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New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs. Ultrasound imaging is a safe and noninvasive window into the body’s workings, providing clinicians with live images of a patient’s internal organs. To capture these images, trained technicians manipulate ultrasound wands and probes to direct sound waves into the body. These waves reflect back out to produce high-resolution images of a patient’s heart, lungs, and other deep organs. The engineers present the design for a new ultrasound sticker — a stamp-sized device that sticks to skin and can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours. The researchers applied the stickers to volunteers and showed the devices produced live, high-resolution images of major blood vessels and deeper organs such as the heart, lungs, and stomach. The stickers maintained a strong adhesion and captured changes in underlying organs as volunteers performed various activities, including ...

UBTECH Robotics has unveiled Walker X, the latest version of its groundbreaking bipedal humanoid robot. With significant improvement in physical performance, autonomous intelligence and human to robot interactions, Walker X took another step closer to becoming the gold standard in humanoid robotics. Walker X has been upgraded to perform a wider range of household tasks including serving tea, pouring liquids, watering the flowers, wiping surfaces and operating the vacuum cleaner.  Specifically, its improvements in climbing stairs, walking up and down slopes, playing chess in real time, massaging with compliant control, visual navigation around objects, improved walking speeds, single-leg balancing, and walking on uneven terrain, thus fully demonstrating its diversified, intelligent in-home service capabilities. Equipped with both hardware and artificial intelligence upgrades combined with the updated physical ability to adapt to complex environments, Walker X is more advanced than e...

Lazzarini unveils Pearlsuite, a floating unit designed to revolutionize the seaside hospitality market. Designed for Italian mobility brand Jet Capsule, the Pearlsuite measures 7m in diameter, offering up to 22 sqm of interior space as well as a walkable external deck.  The concept is targeted to both existing and future beach resorts, providing them with the opportunity to expand their number of rooms in a matter of weeks, with zero carbon footprint, zero infrastructures, and at a very low implementation cost. The suites are 100% solar-powered, they are capable of self-producing all the needed energy for air conditioning, lighting, fridge propulsion, and other appliances. Meanwhile, the available storage in the hull can offer the possibility to locate additional power sources and systems.  The suites can be equipped with a gyroscope stabilizer system or a fuel cell hydrogen generator in order to produce energy onboard, ensuring functionality even on r...

  A small, rolling robot that understands you, supports you, and reacts to your needs. Samsung introduced a small ball-shaped robot that follows the owner of the house and helps with household chores. It is so far only a concept that could serve as a smart house monitor, as an assistant for sports or as a buddy for pets and children, for example. The rolling robot uses artificial intelligence (AI) to perform a series of tasks that include the operation of a smart home, safety, and physical health aspects. You can talk with it and ask it to perform various tasks, and it performs some automatically if you make a schedule in advance. The robot does not seem to be able to do much more at the moment. The extremely nicely produced video below shows a much larger vision. With the shape of a ball, the accessory is able to recognize and even follow its owner. It can also control other smart equipment at homes, such as robot vacuum cleaner and smart TV, as well as remind the user of appointm...

Japanese engineers have made a giant Gundam in Yokohama. The whole area looks like a rocket launch station. However, instead of a rocket, there’s a massive Gundam robot. For the nerds out there, yes this is the Gundam Model number RX-78F00. The giant robot is roughly 59 feet tall and has been made to scale. It weighs a massive 25 tons.  While making it to scale makes it seem pretty cool, this Gundam also moves (somewhat) like the real deal. Excluding the 18 flexible knuckles on its hands, the gigantic robot has 24 moving joints. This beast of a bot appears to be the world’s largest bipedal walking robot, and has become an iconic fixture along the Yokohama skyline. Fans began touring the exhibit, which includes an on-site museum and cafe, on December 19 last year. But there is dissent among faculty from some of the most prominent robotics departments in the U.S. about whether it qualifies as a walking robot at all. Because this Gundam appears to use a supporting structure to help it...