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Robots to Clean Ship Hulls
Published on 19 Sep 2008 at 12:41 am.
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European researchers are working on an EU-funded project called HISMAR (Hull Identification System for Marine Autonomous Robotics) to develop a robotic hull cleaning system to remove marine growth from ships. Marine growth significantly increases the friction of a ship moving through water, which significantly increases the cost in terms of energy. In addition, marine growth […]
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Making Things Talk
Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 2:20 am.
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Filed under Coding, Entrepreneurship, Evolution, Exploration, Fun, Gadgets, Information, Intelligent Systems, Internet, Inventions, Research, Robotics, Technology.
Looking back, I am surprised at how electronics has quietly advanced to the point where we can buy small programmable computers on chips for a dollar or two. These are microcontrollers of course, and in my lab we are working on programming them to handle the tedious tasks in our robotics projects.
At makezine.com, I stumbled on this gem of […]
Five Questions for Dean Kamen
Published on 29 Mar 2008 at 12:15 pm.
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The current issue of the IEEE Spectrum Insider has a video interview with Dean Kamen founder of DEKA Research (and inventor of the segway, iBOT, and founder of the FIRST robotics competitions). He answers five questions on the future of robotics, the hype surrounding the segway, and education.
Watch Dean Kamen’s interview here.
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Vapor Compression Distiller
Published on 21 Mar 2008 at 10:13 pm.
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Dean Kamen, an engineer was on The Colbert Report last night discussion his latest invention: the Vapor Compression Distiller. This device takes dirty or salinated water and produces clean fresh water. The distiller is produced by Dean Kamen’s engineering compand Deka Research, and they are aiming to distribute it world-wide to help solve ongoing and […]
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 1:50 pm.
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The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association aims to provide one laptop to every school-age child in the developing countries of the world with the goal of improving education around the world. The program was developed by Nicholas Negroponte who was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory. His goal was to develop a $100 […]
