SlothBot, the slow but efficient robot, with a cunning mechanism

Georgia Tech is aiming at environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, and infrastructure maintenance with an aerial robot that trades speed for energy-efficiency. Called SlothBot, it is intended linger for months, hanging at height from a network of wires, measuring chemical concentrations or other parameters that can only be recorded by a long-term presence. Being wire-suspended allows ...

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Anglia to stock Mascot chargers and power supplies

Anglia has added battery chargers and power supplies to its product line up following its appointment as UK and Ireland distributor for Mascot. David Pearson, technical director at Anglia Components, commented “Mascot is a company with an outstanding pedigree in power supplies and we are proud to add their range. Mascot utilises cutting edge design ...

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CEVA buys Hillcrest Labs

CEVA has bought Hillcrest Labs, the sensor processing specialist,  from InterDigital. Hillcrest Labs specilises in the fusion of data from multiple sensors to enable intelligent systems. Hillcrest Labs’  MotionEngine software supports a broad range of merchant sensor chips and is licensed to OEMs and semiconductor companies that can run the software on CEVA DSPs or a ...

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Kontron buys Fujitsu’s German industrial motherboard business

Kontron has bought Fujitsu’s Augsburg-based industrial motherboard business from Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH. The transfer of the operational business from Fujitsu Technology Solutions to Kontron is planned to start in October. “The acquisition of the embedded motherboard business of Fujitsu Technology Solutions is a strategic step to expand these products with its own IoT software technology,” ...

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Hylec launches 5 pole screwless in line junction box

Hylec-APL has announced the launch of Debox SL2, a tool-free in-line junction box which comes complete with five approved lever connectors. Hylec claims Debox SL2 is the smallest junction box with five poles on the market and the only product supplied complete with 5 screw free terminals: each individual 32A lever connector can take up ...

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Guerilla brings out its first InGaP HBT PAs

Guerrilla RF has brought out its first two InGaP HBT power amplifier products. Both devices deliver 60% saturated efficiency, with high gain and high output power – making them ideal choices for the final stage of applicable transmit chains. GRF5504is a high efficiency power amplifier that delivers up to 3.5 W at Psat, with Vcc ...

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A STAR is born

The Shanghai Stock Exchange has opened a market for domestic tech firms called STAR. Share prices of the initial 25 companies in the STAR market soared earlier today with some rising over 500%. Every company in the STAR market more than doubled its opening share price. China has modeled the STAR market on the Nasdaq. ...

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Gou loses presidential primary

Foxconn founder and former chairman Terry Gou (pictured), Taiwan’s richest man, has lost his party’s  primary election to be the next president  of Taiwan. Gou resigned as chairman and CEO of Foxconn earlier this year to make his run for the presidency. Gou was looking to win the nomination of Taiwan’s opposition party Kuomintang (KMT) ...

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AI not yet smart enough to moderate on-line content

Ofcom asked Cambridge Consultants if AI can be used to moderate web content and the answer appears to be No. ‘Overall, it is not possible to fully automate effective content moderation. For the foreseeable future the input of human moderators will continue to be required to review highly contextual, nuanced content,’ says Cambridge Consultants’ report, ...

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