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Pioneering vaulted thin shell floor cuts concrete by 75% Moravec‘s Paradox

Pioneering vaulted thin shell floor cuts concrete by 75%

The innovative design is being trumpeted as a major advance in the industry’s effort to reduce its carbon footprint. An interdisciplinary team of structural engineers, mathematicians and manufacturing experts from the Universities of Bath, Cambridge and Dundee has unveiled a full-scale demonstration of a thin-shell floor, which uses 60% less…
bubmag
February 21, 2022
Local innovators produce first Malaysian-made floor cleaning robots for hospitals Moravec‘s Paradox

Local innovators produce first Malaysian-made floor cleaning robots for hospitals

File photo of a robot produced, February 7, 2017. — AFP pic TAMPIN, Feb 19 ― In line with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4.0), a group of individuals from robotics solutions provider, Ideasparq Robotics Sdn Bhd, have created the first Malaysian-made floor cleaning robot for use in hospitals. Ideasparq Robotics…
bubmag
February 19, 2022
Disinfection Robotics Company PeroPure Raises Nearly $10M in New Funds Moravec‘s Paradox

Disinfection Robotics Company PeroPure Raises Nearly $10M in New Funds

(Source: PeroPure) Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio Chinese health technology firm PeroPure has successively completed Pre-A and Pre-A+ rounds of financing, with investment from DCM and ZhenFund, respectively. The two rounds have raised a total of nearly $10 million in new funds, to be allocated for the iteration of…
bubmag
February 18, 2022
Robotic Transcranial Doppler Improves PFO Detection After Stroke Moravec‘s Paradox

Robotic Transcranial Doppler Improves PFO Detection After Stroke

The use of a robotic-assisted device to perform transcranial Doppler ultrasound greatly improved the detection of right-to-left cardiac shunts in patients with presumed embolic strokes compared with the current standard of care — transthoracic echocardiography, in a new study. In the study, the robotic-assisted TCD device detected three times as…
bubmag
February 18, 2022
DeepMind uses AI to control plasma inside tokamak fusion reactor Moravec‘s Paradox

DeepMind uses AI to control plasma inside tokamak fusion reactor

For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to control the super-hot plasma inside a fusion reactor, offering a new way to increase stability and efficiency Technology 16 February 2022 By Matthew Sparkes Plasma inside the TCV fusion reactor in Switzerland Curdin Wüthrich/SPC/EPFL Fusion reactors promise cheap, abundant and…
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February 16, 2022