Category: New products
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Algorithms Track Individual Athletes During Sports Events
Computer algorithms developed by Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland make it possible to visually track individual players in action on sports teams. The technology developers, from EPFL’s Computer Vision Laboratory, present their findings today at the International Conference on Computer Vision in Barcelona. The system can track multiple players in fast-moving sports…
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Researchers Give Robotics a Human Face
Research engineers at Technical University of Munich (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, TUM) in Germany and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan have developed a way to give robots a human-like plastic head. Called Mask-bot, the technology may have a more immediate application as a tool to create avatars for participants in…
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Solar Technology Developed for Current Electric Power Plants
Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have come up with a technology that integrates solar energy into current gas turbine power generating plants. Engineering professor Avi Kribus (pictured left) and graduate student Maya Livshits describe their work online in Solar Energy Journal; paid subscription required. The process devised by Kribus and Livshits, called a…
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Driver Health Monitors Developed for Passenger Cars
A research team at the Technical University of Munich (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, TUM) in Germany and the BMW Group devised a sensor system that can monitor the driver’s state of health while driving. The scientific team led by TUM’s professor Tim Lueth published their findings in a recent issue of the technical journal ATZ Online…
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National Lab, MIT Launch Materials Discovery Database
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a database to accelerate discovery and development of new materials in critical technologies. The Department of Energy database, part of an initiative called the Materials Project, will be available to scientists and engineers at universities, national laboratories, and private industry. Parts…
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NSF Award to Help Commercialize Implanted Medication Pump
A biomedical engineering professor at University of Southern California in Los Angeles has received an Innovation Corps award from National Science Foundation to help bring to market research from her lab. The six-month $50,000 grant — one of the first group of Innovation Corps awardees announced last month by NSF — will help USC’s Ellis…
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Roche, DexCom to Partner on Insulin Delivery Systems
Roche Diagnostics, a division of the global pharmaceutical company, and DexCom Inc. in San Diego have agreed to develop an insulin delivery system for diabetics that combines the companies’ technologies. Roche also agreed to distribute DexCom’s glucose monitoring system for health care professionals. The two companies aim to integrate DexCom’s continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology…
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Laser Technique Developed for Microscale Tissue Engineering
A research team from Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH) eV Institute in Hannover, Germany, and the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University in Raleigh has devised a technique to produce finely detailed scaffolds on which human cells can grow to replace lost or damaged…
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iPhone App Helps Delay Need for Reading Glasses
Software released for iPhones and based on the work of a research team at Tel Aviv University in Israel can help middle-age eyes delay their need for reading glasses. The research, led by Uri Polat, a professor at the university’s medical school, addresses presbyopia, a condition where near vision deteriorates because eyes cannot focus as…
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Math Model Detects Financial Asset Bubbles
Statisticians in the U.S. and France have devised a mathematical model that they say can detect asset bubbles, such as vastly over-valued stocks, in real time. Robert Jarrow of Cornell University and risk management company Kamakura Corp. in Honolulu, Younes Kchia at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and Philip Protter of Columbia University published their findings…