POSTS TAGGED AS electrical engineering

Russian Hand and Boston arm: Prosthetics, History

The Russian Hand came first, but the Boston Arm was better
“In 1961, Norbert Weiner, the father of cybernetics, broke his [MORE]

Electronic Skin

Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES)
Engineers at the National University of Singapore have invented what they call “Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin” [MORE]

Making Electronic Skin Like the Real Thing

Electronic Skin
The video in this piece, from the American Chemical Society, describes materials engineering work at Stanford University which aims [MORE]

Georgia Tech’s Remote “Robotarium”

Robotarium
They call it the “Robotarium”—a new facility at Georgia Tech which allows robotics engineers across the country (perhaps internationally too) [MORE]

Microsupercapacitors for Wearable Devices

Boron-Infused Microsupercapacitor for Wearables
First, some simple definitions. A capacitor is an electrical device that stores electrostatic field energy between its [MORE]

Memristor Computer Chips

Memristor
In electrical engineering theory, there are four classes of circuitry: resistors, capacitors, inductors, and memristors. The first three have been [MORE]

Molecular Light Switch

Molecule Size Switch
The smallest possible electrical switch would be no more than a single molecule which could change its shape [MORE]

Ethical Robots?

Robot Gives a Greeting – Tuffs University
Maybe it’s not that hard. “Moral competence in social robots” raises two dilemmas: what [MORE]

Vision Correcting Display Technology

Vision Correcting Display
Desktops, laptops, tablets, smart phones and tv’s are common electronics in every hospital, and many users, whether they [MORE]

Ultra-Low Powered Wireless Sensor

PsiKick Chip
A crucial limitation on the thousands of devices conceived to make up the “internet of things” is their power [MORE]

Body-Attachable Nanowire Sensors

Silver Nanowire Sensor
Capacitance means an ability to store an electrical charge, and engineers at North Carolina State University have developed [MORE]

Nanoelectronic Synapse

In some ways, the microtransistor and neural synapse are similar-they both convey information in a complex network.  But they [MORE]

Energy Scavaging from “The Air”

In an experiment that electrical engineering researchers at Georgia Tech carried out, it was demonstrated that enough “ambient” electromagnetic [MORE]

Gesture-Based Computer Commands

Alen Stojanov
This is the first Bachelor of Science thesis I’ve found for Tagline, but it is fascinating in terms [MORE]