Meet Charlie and Billy, the most adorable little robots in all the land.
Billy, the first iteration, is a combination of 3D-printed parts, an Arduino Leonardo, and dual DC motors to form a hexapod robot. Billy is controlled through a simple joystick app on the phone, and can handle various types of terrain based on his build.
Charlie is the second prototype, and is much smaller and smarter. Charlie is able to walk upside down in case he ever tips over, and is able to traverse slopes as steep as 45 degrees. He can even climb over objects as tall as he is.
Both Billy and Charlie were created by Jonathan Spitz, a mechanical engineer getting his PhD at the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel.
CoLucid Pharmaceuticals has raised $37.1 million to finance late-stage clinical trials on a potential migraine drug that the company hopes will be a safer alternative to currently available migraine treatments.
If the Internet of Things (IoT) is the tech industry’s latest gold rush, it stands to reason that a plethora of startups will set up shop to provide the picks and shovels. But, actually, CloudRail, a burgeoning startup hailing out of Mannheim, Germany, is attempting to solve a genuine pain-point for developers and the wider IoT and ‘smart’ devices market in general.
The company, which has just scored a seed investment of €540k from Leonardo Venture, BWM, and various unnamed angels, is developing technology to enable developers to write to a single API that will connect to and handle data translations for an ever growing list of IoT devices and related services.
Garmin has revealed that its acquiring South Africa-based startup iKubu, a company that was nearing the final stages of building a bike radar that tells cyclists the speed and distance of vehicles approaching from behind.
The low-energy (LE) radar is placed on the rear of the bike, with the data sent wirelessly to a device mounted on the bike’s handlebars. It can detect rear-approaching cars at a distance of 140 meters.
n the world of online education, Lynda.com is a senior citizen.
The company started 20 years ago with a web design book, hit profitability in 1997, migrated to the web by 2002, and didn’t take any funding until 2013. Today, it’s announcing its second round of funding, a massive $186 million.
La sesión de arranque de la iniciativa Etorkizuna Elkarrekin Eraikiz (E3!) se llevará a cabo mañana jueves, día 15 de enero, a partir de las 9 de la mañana en la Sala 2310 (Edificio 2, 3ª Planta) del campus de Loramendi de MGEP en Mondragón.
Además de los proyectos integrados en Etorkizuna Elkarrekin Eraikiz (E3!) participarán promotores de proyectos empresariales de…:
La 4ª generación del BAC de MONDRAGON.
La 7ª generación de la División de Ingeniería y Servicios Empresariales –MISE.
Como consecuencia, serán 12 los proyectos que serán objeto de presentación en el marco de este evento de arranque de la iniciativa Etorkizuna Elkarrekin Eraikiz (E3!)
El BEC (Bilbao Exhibition Centre), la principal Feria de Muestras de Euskadi y con una deuda acumulada de más de 300 millones de euros, ha presentado su balance de 2014 sin aportar ningún dato de su déficit el pasado año ni la marcha del plan de choque implantado hace dos años. La instalación ubicada en Barakaldo tuvo más actividad: celebró ferias, convenciones o actos lúdicos durante 158 días y durante dos meses y medio estuvo sin uso, cuando en 2013 los eventos ocuparon 130 días y las instalaciones permanecieron vacías más de cuatro meses.
A new study shows that placental cells could potentially treat and repair damaged nerves, leading the way to new treatment for stroke patients.
The findings indicate that PLacental eXpanded (PLX) cells, produced by Israeli biotech start-up Pluristem, protect PC12 cells – rat-derived cells that behave similarly to and are used as stand-ins to study human nerve cells.
