A new research center based at the University of Glasgow is setting out to develop the ‘cognitive’ cities of the future which will revolutionize urban life. The Centre for Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabling Cognitive…
Giving robots a more nimble grasp
Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity. [caption id="attachment_5464" align="alignnone" width="639"] A simple robotic gripper can adjust its grip using the environment. Here, a robot grips a rod lightly while pushing…
First applications from Sentinel-2A
[caption id="attachment_5380" align="alignnone" width="700"] Agriculture in Saudi Arabia[/caption] From agricultural monitoring to charting changing lands, early images from Europe’s new Sentinel-2A satellite show how the ‘colour vision’ mission’s critical observations can be used to keep…
Bristol-Myers Wins Approval for 1st Hepatitis C Type…
An experimental drug for one of the hardest-to-treat types of hepatitis C has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, adding to the surge of new options - all much more effective but extremely…
ESA hands over control of the MSG-4 weather…
[caption id="attachment_5371" align="alignnone" width="700"] MSG-4 liftoff[/caption] On 26 July at 09:30 GMT (11:30 CEST), ESA handed control of Europe’s last Meteosat Second Generation weather satellite, MSG-4, to EUMETSAT This follows the launch of the satellite on…