Category Archives: Engineering
Notes on “MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors”
From: http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/moneta-a-mind-made-from-memristors/0 Researchers have suspected for decades that real artificial intelligence can’t be done on traditional hardware, with its rigid adherence to Boolean logic and vast separation between memory and processing. But that knowledge was of little use until about
Notes on “MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors”
From: http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/moneta-a-mind-made-from-memristors/0 Researchers have suspected for decades that real artificial intelligence can’t be done on traditional hardware, with its rigid adherence to Boolean logic and vast separation between memory and processing. But that knowledge was of little use until about
A Fly-Eye Inspired Speed Sensor
Notes on IEEE Spectrum Magazine Article “Lugano-based Vissee has developed a sensor that takes a fundamentally new approach to measuring speed. Vissee’s speed sensor, dubbed “Third Eye,” is a neuromorphic processor modeled on the motion detection system of the fruit
A Fly-Eye Inspired Speed Sensor
Notes on IEEE Spectrum Magazine Article “Lugano-based Vissee has developed a sensor that takes a fundamentally new approach to measuring speed. Vissee’s speed sensor, dubbed “Third Eye,” is a neuromorphic processor modeled on the motion detection system of the fruit
Electroactive polymers
Electroactive polymers definition from wikipedia: Electroactive Polymers, or EAPs, are polymers that exhibits a change in size or shape when stimulated by an electric field. The most common applications of this type of material are in actuators and sensors. A
Electroactive polymers
Electroactive polymers definition from wikipedia: Electroactive Polymers, or EAPs, are polymers that exhibits a change in size or shape when stimulated by an electric field. The most common applications of this type of material are in actuators and sensors. A
Ammono Gallium Nitride
From “The World’s Best Gallium Nitride” article Figure out a cost efective way to make really good, reasonably large crystals of pure gallium nitride. With such crystals as the foundation for the growth of devices made of the same material,
Ammono Gallium Nitride
From “The World’s Best Gallium Nitride” article Figure out a cost efective way to make really good, reasonably large crystals of pure gallium nitride. With such crystals as the foundation for the growth of devices made of the same material,
Field-programmable gate array
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by the customer or designer after manufacturing—hence “field-programmable”.
Field-programmable gate array
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by the customer or designer after manufacturing—hence “field-programmable”.
Who knew bacteria could be good robots?
IEEE Spectrum: Computer-Controlled Swarm of Bacteria Builds Tiny Pyramid Researchers at the NanoRobotics Laboratory of the École Polytechnique de Montréal, in Canada, are putting swarms of bacteria to work, using them to perform micro-manipulations and even propel microrobots. Led by
Who knew bacteria could be good robots?
IEEE Spectrum: Computer-Controlled Swarm of Bacteria Builds Tiny Pyramid Researchers at the NanoRobotics Laboratory of the École Polytechnique de Montréal, in Canada, are putting swarms of bacteria to work, using them to perform micro-manipulations and even propel microrobots. Led by
HI-MEMS or Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
IEEE Spectrum: Cyborg Moth Gets a New Radio Research reported this week advances the goal of turning insects into unmanned aerial vehicles CYBER-MOTH Electrodes and a control chip are inserted into a moth during its pupal stage. When the moth
HI-MEMS or Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
IEEE Spectrum: Cyborg Moth Gets a New Radio Research reported this week advances the goal of turning insects into unmanned aerial vehicles CYBER-MOTH Electrodes and a control chip are inserted into a moth during its pupal stage. When the moth
FTIR and MEMS Technology
FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) Technology FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) or FTS (Fourier Transform Spectroscopy) is a sensor technology based on the Michelson interferometer. Historically the Michelson interferometer consists of two flat mirrors located at 90° to each other with a
FTIR and MEMS Technology
FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) Technology FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) or FTS (Fourier Transform Spectroscopy) is a sensor technology based on the Michelson interferometer. Historically the Michelson interferometer consists of two flat mirrors located at 90° to each other with a
Free mind on "free space" 