The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and Amazon today announced the Science Hub, an effort that deepens the relationship between the two organizations and will advance innovation in core robotics, artificial intelligence technologies and their applications.
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Recent honors and awards for ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty and staff include a top young innovator, a new endowed faculty fellow, research grants awarded and a career achievement award in environmental political science.
A team of organizations — led by the space technology company Astrobotic and including the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø spinout WiBotic — has received a $5.8 million contract to develop a line of lightweight, ultrafast wireless chargers that could help both humans and robots live and work on the moon.
Recent honors to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty and staff include the new editorship of a major journal, a post with the Republic of Uganda and honors from the American College of Physicians, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Engineers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry components and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have demonstrated for the first time that devices that run on almost zero power can transmit data across distances of up to 2.8 kilometers — breaking a long-held barrier and potentially enabling a vast array of interconnected devices.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø engineers have designed the first battery-free cellphone that can send and receive calls using only a few microwatts of power, which it harvests from ambient radio signals or light. It’s a major step forward in moving beyond chargers, cords and dying phones.
A new technique pioneered by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø engineers enables “singing” posters and “smart” clothing to send audio or data directly to your car’s radio or your smartphone by piggybacking on ambient FM radio signals.
“Interscatter” communication developed by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø engineers allows power-limited devices such as brain implants, contact lenses, credit cards and smaller wearable electronics to talk to everyday devices such as smartphones and watches.
An international team led by researchers at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) based at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is one of three finalists in a race to produce an implantable wireless device that can assess, stimulate and block the activity of nerves that control organs.
With “Passive Wi-Fi,” ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø computer scientists and electrical engineers have generated Wi-Fi transmissions using 10,000 times less power than conventional methods. The system can transmit Wi-Fi signals at rates up to 11 megabits per second — lower than maximum Wi-Fi speeds but 11 times faster than Bluetooth — that can be decoded on any of the billions of devices with Wi-Fi connectivity.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s College of Engineering 2014 fall lecture series will feature faculty researchers in engineering and medicine who are improving cardiac medical care with new technologies.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have taken inspiration from a centuries-old clock design and created a power harvester that uses natural fluctuations in temperature and pressure as its power source.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø engineers have designed a new communication system that uses radio frequency signals as a power source and reuses existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to provide Internet connectivity to battery-free devices.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø engineers have created a new wireless communication system that allows devices to interact with each other without relying on batteries or wires for power.