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Google Parent Company Tests UAV Takeout

Recently, the technology giant Alphabet’s Project Wing project and the fast-food chain Chipotle have carried out experimental cooperation projects. They plan to provide drone delivery Mexico roll service at Virginia Tech in the coming weeks.

This hybrid unmanned man flies to Chipotle's food-loading truck delivery center (instead of a specific Chipotle chain store) and hovering over the crowd. When someone places orders, they use the ropes to serve food. . Throughout this process, the R&D team can detect the accuracy of drone navigation systems. In addition to this, developers are keeping foods warm during transport by improving the packaging.

Japanese company develops table tennis robot

On September 8th, Tokyo Time, Omron Corporation of Japan announced on its official website that the robot “Forpheus” developed by the company that can continuously play against humans for table tennis was recognized as the world’s first “table tennis coach robot” by the Guinness Book of World Records. ".

The overall shape of the robot looks very powerful, a bit like "octopus", much higher than people. Cameras are installed on both sides of the robot to predict the trajectory of the table tennis, including: ball speed, rotation speed, rotation direction, and several other data, so as to calculate the point at which the racket should be returned at a certain point. The error is only a few centimeters.

As a basic quality of a coach, it is necessary to learn how to improve the enthusiasm of students by appropriate “discharging” methods.

Forpheus will record the trajectory of the athlete's ball, and choose to make the opponent easy to hit the ball back. Forpheus will show the ball's placement on the table at the moment of returning the ball, so that the water is full of love for the students.

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Artificial heart will become a reality?

Recently, the French company Carmat announced the creation of a second personal heart-making product, which is expected to be born in 2017 and is intended to be approved by the European authorities. Unlike other artificial hearts, Carmat builds a permanent artificial heart, saves those with advanced heart disease, and directly replaces the already heart failure heart, rather than as a heart bypass device to assist the patient's next heart transplant.

Carmat has been focusing on the field of artificial heart for 15 years. Its artificial heart can completely replace the human heart, save those with advanced heart disease, and patients who have not lived for two weeks.

Carmat's artificial heart was developed from biological materials. It does not require transplant recipients to take immunosuppressive drugs and is able to imitate the heart's original heart operation with the most "loyalty". Unlike previous short-term ventricular assist pumps, Carmat's artificial heart is dedicated to "settling" patients. Only the battery that powers the heart is outside the body and its "endurance" is up to 2 hours.

So far, Carmat's artificial heart has undergone four surgical transplants. One patient had lived for a year after heart transplant. The patient died because of confusion in the control of the electronic engine of the artificial heart.

Now, the company aims to expand the permanent artificial heart transplant surgery to 25 cases through the certification authority of European authorities, complete the second batch of clinical trials, and popularize the transplant experience.

This sensor can make you "Magnetic King"

In August of this year, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, developed a millimeter-scale wireless sensor called Neural Dust. The ultimate goal of this sensor is to create a new generation of human brain and machine interface, and make him a clinical technology. . For example, if a person in a paraplegic desires to control a computer or a robotic arm, you only need to implant this small thing into the brain to carry it and use it for life.

The sensor is 3 mm long, 1 mm high and 0.8 mm wide. It is only a grain of sand. The entire sensor surface is surrounded by a film that is a surgical resin. Piezoelectric crystals can convert ultrasonic waves in vitro into electricity, powering the tiny transistors in the middle of the small board, and the micro-transistors collect information about nerves and muscle tissue, and feed the data information back to the receiver in an ultrasonic form.

At present, researchers have done experiments in mice and have confirmed that Neural Dust can be applied to the peripheral nervous system. For example, it can be used to control the bladder and suppress appetite.

However, the sensor still has a long way to go for the human body. Professor Eric Leuthardt of the University of Washington said that before wireless sensors are connected to the brain, how the brain processes and shares information requires more in-depth research.

industry

In August, there were a total of 18 robotic companies financing transactions with a total financing of approximately US$430 million (this year’s estimated total financing amount exceeds US$1 billion). There are also four acquisition transactions with a total purchase price of US$1 billion.

Including Airobotics, Blue Ocean Robotics, Velodyne LiDAR and many other companies have received different amounts of financing.

In addition to financing, the robotics industry also took some acquisitions in August.

Canadian innovative medical robot company Bionik Labs acquired Waterton Rehabilitation Robots Interactive Motion Technologies for US$23.65 million.

German venture capital firm DPE Deutsche Private Equity decided to sell Westfalia Group, a traction equipment manufacturer and robot warehousing solutions integrator, to Horizon Global Corp for $186 million.

Otto Motors, a San Francisco start-up truck driver system development company, has just been acquired by Uber. The specific purchase price is unknown. Bloomberg said that the acquisition price was 680 million U.S. dollars, and the amount reached 0.9% of Uber's total valuation.

Zimmer Medical acquired Medtech, a French developer of new surgical robot systems, for US$132 million.

Academic

As robots move around, for safety reasons, they will set a "panic zone" for themselves based on sensors. Once outside objects enter the area, they will feel paranoid and "fear" and stop moving. Just think, if there are only two robots in a region, they will keep a certain safe distance from each other and will not interfere with each other; but as the number of robots increases, the chance of their “panic zone” will increase to a certain degree. After the threshold, their "panic zone" will coincide. If this happens in a global context, you will witness the paradox of robots all over the world.

Georgia Tech’s R&D team designed a safety controller for mobile robots that did not hinder the main controllers. This meant “only if the crash hits or the loss of connectivity is imminent. Next, the safety controller can control the robot to make a collision avoidance action."

In order to test their algorithms in several robots, the R&D team used the Khepera III, a small mobile robot developed by the Swiss company K-Team. In an ideal situation, the safety controller will always operate, but when you want the controller to be able to achieve "avoiding collisions and maintaining connectivity" while "complicating tasks", it is more difficult.

Scientists believe that technologies like this will become more and more important because in the near future, driverless cars will fill our streets, and there will be more and more drones in the sky. The security measures of robots are important, but when they can't do their job safely, they can do their job wisely. No matter how many robots humans eventually have, they can play a very limited role.

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