Theo Jansen strandbeest
Theo Jansen's mechanism (named strandbeest - "beach animal") allows to perform walking motion. The advantage is that the required power of the engine used in the mechanism must be sufficient to transfer only the legs (not transported elements).
Mercedes-Benz Production
Currently car production is fully automated and people's work is reduced to a minimum. Car assembly time is about 12 hours. The following videos show the production of Mercedes-Benz - manufacture of cars, how a car is assembled on an automatic assembly line.
IBM The Battery 500 project
IBM introduces 15x better batteries, lithium-air - lighter, breathable, more spacious and designed in order to operate in electric cars.
Battery 500 project started in 2009 at the initiative of IBM. In its assumptions was to develop batteries able to power an electric car at a distance of 500 miles (about 800 km).
DARPA Robot Masters Stairs
Humanoid robots, that are able to climbing stairs and walking, are the future. DARPA and Boston Dynamics show their own versions of these robots, which climbing stairs, walking on a treadmill and doing pushups. "Big dog" robot will have soon his owner.
Roller chain generator for Inventor
Program RollerChain.exe created by Professor Lian Xie allows you to generate complete 3D roller chain model. Generated model is an Inventor assembly (.iam).
- Run Inventor and RollerChain.exe.
- Select folder (default active project in Inventor),
- Select an option: Chain Segment or Whole Chain,
Highly flexible touch sensor - Atmel XSense
At present, displays are constraints in device development. Will it be possibility to use whole surface of the device as a display? Now this is possible with the revolutionary touch sensor - Xsense Atmel. A highly flexible film, XSense sensors can be used on curved surfaces and edges. So now you can design capacitive touchscreens in shapes that previously weren’t possible.
Enabling See-through, Wearable Displays
World known from science-fiction movies is getting closer! It's about the reality extending glasses, and did not look like a big
helmet. Lumus company has created unusual glasses. They offer two sets:
- two slides of the holder allows them to wear glasses
- one slide used as a monocle
For displaying an image on the lens correspond microscopic size projectors. Generated by them the light beam are reflected from the lens and the eye sees the image HD resolution (1280 x 720 pixels). If you use two displays is possible to achieve the 3D effect. According to Engadget editor, who tested device, the image formed on the surface of the lens was very sharp and clean, and wearing glasses was not uncomfortable, because they weigh only 27 grams.