By Ren Shore<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/VOC-sensor-on-plant-1200-x-628-px.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="VOC Sensor on Plant" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>It seems almost impossible to imagine replicating the impressive olfactory sensing abilities of animals. Indeed, jewel beetles can detect a burning tree 50 miles away, and dogs can sniff out substances at concentrations of one part per trillion – that means detecting one drop of liquid in 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools – which is 1000 […] |autonomous, Faculty, Lobaton, News, Research, story
By NC State ECE<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_2137-1024x768.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_2137.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_2137-452x339.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_2137-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_2137-510x382.jpg 510w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">This is a guest post by Edgar Lobaton - Autonomous systems are becoming a reality in our everyday lives. A few examples that most of us have seen in the news include autonomous vehicles such as the Google Car, and autonomous stores such as Amazon Go. All of these systems require sophisticated sensing, machine learning and artificial intelligence in order to make them work, which fascinates me. |biobot, cockroach, Cyborg, Life, Lobaton, movement, Research
By cjbrown8<img width="992" height="558" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Edgar-biobot-motion-HEADER-992x558.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Edgar-biobot-motion-HEADER-992x558.jpg 992w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Edgar-biobot-motion-HEADER-992x558-452x254.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Edgar-biobot-motion-HEADER-992x558-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px">New research from North Carolina State University’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering offers insights into how far and how fast cyborg cockroaches – or biobots – move when exploring new spaces. The work moves researchers closer to their goal of using biobots to explore collapsed buildings and other spaces in order to identify survivors. […] |bozkurt, Experiment, Faculty, Graduate Students, In the News, Life, Lobaton, News, Research
By cjbrown8<img width="992" height="558" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/19.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/19.jpg 992w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/19-452x254.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/19-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px">Researchers at North Carolina State University’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have developed a combination of software and hardware that will allow them to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and insect cyborgs, or biobots, to map large, unfamiliar areas – such as collapsed buildings after a disaster. “The idea would be to release a […]
