La Luna cayendo sobre los picos de la Huasteca. Unas cuantas nubes que se fueron filtrando desde la ciudad le agregaron un poquito de drama. Una salida sin agenda, a veces salen mejor.
"Me gustan las personas que tienen que luchar por obtener algo. Los que teniéndolo todo en contra, salen adelante. Esta es la gente que me fascina. La gente fuerte".
- Isabel Allende
Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes.
James Clerk Maxwell never heard a radio.
He never saw television, radar, satellites, mobile phones or Wi-Fi.
Yet in 1865, his mathematics revealed the physical principle behind all of them.
Maxwell showed that a changing electric field creates a magnetic field, and a changing magnetic field creates an electric field. Together, they could sustain one another and travel through space as a wave.
When he calculated their speed, it matched the measured speed of light.
Light, Maxwell realised, was an electromagnetic wave.
But visible light was only part of what his theory allowed.
More than twenty years later, Heinrich Hertz generated and detected the invisible waves Maxwell’s equations had predicted.
Maxwell had died before seeing that confirmation.
He never witnessed the wireless civilisation that followed.
But every time information crosses a room, an ocean or the space between Earth and a satellite without a wire, it travels through the physical world Maxwell uncovered.
El robot del equipo δ, va avanzando, falta lo mas delicado que es la cámara HuskyLens, y entrenarla para la identificación de los objetos. Pero me gusta su avance.
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No eres un cuerpo buscando un camino. Eres conciencia recordando quién es. Cuando el corazón despierta, el universo deja de ser un lugar y se convierte en hogar.
Robot that swims and flies like a diving bird! 🦆
EPFL and Massachusetts Institute of Technology built a flapping-wing robot that does what diving birds do, swim underwater, burst through the surface, and fly away.
Under 300 grams. Wings that swap out for different sizes. Steerable tail.
The challenge is obvious. Air and water have completely different physics. A wing that works in one medium doesn't automatically work in the other.
Diving birds figured this out through evolution.
The robot team reverse-engineered it.
The wings use hydrophobic nanoparticles to repel water. Electric motor drives a crankshaft that pumps the wings at preset frequencies. Tail is motorized to adjust pitch.
Swims at almost 1 meter per second when flapping at 5 hertz. Flies at 6 meters per second at similar frequency. Those match actual diving birds. To transition from water to air, the robot needs to pitch at about 70 degrees to keep the wingtips from dragging.
Bio-inspired robotics is always so awesome to watch :)
Full article here: https://t.co/sWTc1l3Qwn
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