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		<title>Thinner thermal insulation with newly developed VIPs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[insulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insulation panels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At present, insulation panels that are both thin and effective are expensive high-end products that are built into energy-saving refrigerators. In order to enable better and cost-effective insulation used in building construction, Fraunhofer researchers are developing vacuum isolation panels (VIPs) &#8211; short films for a material that will insulate homes without the need for significant [...]

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		<title>A new lightweight robot inspired by spiders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spiders have inspired a group of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA to create a mobile robot which looks and moves as spiders. This high-tech assistant is still a prototype, but researchers envision its use as an exploratory tool in environments that are too hazardous or hardly reachable for humans. [...]

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		<title>Robotic system enables faster and automated glass development</title>
		<link>http://www.robaid.com/robotics/robotic-system-enables-faster-and-automated-glass-development.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damir B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[glass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glass material]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aside the difference in coloration, a layman might think every glass material is the same, but there is more than it meets the eye in this transparent material. Glass can consist of up to 60 different elements, and experts are constantly creating glass with properties required in some application. Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for [...]

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		<title>Self-cleaning equipment in food industry enables food without preservatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bakeries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in a cozy sidewalk cafe, watching passersby and enjoying a chocolate-cream éclair – for many of us, this is a portrait of a relaxation, but the bakers who make the éclairs out of pastry dough inside our favorite home made bakery have to use a special machine that they operate by hand. Researchers have [...]

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		<title>Researchers getting closer to creation of 3D printed blood vessels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[3d objects]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[artificial blood vessels]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[elastic structures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Fraunhofer are combining two different techniques &#8211; 3D printing technology established in rapid prototyping and multiphoton polymerization developed in polymer science – in order to create artificial blood vessels. Aside creating artificial blood vessels that could be used to could supply artificial tissue, the technology could be a starting point for creation of [...]

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		<title>Nature inspires lighter and tougher plastic components</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certain biological materials exhibit exceptional strength due to their complex structure which has been perfected through time. Inspired by the perfected structures found in nature, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute are collaborating on a project named Bionic Manufacturing. It aims to develop plastic products that are lightweight and strong, while being economic in their use [...]

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		<title>Sensor film could help in food quality control</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago we wrote about folks from Fraunhofer who came up with active packaging that increases shelf life of spoilable products, and their colleagues came up with a way to indicate whether the food on the shelf is already spoiled due to errors which could occur before the food is packaged, or due to [...]

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		<title>New affordable microcamera could improve future endoscopes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advancements in technology have enabled microcameras on the tip of endoscopes to supply images from the inside of the human body in ever higher resolution, which often makes it possible to identify tumors at an early stage. In order to counter the downsides such as costs and the time consuming procedure of sterilization between uses, [...]

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		<title>ETFE material research made plastic facades more practicable and affordable</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Aid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plastic film of Ethylene tetraflourethylene (ETFE) is a growing trend in architecture these days because it enables new design options. The Eden Project in Southern England, the National Aquatics Center built for swimming events at the Olympics in Beijing and the Allianz Arena in Munich are only three examples of what you can make [...]

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		<title>pi4-workerbot &#8211; a multi-purpose robot with finger-tip sensitivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dag G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK, in Berlin, have been working on a human-sized manufacturing robot that could bring greater flexibility to industrial mass production process. Unlike the specialized assembly line robots, the human sized pi4-workerbot is being developed as a multi-purpose robot with a wider range of potential [...]

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