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pacome delva

Electronic Nose Knows a Good Smell - 1 views

news.sciencemag.org/...nic-nose-knows-a-good-sme.html

ai smell enose

shared by pacome delva on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
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  • Most of these devices have been able to identify and distinguish only between specific odors they've previously been trained to recognize, however, says neuroscientist Rafi Haddad of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. If an artificial nose is ever to replace the real thing, he says, it will have to be able to classify odors it has never encountered before.
  • pacome delva on 16 Apr 10
     
    for Eduardo !
  • Eduardo Martin Moraud on 16 Apr 10
     
    Smells awesome! Thanks dude...
Dario Izzo

Electronic Nose - 3 views

science.nasa.gov/...06oct_enose.htm

smell nose olfactory

shared by Dario Izzo on 03 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 03 Mar 10
     
    NASA worked on this 4 years ago.... good inspiration for a possible alternative application to navigation
ESA ACT

NASA's 'electronic nose' could sniff out cancer - tech - 29 August 2008 - New Scientist... - 1 views

space.newscientist.com/...se-could-sniff-out-cancer.html

biomimicry BIO nasa

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    maybe this would be worth looking into along with our biomemetic idea
johannessimon81

Google combines skycrane, VTOL and lifting wing to make drone deliveries - 6 views

www.wired.com/...ffort-to-build-delivery-drones

technology drone_delivery VTOL skycrane FUN soundtrack

shared by johannessimon81 on 30 Aug 14 - No Cached
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  • johannessimon81 on 30 Aug 14
     
    Nice video featuring the technology. Plus it comes with a good soundtrack! Google's project wing uses a lifting wing concept (more fuel efficient than normal airplane layouts and MUCH more efficient than quadrocopters) but it equips the plane with engines strong enough to hover in a nose up position, allowing vertical landing and takeoff. For the delivery of packages the drone does not even need to land - it can lower them on a wire - much like the skycrane concept used to deliver the Curiosity rover on Mars. Not sure if the skycrane is really necessary but it is certainly cool. Anyways, the video is great for its soundtrack alone! ;-P
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  • Paul N on 31 Aug 14
     
    could we just use genetic algorithms to evolve these shapes and layouts? :P
  • Ma Ru on 31 Aug 14
     
    > Not sure if the skycrane is really necessary but it is certainly cool. I think apart from coolness using a skycrane helps keep the rotating knives away from the recipient...
  • Thijs Versloot on 01 Sep 14
     
    Honest question, are we ever going to see this in practice? I mean besides some niche application somewhere, isn't it fundamentally flawed or do I need to keep my window opened on the 3rd floor without a balcony when I ordered something from DX? Its pretty cool yes, but practical?
  • Guido de Croon on 02 Sep 14
     
    Package delivery is indeed more complicated than it may seem at first sight, although solutions are possible for instance by restricting delivery to distribution centers. What we really need of course is some really efficient and robust AI to navigate without any problems in urban areas : ) The hybrid is interesting since it combines the advantage of a Vertical Takeoff and Landing (and hover), and a wing for more efficient forward flight. Challenges lie in the control of the vehicle under any angle and all that this entails also for higher levels of control. Our lab has first used this concept a few years ago for the DARPA UAVforge challenge, and we had two hybrids in our entry last year for the IMAV 2013 (for some shaky images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7XgRK7pMoU ).
  • Thijs Versloot on 04 Sep 14
     
    Fair enough, but even if you consider advanced/robust/efficient AI, why would you use a drone? Do we envision hundreds of drones above our heads in the street instead of UPS vans, or postmen, considering delivers letters might be more easily achievable. I am not so sure if personal delivery will take this route. On the other hand, if the system would work smoothly, I can image that I'm send a mail with the question whether I'm home (or they might know already from my personal GPS tracker) and then notify me that they are launching my DVD and it will come crashing into my door in 5min.
  • Paul N on 08 Sep 14
     
    I'm more curios how they're planning to keep people from stealing the drones. I could do with a drone army myself and having cheap amazon or google drones flying about sounds like a decent source.
Dario Izzo

If It Smells Like a Rose ... Maybe You're a Neural Network - 5 views

www.suite101.com/...37799

smell olfactory nose

shared by Dario Izzo on 03 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 03 Mar 10
     
    Good critic to a non neuromorphic approach?
LeopoldS

Three-Dimensional Invisibility Cloak at Optical Wavelengths - 4 views

www.sciencemag.org/...337.abstract

technology phy science nan

shared by LeopoldS on 16 May 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 16 May 11
     
    more transformation optics ... 
  • dejanpetkow on 17 May 11
     
    I still believe that it is worth to check the thermal, mechanical and chemical properties of the developed metamaterials. For hyperbolic re-entries the radiation is still the dominating heat load source and a dominating bandwith may be indentified. A resistive metamaterial should be placed on the nose cap of the entry body in order to reduce local radiation heat load.
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