efficient to display the visual information.

As all of I know Liquid crystal displays are used in many applications from television screens to digital clocks and smart watches. In a traditional Liquid crystal displays the electrodes are inserted between the polarized glass plates and the electrodes passes the currents affecting the liquid crystals inside and changing accordingly the way they interact with polarized light.

The new display’s developed ditch the electrodes making the screen very much 

thinner and lesser energy requirements. Whenever an image is uploaded to the LCD screen through the flash of light no power is needed to keep that image further on the screen  because of the  so bi-stable displays draws power only whenever the image changes.

                                                  -Researchers from Hong Kong University

Researchers at the department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a power Inverter resulting in electric vehicles powerful, lighter and more efficient

Coming to the finer details of the inverter is wide band gap of the silicon carbide material having qualities superior to semiconductor materials. Advantages of wider band gap is that it can have higher inherent reliability, higher frequency of operation, lighter weight, higher temperature capabilities, higher power densities and overall efficiency.

Another important factor to be considered in these inverter design is it incorporates small capacitors in parallel for cooling purposes resulting in lower cost when compared to few brick type capacitors.

                              

                                 -Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientist from Tohoku University have developed a flat panel light out of carbon nano tubes. These flat panel lights having less power requirements of 0.1 watt for every hour operation which is 100 times better than the usual LED’s existing today. 

These scientist combined the mixture of liquid containing crystalline single walled carbon nanotube dispersed in an organic solvent combined with the surfactant chemical (soap-like chemical). Then they have painted these mixture on to the cathode or positive electrode and scratched the surface using sandpaper to form a light panel that is capable of producing a large stable and homogeneous emission’s with low power consumption.

                                                                                  

                                                          -Scientists from Tohoku University

Short Research news in technology field

World thinnest Electric generator

Researchers from Columbia and Gatech University developed world’s thinnest Electric generator.

They made observations of piezoelectricity and piezotronic effects in an atomically thin material called molybdenum disulfide that resulted in a electric generator and optically transparent mechano sensation devices.

Observed properties: extremely light, bendable, stretchable.

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Ultra-fast charging batteries

Scientist develop a new battery that can be charged 70% within 2 minutes.

Having long lifespan around 20 years

Scientists replace the graphite anode of the lithium ion battery with a titanium dioxide gel material.

Scientists have made this titanium dioxide particles into tiny nano tubes that are thousand times thinner than human hair. And this nano structure helps in speeding up the chemical reactions in the new battery resulting in faster charging.

Developed by associate professor Chen Xiaodong, School of material science and engineering and at NTU Singapore.

Brain surgery by the Robot

Vanderbilt engineers developed a robot that can be used in treating the area near hippocampus.

The prototype developed by them is a 1.14mm nickel-titanium needle that operates like a pencil, with concentric tubes and some of the tubes are curved and this allows to follow a curved path in to brain. The metal used in this robot is compatible with MRI’s. Using compression of air robotic platform steers controllably and advance 1mm at a time.

And this found to be having accuracy of the system in the laboratory is better than 1.18 mm, sufficient for efficient operation.

Noble Prize has been awarded in physics for inventing efficient blue led.

Using this new blue led invention white light can be created, Red and green led are invented three decades but invention of blue led has finally done.

The Led lamps olds a great promise fro increasing power saving capabilities from the conventional uses over 1.5 billion people.

The difficulty in inventing blue led is the growing layer material to emit shorter wavelength to produce blue light.

                                                 Invented by Isamu Akasaki, Meijo University.

New Record setup for silicon quantum computing

Two research teams working on silicon quantum computing in University of New South Wales.

This teams found out the two different solutions to a critical challenge resulting in the realization of super powerful quantum computers. This teams created two types of quantum bits (quantum bits are building blocks of computers) and these bits process with an accuracy 99%.                                                                           -Two teams of University of New South Wales