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Chinese Train that Never Stops - Awescience.com. Stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy and time. But in this brilliant new Chinese train innovation No time is wasted- get on & off the bullet train without the train stopping. The bullet train is moving all the time. A mere 5 min stop per station (elderly passengers cannot be hurried) will result in a total loss of 5 min x 30 stations or 2.5 hours of train journey time! How it works (view the movie): 1. To board the train : The passengers at a station embarks onto to a connector cabin way before the train even arrives at the station. While the train is still moving away from the station, those passengers will board the train from the connector cabin mounted on the train’s roof. 2.

Source: RealityPod. | MOS Transistors. Robby Leonardi | hey. Grove - Starter Kit Plus. [中文] Preface – Getting Started Welcome to enter the world of Grove! Grove is a collection of various modular sensors and actuators that help you dive into and enjoy the electronic world without jitter. Before we discuss those Grove modules one by one, you need to seat yourself and finish some preparations.1. What’s Arduino? Arduino is a flexible and easy-to-learn open source development platform that enjoys great fame among makers, geeks and interactive artists.

It ignited the prosperity of the ongoing maker movement. 3. Now you have got yourself ready for the Grove exploration. Modules Introduction 1. The Grove base shield plugs into an Arduino and is the foundation of the Grove system. In the center, surrounded by the yellow lines, are 13 digital I/O ports. The Grove compatible sensors contained in this pack will use one of the following ports: a digital port, an analog port, or an I2C port. 2. Description Serving as a ubiquitous button, this one is a basic part for lazy hands. 3. 4. 5. Human robot getting closer: iCub robot must learn from its experiences.

A robot that feels, sees and, in particular, thinks and learns like us. It still seems like science fiction, but if it's up to University of Twente (UT) researcher Frank van der Velde, it won't be. In his work he wants to implement the cognitive process of the human brain in robots. The research should lead to the arrival of the latest version of the iCub robot in Twente. This human robot (humanoid) blurs the boundaries between robot and human. Decades of scientific research into cognitive psychology and the brain have given us knowledge about language, memory, motor skills and perception. We can now use that knowledge in robots, but Frank van der Velde's research goes even further. "The application of cognition in technical systems should also mean that the robot learns from its experiences and the actions it performs.

Possible first iCub in the Netherlands The arrival of the iCub robot at the University of Twente should signify the next step in this research. Robot guide dog. Human robot getting closer: iCub robot must learn from its experiences.