Wearable technology was highlighted at CES 2015 last week in Las Vegas, with Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announcing the Curie module, a tiny hardware product based on the company’s first purpose-built system-on-chip (SoC) for wearable devices.
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Why insects can helps us build better ‘bots
Founded by John Espey, Organic Electrics designs and builds robots based on insects and other living organisms. Indeed, the small size, power efficiency and complex behaviors of insects make the creatures ideal models for next-gen robotics.
Lensless smart sensor tech goes thermal
Lensless smart sensor (LSS) technology is designed to capture data rich images using a low-cost phase grating. Although the raw ‘snap’ is indecipherable to the naked human eye, the sensor, which is approximately the size of pinhead, is capable of capturing all of the information in the visual world up to a certain resolution.
What do robots and ‘copters have in common?
Small autonomous quad-copters and hex-copters typically carry a limited payload – with little weight available for obstacle-avoiding cameras. Meanwhile, robots equipped with a central, high-quality camera that triangulates the location of every possible obstacle and object of interest present a computational challenge for engineers.
Lensless smart sensors eye the final frontier
Traditional imaging is typically associated with conventional cameras that capture a simple, straightforward representation of a particular subject or scene.
How sensors are making smart homes a reality
The falling cost of adding sensing and communications capabilities to consumer products means the typical family home could contain several hundred smart objects by 2022.