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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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PID control system of a light meter that measures and regulates the lighting of a lamp.
PROBLEM:
Today, photodiode is used to measure the light and it´s combined with a mathematical algorithm to reduce the error ... if we use the PID control to measure the light,
As COVID-19 has shown, challenge and crisis cross borders – impacting everywhere on Earth. However, innovation and ingenuity are also not constrained by geography. Detection of COVID-19 is an opportunity to find and apply the best and brightest of humanity. We're going to improve our design replicable,
The transportation sector accounts for about 30% of total United States energy needs and 70% of petroleum consumption. The average U.S. household spends nearly one-fifth of its total family expenditures on transportation, making it the most expensive spending category after housing. Global OEM’s produced approximately 100 million motor vehicles in 2019. Today,
A near frictionless electromagnetic vehicle braking system is described that includes a solenoid axial single-circuit direct current (DC) electro-permanent magnet configuration in the shape of a ring, controlled via an activator/regulator that interprets pressure applied to a vehicle’s brake pedal mechanism, and powered by an alternator/transformer device in conjunction with the vehicle’s battery.
When not in use,
Waveco is a technology innovator dedicated to contributing to the global green energy transformation. We do that by adopting the proven principle of the wind turbines to the ocean space beneath the waves.
Air and water are both fluids and follow the same physical laws. But water is much denser.
EriVan Bio LLC is a private biotechnology company located in Alachua, Florida that specializes in the development of exosome-based cosmeceutical products. EriVan Bio is focused on the development and clinical testing of novel,
Recently I met someone in the street who is in need of something but could not manage to explain because she was deaf and anyone in the street did not know any sign language. She asked me if I have any pen she could write with so that she can communicate with people for her urgent need.
Machine learning and PID controller allow us to control an autonomous car to drive around an object.
How does it work?
1) MACHINE LEARNING: In this project we will create a NEURAL NETWORK with "Python" and copy its weights to a network with forward propagation on the "Artemis RedBoard ATP" board programmed with "Arduino IDE",
Bridgefy is solving the problem of lack of access to the Internet and phone services, by already providing millions of people with software that lets them use mobile apps without Internet. The Bridgefy software is offered in the form of a Software Development Kit, to companies with mobile apps, 
Cancer treatments are frequently inaccurate as they can fail to precisely match with each specific patient/disease coupling. "CancerMate",
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