welcome to TTI, welcome to a whole new world of science this video lists some
of the coolest scientific progress in recent years and my apology I am sick so
I might sound a little bit stuffy without further ado let's start the list
pop star Carter is a robot developed by the nvidia team which is responsible for
providing its colleagues and staff members with the bags of fresh popcorn
the robot can be used to transfer objects from one location to another
within a specified area or range the robot is built by claire de Launay
on a Segway rmp 210 robotic mobility platform it uses a lidar sensor and a
stereoscopic camera to navigate the area around it the robot has several other
uses for example it can be used to pick up dishes in the kitchen find parking
spaces for employees helping visitors to navigate to conference or meeting rooms
and so on the cool thing about this robot is that it can be customized the
owner can use different scenarios map locations tasks and building lanes and
plug the data into the robot and the robot will function accordingly
currently this robot is used for delivery of popcorn as a healthy snack
on every Thursday in the nvidia office heard staff members EPFL drone EPFL
ecole polytechnique fédérale de los on built this drone which is equipped with
feathers and has the unique ability unlike other drones to change its shape
direction and being adapted to the external environmental conditions this
drone is inspired by the flying technique of birds the drones developed
today are pretty much precisely made for a specific condition weather
circumstance or scenario where as this drone is a shapeshifter
the drone is developed by the researchers at Laboratory of intelligent
systems which have the idea of building an energy efficient wings drone capable
of changing its wingspan flying at high speed and moving through tight spaces
the wing is a mainly made up of composite materials in order to maximize
strength while reducing overall weight research of lis has just been published
in the Royal Society journal interface focus and the work for the EP
l drone was funded by NCC our robotics the head of L is stated with the
foldable wings we discovered that we didn't need a L'Orange to help the drone
turn by changing the wingspan and surface area during flight we could make
it turn automatically royal jet capsule as the name clarifies this is a capsule
shape too mini jet which is made by an Italian company by the name of jet
capsule founded by Pierre Paolo Lazzarini the fully customizable jet
capsule is an ultra futuristic yacht made almost entirely from fiberglass
costing a hundred forty five thousand euros the Italian makers offer a variety
of interiors including a small kitchen and bathroom as well as advanced and
luxurious extras such as mood lighting and Sun decks the attached water jets
can be used to fly board a sport in which a writer is thrusted into the air
by pressure forced from the sole of specially made boots the jet capsule is
powered by an enormous 740 bhp diesel engine and a water jet for pulling it to
a top speed of 35 knots or 40 miles per hour
it measures 23 feet long and 13 feet wide it's twice as spacious as most
vessels of a similar length making it ideal for entertaining or ferrying
passengers pierre Paulo and his team have sold five boats and total two in
Russia two in China and another in Spain
Leonardo humanoid robots Caltech is developing a humanoid robot with some
pretty powerful augmentations the legs on aerial robotic drone or Leonardo is a
bipedal robot with a thruster that gives it exceptional balancing ability and
advanced agility Leo stands about 0.75 meters tall and is comprised of mostly
carbon fiber it is really light which allows it to drone like through
to lift the whole robot off the ground Leo isn't a flying robot though the
thrusters are designed to give the robot a better balance especially his upper
body so that his legs don't have to take that task on as well the propellers on
the thrusters work in synchronization with the legs of the robot to help it
make advanced movements humanoid robots are difficult to build because humans
are incredibly complex with the ranges of movements that almost seem to defy
our own understanding of physics I own a craft mini-drone researchers
from UC Berkeley are designing a mini MicroBot that is shoes those moving
parts but is still capable of taking flight their eye on a craft doesn't
follow the same biomimetic approach as the others but instead relies on electro
hydrodynamic thrust to provide lift which is a technique to create airflow
using electrical energy measuring just 2 centimeters by 2 centimeters and
weighing 30 milligrams the ionic craft uses ion thrusters that take advantage
of a high strength electrical field to generate ionized air ions within that
air are drawn to a negative charged grid and while on their way to that grid they
collide with the neutral air molecules giving them momentum and thus thrust the
MicroBot uses four thrusters which were designed using a thin emitter wire and a
collector grid when a voltage is applied between the two it produces a positive
ion cloud which is drawn to the negative grid air is pushed and boom thrust
flight control is done using an onboard IMU and by altering the amount of
current for each thruster allowing it to move similarly to quadcopters
controlling direction roll pitch and yaw
pacemaker charger despite tremendous technological advances a key drawback of
most implantable devices is their batteries whose limited capacities
restrict their long-term use for example a heart patient needs surgery to just
replace the battery of a pacemaker a life-saving device however many energy
harvesting strategies involve converting energy from vibrations pressure and
other mechanical stresses into electrical energy
this approach produces what is known as piezo electricity it's often used in
loud speakers and microphones to take advantage of piezo electricity
Jagr devaron and colleagues have developed flat devices that can be stuck
on to organs and muscles such as the heart lungs and diaphragm their
mechanical properties are similar to whatever they're laminated onto so they
don't hinder those tissues when they move so far such devices have been
tested and cows sheep and pigs animals with hearts roughly the same size as
those of people scientists are also developing wearable piezo electric
energy harvesters that can be worn on joints such as the knee or elbow or in
shoes and trousers people could generate electricity for
electronics whenever they walk or bend their arms or while breathing - liquid
3d printer researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNL and
California teamed up with collaborators from MIT the University of Rochester and
UC Berkeley to develop this method which flashes a laser generated hologram like
3d images into photosensitive resin the new 3d printer is able to make smoother
more complex and flexible objects CT scans which project x-rays or
electromagnetic radiation into the body from various angles
actually inspire this method as those patterns of transmitted energy need to
be analyzed in order to reveal the geometry of an object like a tumour
jenga playing robot for several decades of various types of artificial
intelligence have been facing off with people in highly competitive games and
then quickly destroying their human competition AI long ago mastered chess
the Chinese board game go and even the Rubik's Cube which it managed to solve
and just point 38 seconds now machines have a new game that will allow them to
humiliate humans called Jenga the popular game and source of a
melodramatic 1980s commercials in which players strategically remove pieces from
an increasingly unstable tower of 54 blocks
placing each one on top until the entire structure collapses but this machine
from MIT is equipped with a soft pronged gripper a force sensing wrist cuff and
an external camera allowing the robot to perceive the towers vulnerabilities the
way a human might thanks for watching which machine did you find the most
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