Researchers at the Harvard have created an octopus-inspired soft robotic arm that can grip and manipulate objects, learning that the taper of such arms is important. “Most previous research on octopus-inspired robots focused either on mimicking the suction or the movement of the arm, but not both,” said researcher August Domel. “Our research is the first to ...
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An engineered substrate is the key to a stretchable OLED display built by Korean lab KAIST. Photo: the display bent over a fingerip The novel substrate is there to allow rigid pixels to be incorporated. “Traditional intrinsically stretchable OLEDs have commercial limitations due to their low efficiency in the electrical conductivity of the electrodes,” according ...
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U-blox has got Global Certification Forum (GCF) certification for its UBX-R5 multi-band LTE-M/NB-IoT chipset. Launched in January this year, the program is designed to certify IoT chipsets covering NB-IoT and LTE-M to allow the IoT ecosystem to integrate and embed certified chipsets into modules and devices. “We’re extremely pleased to have u-blox achieve the first certification ...
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Engineers at Columbia University have created a force-sensitive finger for robots that senses in all directions. “There has long been a gap between stand-alone tactile sensors and fully integrated tactile fingers – tactile sensing is still far from ubiquitous in robotic manipulation,” said researcher Matei Ciocarlie. “We have demonstrated a multi-curved robotic finger with accurate ...
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A LoRaWan network has been installed on Mount Etna in Sicily to allow scientists to monitor radon gas from their base in Clermont-Ferrand, 1,200km away. “For many years, scientists have measured radon in the soil of the 3,300m-high Etna, which required on-site visits,” according to Kerlink, whose radio equipment has been deployed. “A new system ...
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Alps Alpine is aiming at automotive use with a tact switch push button with 5N operating force and 1.04mm travel, adding it to its existing SKSU series. “As an automobile safety consideration, input switches inside vehicles are increasingly integrated into the steering wheel area for drivers to operate without taking their eyes off the road,” ...
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Menta and Secure-IC are to add cryptographic features to FPGA intellectual property (IP). Under the agreement, announced at Embedded World in Nuremberg, the companies will deliver Menta eFPGAs incorporating cryptographic IP including AES and RSA from Secure-IC. “Security is fast becoming a defining feature of SoCs used in a variety of applications,” said Secure-IC CTO ...
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TDK-Lambda has introduced 600W 3 x 5in open-frame mains PSUs with efficiencies of up to 96%. Called CUS600M, the ac-dc supplies are certified to medical and ITE (information technology equipment) standards for Class I and II (no earth ground connection) operation and are aimed at professional applications such as healthcare, dental, test, measurement, broadcast, audio and ...
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A diffuser moved randomly over a sample can be the basis of a computational microscope, according to researchers at the University of Connecticut. Lensless computational microscopy is not new – Horiba and French research lab Leti revealed one a couple of years ago. A disadvantage is that a lot of computing power is needed to reverse-engineer diffraction patterns ...
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Working toward automotive security, Samsung has produced a ‘physically unclonable function’ (PUF) for secure crypto key generation. PUFs are blocks within chips whose characteristics only manifest when powered. They are inherently and unpredictably randomised by process variation as they are made, in a way that makes each chip uncontrollably unique, but once manufactured the characteristic ...
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