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A team of Spanish university is building a submarine that will compete in the prestigious international competition RoboSub. The device, dubbed “Isaac Peral y Caballero ‘, incorporates technology never before seen in the tournament. Next July 16 will face the devices in the world’s best universities.
Students of the UNED, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and the Complutense University are building the submarine ‘Isaac Peral y Caballero’. Named after the Spanish inventor, the unit will participate in international competition RoboSub , which will take place on July 16 in San Diego (USA).
They face off with top universities worldwide. “We have universities that are among the top 100 worldwide,” explains Julio Guillen, a student of Computer Systems Engineering, UNED and Software team leader of the project. “We are the first Spanish team to compete,” he adds.
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Researchers at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Rey Juan Carlos University), with the support of CDTI and the Royal Academy of Sciences, have created AIsoy 1, a robot that perceives, moves and decisions. The unit has been selected as a finalist in the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS, the American Society of Operations Research.
“It’s all an effort to investigate, further and realize the current developments in the field of artificial intelligence to bring the public half a technologically advanced product to revolutionize the consumer robotics,” said David Rios, a famous mathematician University Rey Juan Carlos and youngest member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences (RAC), as Scientific Advisor to work on this project.
AISoy 1 is a social pet robot able to learn, empathize and interact with both humans and robots, whether in the physical world or in virtual social networks. In our image, the AISoy1 have memory and learn very fast. Acquire a unique personality based on their own experience and the interactions they have with the person or persons who cares for them. Are scheduled to entertain, but also have his ‘sweetheart’.
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Carlos III of Madrid ( UC3M ) are coordinating an international project which aims to develop a new concept in gear without contact between parts , based on magnetic forces , which prevents friction and wear and makes lubrication unnecessary parts.
The aim of the project MagDrive is to design, build and test a prototype mechanical transmission contactless between the parties and be able to operate in cryogenic conditions with minimal maintenance , virtually nonexistent. ” In addition, such a mechanism, which is responsible for transmitting power between the various elements into a machine , it must be possible to carry into space and have to operate for years without any damage or any such thing , ” says Professor Joseph Luis Perez Diaz , Department of Mechanical Engineering UC3M, who is the coordinator of this new European research project under the Seventh Framework Programme ( FP7) which lasts three years. The features basic design that are emerging researchers to ensure that there is no physical contact between the moving parts of the transmission is based on the use of magnetic forces. “What we try to investigate in the framework of this project is whether the efficiency of these mechanisms is appropriate and whether they have the properties that we think can have, ” explains Professor Perez Diaz.
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A scale model of the future supersonic car Bloodhound SSC was unveiled in the halls of the Farnborough Air Show , held from 19 to 25 July 2010 .
It is an opportunity to review this project which aims not only to reach 1,000 miles per hour (more than 1 600 km / h ) on land but also to encourage careers in science among schoolchildren and students United Kingdom.
The design and construction of a car destined to fly the supersonic land speed record , during an attempt in 2012 , does not really seem in tune with the times . And for good reason : far from being models in terms of energy saving vehicles addressing this record are so far technically those everyday that any transfer of innovation to the automotive market seems remote . What has been pushed Richard Noble and his team embark on the adventure Bloodhound SSC (Super Sonic Car) with support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ( EPSRC research council for science Engineering and Physical Sciences )?
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If you could apply to any aircraft worldwide, according to the researchers’ calculations, the paint would save more than 4 million tons of fuel per year
Promises to reduce fuel consumption and thus emissions of carbon dioxide the new paint developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Research (IFAM) in Bremen, Germany. To arrive at the result, scholars have taken inspiration from nature and in particular the skin of the shark and tried to imitate it using the most modern methods to create nanostructured materials.
The shark is in fact an elaborate coating consisting of dermal collagen fibers that allows to reduce the turbulence of water due to friction.
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The Research Centre of Manufacturing Technologies of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT) has developed innovative solutions for machining titanium alloys.
=> Significant reduction of cost and tool wear
By optimizing the cutting parameters such as speed and stability of the cutting process, the new method, called LSC can save time and money and, in particular, to reduce the wear of cutting tools . It also allows the machining of titanium with constraints of reduced temperature (low temperature).
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Researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization (MPIDS) Gottingen (Lower Saxony) and Harvard University (Massachusetts, USA) have managed to develop a means of eliminate the turbulence that appear in a pipe [1].
This method should find applications particularly in the areas of pipelines and networks of urban drinking water, the turbulence causing enormous loss of energy – a turbulent flow can indeed eat up to 10 times more energy that a laminar flow. For the first time, a solution of this type would save more energy than it consumes.
“This is the rear area of turbulence, where the interface with laminar flow, which is crucial for the elimination of vortices,” explains Bjorn Hof of MPIDS. It was at this place that produce the phenomena responsible for turbulence. Researchers have simulated the behavior of the fluid by changing the settings to this interface: they have reduced the flow velocity at the center of the pipe and have increased on the sides, while maintaining a constant flow. They then found that turbulence disappears under these conditions.
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Professor Ole Sigmund received this year the price Villum Kann Rasmussen in the field of topology optimization. The award honored his work on the ideal distribution of matter in a given volume under stress. In practice, this example to remove the maximum on a plane to make it lighter while not compromising safety. However, the holes and made in the field are rarely circular, as demonstrated by Ole Sigmund.
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Worldwide, wind energy is “booming”. The symbolic level of 100,000 MW wind power installed worldwide has been surpassed, from 93,907.5 MW in 2007 to 120,823.5 MW in 2008. With 3287.9 MW of installed wind power, the United Kingdom was in 2008, the ninth largest producer of wind energy in the world and fourth in Europe, just after France. Of all the existing energy systems, wind is one that develops more rapidly in the United Kingdom.
Despite the disappointing outcome of climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009, the British Government reaffirms its commitment to the fight against climate change and intends to achieve the legally binding, requiring it to reduce 80% gas emissions greenhouse emissions by 2050 and produce 15% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Thus, the United Kingdom with oil and gas from the North Sea will be depleted by 2030, decided to capitalize on its wind resources are among the largest in Europe.
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A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU) has obtained a clean line and manufacturing of magnetic devices nanoimanes large industrial application.
It is known that current technology tends to design tools increasingly smaller, and that nanotechnology, although still in its infancy, is a
fashionable topic in our society. Who has not heard of
nanotubes, nanoparticles, the
nanoimanes, etc?
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Students of the UNED, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and the Complutense University are building the submarine ‘Isaac Peral y Caballero’. Named after the Spanish inventor, the unit will participate in international competition RoboSub , which will take place on July 16 in San Diego (USA).
It is an opportunity to review this project which aims not only to reach 1,000 miles per hour (more than 1 600 km / h ) on land but also to encourage careers in science among schoolchildren and students United Kingdom.