The 80-kg dummy stay secured in the bot while it was being lifted to the surface. (Image Credit: S.Thomas (Wasserwacht Halle) Many of Germany’s swimming pools have shut down due to the shortage of lifeguards. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute f...
AVNET's iotconnect.io cloud platform is an online service that you can use to send data to, and then show it on a dashboard*. In this blog series I'm learning how to talk to it with Node-RED.In this post: install the palette and test!. Install t...
AVNET's iotconnect.io cloud platform is an online service that you can use to send data to, and then show it on a dashboard*. In this blog series I'm learning how to talk to it with Node-RED.In this post: set up the device, rules, capabilities and se...
AVNET's iotconnect.io cloud platform is an online service that you can use to send data to, and then show it on a dashboard*. In this blog series I'm learning how to talk to it with Node-RED.In this post: create an evaluation account. Sign Up wi...
AVNET's iotconnect.io cloud platform is an online service that you can use to send data to, and then show it on a dashboard*. In this blog series I'm learning how to talk to it with Node-RED.In this post: what do I want to achieve, and what will I ne...
These tiny drones are made of soft actuators, making them resilient. They can artificially pollinate crops or complete a search-and-rescue mission. (Image Credit: MIT) Flying insects have proven to be incredibly acrobatic and resilient to our de...
Image showing concrete repairing itself. The left side was photographed when it cracked, and the right side shows the repair after 28 days. (Image Credit: Kanellopoulos et al.) In the future, tiny smart materials could repair cracks in concrete brid...
Dubai’s RoboCafé uses robots to serve customers. (Image Credit: RoboCafé) Guess I had the right idea with my drink mixing robot, the Drinkmotizer. Dubai’s RoboCafé is helping humans minimize contact during the pandemic. The RoboCafé,...
Nanoracks has recently signed a deal with the UAE to open a space farming research centre. The plan is to grow extremely resilient crops that could thrive in harsh environments on Earth. (Image Credit: Nanoracks) It’s like something out of the s...
Perseverance is set to land in the Martian Jezero Crater today (Feb 18). Expected around 3:55 pm EST. SUCCESS! It landed with no issues at all! The streams below will let you watch the landing as mission control saw it.First pictures are out. La...
The robotic Venus flytrap grasped a slowly-moving 1-gram weight. (Image Credit: W. Li et al./Nature Electronics 2021) Plants are now serving a purpose in the robotic world. Researchers at Nanyang Technological University have developed a robot g...
The SmartEdge IIOT GatewaySmartEdge IIOT Gateway is a Raspberry Pi 3 Compute based industrial Linux box.It runs Raspbian with some additions. There's a set of industrial hardware extensions. In this 2nd Node-RED blog I show the industrial I/O status ...
Hanson Robotics aim to sell thousands of robots, including their new model Grace, this year. Prepare to see a lot more of this humanoid robot this year. (Image credit: Hanson Robotics) Remember Sophia, the eerie humanoid robot who looked like an...
The SmartEdge IIOT GatewaySmartEdge IIOT Gateway is a Raspberry Pi 3 Compute based industrial Linux box.It runs Raspbian with some additions. There's a set of industrial hardware extensions. In this blog I revisit the industrial I/O. I create a Node-...
The 2020 Raspbian distribution for the AVNET SmartEdge IIOT Gateway uses systemd services to manage the hardware customisations.In this series, I review what they do, how they interact.Part 3 the IotConnect service, the core of the integration with A...
The Bluebots can autonomously synchronize their movements and can signal when to disperse, aggregate, and form a circle. The Bluebots are equipped with three LED lights and two cameras to have them navigate. (Image credit: Self-organizing Systems Res...
The 2020 Raspbian distribution for the AVNET SmartEdge IIOT Gateway uses systemd services to manage the hardware customisations.In this series, I review what they do, how they interact.Part 2: the led service, part of the functionality to control the...
The 2020 Raspbian distribution for the AVNET SmartEdge IIOT Gateway uses systemd services to manage the hardware customisations.In this post, I review what they do, how they interact.I'm trying to get some functional flow in this review: reveal the n...
The SmartEdge IIOT GatewaySmartEdge IIOT Gateway is a Raspberry Pi 3 Compute based industrial Linux box.It runs Raspbian with some additions. There's a set of industrial hardware extensions. In this blog I revisit the industrial I/O. I create a C pro...
Wooden satellites could help curb space junk currently orbiting around Earth. (Image Credit: Sumitomo Forestry) I love this effort. The Earth’s orbit is littered with thousands of satellites. This becomes an issue when they are no longer operabl...
Researchers have created a robot made ice to be durable and efficient in environments where ice is plentiful. The robot’s body is actually made from blocks of ice. (Image credit: GRASP Lab) NASA and JPL put a lot of work into their planetary exp...
The SmartEdge IIOT GatewaySmartEdge IIOT Gateway is a Raspberry Pi 3 Compute based industrial Linux box.It runs Raspbian with some additions. There's a set of industrial hardware extensions. In this blog I revisit the industrial I/O. I try to control...
Ph.D. student James Jian demonstrates one of the 3D printed flexoskeleton robots. They only take 10 minutes to print the parts, and they cost just under $1. (Image Credit: UC San Diego) Engineers from the University of California San Diego have ...
Boston Dynamics recently showcased its robots dancing to close out 2020. (Image Credit: Boston Dynamics) Boston Dynamics’ Atlas and Spot robots can perform a variety of tricks, including gymnastic routines, parkour, backflips, opening doors, was...
