“The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well,” tweeted Elon Musk yesterday. “Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.” Neuralink is Musk’s electronic brain interface company, developing implants with connections to thousands of in-brain electrodes. Its goal, the company has said, is to enable people with paralysis to “directly use their neural activity to operate ...
In a report, Amnesty International details what it claims are “grievous human rights abuses” due to the expansion of industrial-scale cobalt and copper mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “The forced evictions taking place as companies seek to expand industrial-scale copper and cobalt mining, projects are wrecking lives and must stop now,” said Amnesty International secretary general Agnès ...
Researchers in Australia have used micromachined silicon pillars and graphene to make skin electrodes for EEG that are far less messy than the current scheme in medical use, which is wet silver – silver chloride electrodes, but are not far behind in performance. The self-imposed challenge was to be able to sense through hair on a curved area of the scalp – ...
Anders has introduced a family of rotary switches that have a circular colour TFT-LCD in the middle, as well as a push button function. Available with 1.3, 2.1 or 2.47inch circular displays, the knobs are ~48, 76 or 92mm in diameter respectively. The company sees them being used in heating systems, industrial controls, IoT devices, boilers, white goods, fitness equipment ...
Schurter has added to its fleet of collaborative robots (cobots) in its German and Netherlands factories taking the total to five. “Above all, the use of cobots reduces the workload for employees through automated and precise process steps such as loading, fixing, assembling lamination, dispensing and quality inspection, and frees up space for activities during production,” said the company, adding: ...
Latvian start-up Azeron took a unique approach when creating its Cyborg game controller, adding 24 or 29 programmable keys alongside joystick capability. Fingers get keys below, in front and above them, some get side buttons as well – so four or more buttons each – and the thumb has plenty of things to press and wiggle too. All are within ...
University of Surrey researchers have been inventing ways to get electronic activity into every page of plain paper books, and have come up with two forms of ‘magic bookmark’ as they have dubbed them. Developed at Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute and its Digital World Research Centre, the idea is that the bookmark communiates with a phone app via a bluetooth link. One of the ...
Human tissue is a good transmission medium for connecting wireless binaural hearing aids, according to Tokyo University of Science. “For wearables to truly transcend portables, we will need to rethink the way in which devices communicate with each other,” according to the university. “The usual approach of using an antenna to radiate signals into the surrounding area while hoping to ...
Adlink has teamed up with Candera to provide a way to create touchscreen user interfaces for IoT applications – demonstrating it with a 2D – 3D washing machine GUI (graphical user interface). The tools are Adlink’s Rockchip PX30 SoC based I-PI Smarc IoT prototyping platform and Candara’s CGI Studio. “Intuitive touch feedback of displays and devices is no longer a privilege ...
AI is too powerful for engineers to handle alone, is one of the conclusions of a study into autonomous systems and humanity people by the University of Texas at Austin. Instead, future designs must be guided by a broad range of societal stakeholders. Over 100 US autonomy experts were involved, whose work has been pulled together in a report (see below), commissioned ...
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