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A team from Caltech, JPL and Dow have designed an autonomous, quadruped, climbing robot that can inspect the interior of complex chemical plant equipment. The motivation is for a safer alternative to human entry into confined spaces.
Problem
To get real-time physiological data of astronauts during spacewalk and training program.
Real time physiological parameter monitoring while working in dangerous environments such as mines, industrial sites, oil and gas industry, factories, etc.
Need of contactless routine monitoring for improved healthy living.
In the COVID-19 Pandemic,
The tragic hot-car death of the child in the “illustration photo” happened near my hometown. This simple concept could have easily prevented this and the many similar unintentional “child left in car” deaths that continue to occur. There are many “systems” to help prevent this, but it continues to happen. Obviously, this safety issue is NOT resolved!
A truck steer tire blowout can either be properly managed, OR it can turn into a horrific and devastating event. The truck tire blowout shown in my photo illustration killed two people because the out-of-control truck fatefully veered into their path of travel.
Implementing the use of Machine Learning and a big bottles anomaly database can be useful to detect defective bottles in the food and chemical industries mainly.
It is important to incorporate sound quality management principles into a manufacturer's operations.
HidraThor is a grounding system whose main electrode is at the same time a rehydration system. It consists of a large diameter branched copper channel, covered with hardened conductive cement, and a ferromagnetic element located around the electrode.
Its metal electrode is also a rehydration system formed by a main channel and secondary channels, allowing efficient rehydration.
Challenge - Making orbit is always a challenge of converting chemical energy into kinetic energy. Doing that in one stage means you must deal with a wide variety of flight conditions with one solution, but it also means that there is no integration needed before the rocket launches.
Imagine a sky falling situation, where DISCOM can only supply limited electricity, and urban household need 5-10 days autonomy.
I hereby submit a design idea of clinical grade prototype which is both ‘diagnostic’ and provides emergency ‘treatment’ by automatically diagnosing and switching to appropriate mode.
In swirl flame canteen burner, the mixing tube is fitted with lower part of burner barrel tangentially at 20-degree inclination with the barrel horizontal axis so that, perfect homogeneous mixing of gas air mixture is achieved due to swirling motion of mixture inside of barrel for tangential entry of high velocity mixture from mixing tube.
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