Reporte #123
Drones that drive
MIT News – Engineering
CSAIL team’s system of quadcopters that fly and drive suggest another approach to developing flying cars.
Dimensionamento e construção de pipelines abordados em conferência da ASCE
Engenharia Civil
A Sociedade Americana de Engenheiros Civis (ASCE) promove, entre 6 e 9 de agosto, em Phoenix, no Estado do Arizona, EUA, a Conferência ASCE de Pipelines 2017. A Conferência terá como tema central a fiabilidade e resiliência através do dimensionamento e construção sustentáveis.
3D Electronic Nose Demostrates Advantages of Carbon Nanotubes
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
You’d think computers spend most of their time and energy doing, well, computation. But that’s not the case: about 90 percent of a computer’s execution time and electrical energy is spent transferring data between the processor and the memory banks, says Subhasish Mitra, a computer scientist at Stanford University. Even if Moore’s law continued on indefinitely, computers would still be limited by this memory bottleneck.
Medições Hidráulicas e Métodos Experimentais 2017
Engenharia Civil
O Instituto de Recursos Hídricos e Ambientais (EWRI) da Sociedade Americana de Engenheiros Civis(ASCE) organiza, entre 9 e 12 de julho, na Universidade de New Hampshire, em Durham, EUA, a Conferência de Medições Hidráulicas e Métodos Experimentais 2017.
EU Developing Robot Badgers for Underground Excavation
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
These days, you can find capable and confident robots driving, flying, swimming, diving, out in space, and even boring through ice. What we haven’t seen a lot of are robots designed to dig underground. There have been a few self-burying robots that use digging to their advantage, but they’re not designed for underground locomotion. This is slightly strange, to be honest, considering how many animals make their living by digging tunnels, and also considering how often we humans need to do useful things underground.
A Ponte Verde de Yangjaegogae
Engenharia Civil
Uma equipa de arquitetos lituanos desenvolveu, no âmbito da competição internacional de design “Yangjaegogae Eco Bridge“, o projeto conceptual de uma passagem superior ambiental para peões. A estrutura, que estabelece a ligação entre taludes da autoestrada de Gyeongbu, em Seul, Coreia do Sul, servirá igualmente como passagem de fauna, sendo parte integrante do projeto Anel Verde 2030.
Underwater Robots Learn a New Language, JANUS
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
The new JANUS acoustic signal will connect aquatic robots and sensors into an “Internet of Underwater Things”.
Computer system predicts products of chemical reactions
MIT News – Engineering
Machine learning approach could aid the design of industrial processes for drug manufacturing.
Nondestructive Microscopy Technique Offers a Path Toward In-Silicon Quantum Computers
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
An international team of researchers has developed a nondestructive imaging technique that can peer deep inside of silicon to locate and characterize various structures. While this should be a boon for testing and measuring conventional silicon chips currently used in information processing, it could have its greatest impact by enabling the next generation of devices for quantum information processing.
This Circuit Board Will Self-Destruct in 5, 4, 3…
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Under the cover of night, enemy agents capture an elite solider unit. The agents hold down the commander and cut through the skin of his upper arm, pulling out a slim, transparent circuit board containing the unit’s military directives. But as soon as the agents remove the device, it dissolves before their eyes.