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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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Seeing the world around you in a new way opens ups many exciting new possibilities. LIght Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is doing just that by using lasers to measure distances very precisely. It is currently one of the key enabling factors behind the autonomous driving push.
RIM-D2 is a low-cost 3D-printed hand prosthesis that is capable of responding to nerve impulses picked up by an EMG sensor that processes the signal transmitted by the brain through the nervous system. It is also developed parametrically;
We address a solution in economically appropriate water purification technologies, especially for rural areas.
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As known to persons skilled in electronics, filters have an essential role.
In fact, starting from a source frequency signal, it’s necessary to process it and obtain another one having phase and amplitude according to a wanted predetermined frequency.
In the telecommunications field particulary, where high amplification is necessary,
Millions of hours are wasted worldwide on the road. The Vertical Take-off and Landing aircrafts (VTOL) have the potential to radically improve urban and interurban mobility, giving people back the time lost in their daily commutes.
Within the present concept we tried to develop a "best in class,
The smart wireless detonator is the future for the mining industry. The most advanced blasting system today provides efficient blast with Radio Frequency (RF) antennas to communicate, but they lack automation in mines which is an important part for an efficient blast. Our Smart detonators adjust the data of blast load, fragmentation and vibration control,
Since the aerial delivery system is already in action nowadays. But to make our aerial vehicle lighter and compact. We introduce a counter-rotating, coaxial vehicle. Making flying vehicles smaller, simpler, and lower cost is the goal of this work. There’s a developing interest in the design and control of counter-rotating, coaxial prop-rotor aerial vehicles.
Technological developments are moving ever faster in our modern society, and so are the pressure put on industries to produce safe and sustainable products within a circular economy perspective. Hybrid assemblies, joints of dissimilar materials, are key in modern product design and found everywhere - in your smartphone, car, TV, dishwasher, in planes and so on. However,
MoonTrap system saves up to 95% on transportation costs when delivering raw materials to space for 3D printers, as well as rocket fuel. Currently, the delivery of raw materials for 3D space printers costs as much as the delivery of finished products. There are benefits to printing spacecraft parts in space,
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