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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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This is a proven, flight tested aircraft design but it has not reached the production and manufacture phase yet. The Aerocat is a 4 person aircraft with turbine powerplant. It is all composite cabon-fiber construction.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has developed an imaging device called an active pixel sensor that is inexpensive and easy to fabricate. The active pixel sensor is designed to perform at least as well as conventional charge coupled device (CCD) imagers without all the drawbacks. CCD imagers are susceptible to radiation damage, require good light shielding to avoid smear,
Problem Statement:
According to ARPA-e, in 2013, U.S power plants consumed 38.2 quads of primary energy to generate 12.4 quads of electricity with an average electricity generation efficiency of 33%; 67% of the primary energy was wasted as heat and 2 billion metric tons of CO2 were emitted to the environment.
SPORTS LOVER - EMPOWER A SPORTS COMMUNITY.
1. MARKET ANALYSIS
Many sports require a playground and many people feel difficulty in finding playgrounds as their wishes. There are many playgrounds with more suitable locations and prices that sports players may miss. In reality, there is no application that helps people find playgrounds quickly and efficiently.
Fiber Optic Photovoltaic Cell of my invention, solves the problem of mismatch layers of different semiconductors, also in real terms, allows you to use part of the long-term solar spectrum. The cell is constructed from semiconductive layers of specified intervals of energy applied to a side surface side by side on the transparent / fibre / core.
Atrivu Synthetic Intelligence SmartGrid Solution (ASISGS) truly brings smarts via cognition to our nation's and the world power grids. ASISGS is a cloud-based service that truly provides the smarts for the nation's power grids. The seven domains of the current "smart grid" include bulk generation, transmission, distribution, markets, operations, service provider and customer. All may connect with ASISGS.
The rivet, a simple fastener that has been around forever. How about making
a rivet that is approximately one half the weight of an aluminum rivet
and nearly the same strength? Carbon fiber rivets are the answer.
Noise is not just a matter of comfort, but also a matter of health! Especially in industrialized regions, noise pollution was often an underestimated factor regarding its physical effects on human beings.
We developed the prototype of a sound insulation window with fully integrated innovative lowcost loudspeakers that solve the remaining problems of state-of-the-art windows.
NASA’s Langley Research Center is developing a robotic arm with lightweight joints that provide a wide range of motion. The envisioned design provides users with a long reach and numerous degrees of freedom. The arm, ideal for use in aquatic environments or for manipulation of light terrestrial loads, consists of articulating booms connected by antagonistic cable tension elements.
Sangi is a low cost robot which can perform localization and mapping of the environment without using any range sensors or vision. Our robot Sangi will navigate around the house while carrying blind or disabled people to different locations.
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