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True full-duplex two-way wireless connectivity developed

By Damir Beciri
14 June 2012

two-way-wireless-communicationCurrent wireless systems don’t allow the data to be sent and received in the same time over the same frequency. That’s because the strength of the transmission overwhelms any incoming signal on the same frequency. In order to increase the bandwidth and quality of data transfer, a group of engineers from the University of Waterloo… »

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RIBA II – improved robotic nursing care aid from Japan

By Damir Beciri
3 Comments2 August 2011

riba-iiJapan has a growing number of elderly in need of nursing care and an urgent need for new approaches used to assist care-giving personnel. Researchers at RIKEN and Tokai Rubber Industries (TRI) are developing a robot which performs one of the most exhausting tasks for such personnel – lifting a patient from a futon at… »

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Razero ball balancing robot prototype got its new groove

By Damir Beciri
One Comment7 June 2010

razero-concept-bridgeWe already wrote about a robot that balances on a ball named BallIP, and in this article we’re going to write about a robot which uses a similar concept and developed design. Rezero is the name of a robot which is currently developed by a team of thirteen students. The prototype just got a modern… »

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BallIP robot is able to balance on a ball while it carries weight

By Damir Beciri
One Comment14 May 2010

ballip-robot-balancing-on-a-ball-1Dr. Masaaki Kumagai, director of the Robot Development Engineering Laboratory at Tohoku Gakuin University, in Tagajo City, Japan, and his student Takaya Ochiai have built a robot named BallIP (Ball Inverted Pendulum) that is able to balance on a ball. Such a ball-balancing design is like an inverted pendulum, and thus naturally unstable, but it… »