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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. The shower head would then automatically turn the water off, turning it back on again when the person moved back into range. With such a device, he thought, people could enjoy a long shower without wasting water. “A

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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

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The grand prize winner will be announced sometime in January, 2016. We believe that inverters will become increasingly important to our economy and environment as solar PV, batteries, and similar power sources continue their rapid growth. Eligible academics interested in pursuing grant funding must apply by 30 September.

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The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots

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If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s how important it is not to take physical contact for granted. Unfortunately, physical contact with humans is something that robots find especially difficult and occasionally dangerous, so that we cannot (yet) safely use them as a proxy for nuanced physical contact with another person.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Registration is open ; guests can attend in person or virtually. And cameras are present in almost every type of environment, including in our own homes.” In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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She has been granted 38 U.S. The company went public in 2016 and was acquired by ON Semiconductor in 2019. I feel particularly obligated to create the environment that will help the next generation as well. As a society, we need to ensure that every person can achieve their full potential,” she says. patents for her work.

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Q&A: Ghost Robotics CEO on Armed Robots for the U.S. Military

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One of the exhibitors was Ghost Robotics —we've previously covered their nimble and dynamic quadrupedal robots, which originated at the University of Pennsylvania with Minitaur in 2016. The amount of energy that's put into protecting us by these people that we don't even know is really amazing, and we take it for granted.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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She has been granted 38 U.S. The company went public in 2016 and was acquired by ON Semiconductor in 2019. I feel particularly obligated to create the environment that will help the next generation as well. As a society, we need to ensure that every person can achieve their full potential,” she says. patents for her work.

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