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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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We as a team got an idea to make an innovative product for agroindustry in Indian. Indian farmers are nowadays changing from old farm techniques to modern age techniques and tools. The modern tools and machinery used for harvesting makes manual work simple and less time consuming,
Abstract— In PWM (Pulse Width Modulation), by modulating the relative time intervals corresponding to conduction and non-conduction periods,
Abstract—Providing street lighting is one the most important and expensive responsibilities of a city. Street lighting is a particularly critical concern for public authorities in developing countries because of its strategic importance for economic and social stability. Continuous efforts are being made for alternative and sustainable power generation techniques.
The present work highlights the design and development of a prototype for automating plastering work in construction industry. The building construction is one of the most unfamiliar R&D activities in the robotics and automation community. Machines are capable of giving higher output with accuracy,
In an attempt to understand the cause, and find a solution for Parkinson disease, I thought about some similarities on a problem that I was having with an old computer. I had upgraded some programs, but had not renewed the hardware,
Since March of 1876, when the first successful voicecall was made, the era of communication has moved to video calling resulting in the use of 3 organs, namely ears to listen, eyes to see, and mouth to interact verbally.
Growing population of older adults wants to live independent life style in their homes or senior communities. While older people can look out for each other, they cannot help much when one of them falls on the floor except to make a phone call.
We suggest a new design of adaptive suspension systems of vehicles with better technical characteristics in comparison with existing designs. There have been developed the following main suspension components of vehicles: 1) a lockable adaptive shock absorber with a wide range of control performance,
To aid rescue operations for victims trapped under rubble in the aftermath of an earthquake, a wristband will be used, which upon activation, will measure the pulse of the victim and transmit it through a set of drones hovering over the affected areas to a central database.
Why do we turn on the lights when it’s sunny outside? For many of us, artificial light has completely replaced natural light. Lighting can account for up to 50% of building electricity consumption, and up to 56% of energy bills in offices.
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