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Preview: IPC APEX and ATX/MD&M West THE GLOBAL HI-TECH ELECTRONICS PUBLICATION February, 2017


Medical Breakthrough: Mind-Controlled Robots


Duluth, MN —Mind control of robots has taken a giant leap forward ac- cording to researchers at the Univer- sity of Minnesota. Scientists there have made a major breakthrough that allows people to control a robot-


SPEA exhibits its brand-new 4080: the flying probe tester that catches up to bed-of-nails productivity. Product Preview begins on…


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Trans-Tec Team up with ADCO Circuits


Michigan-based EMS provider ADCO Circuits opts for im- proved service and support from Yamaha and Trans-Tec Worldwide.


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Research subjects at the University of Minnesota fitted with a specialized noninvasive brain cap were able to move a robotic arm just by imagining moving their own arms. (Credit: College of Science and Engineering)


Unprecedented Alternative To Battery Storage


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Surrey, UK — Ground-breaking re- search from the University of Surrey and Augmented Optics Ltd., in col- laboration with the University of Bristol, has developed potentially transformational technology that could revolutionize the capabilities of appliances that have previously re- lied on battery power. The new materials discovered


are between 1,000 and 10,000 times more powerful than existing battery technologies — scientists have creat- ed a supercapacitor. The technology is believed to have the potential for electric cars to travel similar dis- tances as gasoline-powered vehicles


without the need to stop for six- to eight-hour recharging breaks, and instead recharge completely in the time it takes to fill a car with gas. This development by Augment-


ed Optics could translate into very high energy density supercapacitors that make it possible to charge a mo- bile phone, laptop or other device in just a few seconds. The technology could have a


seismic impact across a number of industries, including transport, aero- space, energy generation, and house- hold applications such as mobile phones, flat screen electronic de- vices, and biosensors. Supercapacitor buses are al-


ready being used in China, but they have a very limited range. This tech- nology could allow them to travel a lot further between recharges. In- stead of recharging every two or three stops this technology could mean they only need to recharge every 20 or 30 stops and even that will only take a few seconds. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon


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DRAM and logic on a test chip (Credit: Yang-Kyu Choi).


At the 2016 International Elec-


tron Devices Meeting in San Francis- co, NASA’s Dong-Il Moon presented the new technology aimed at ensur- ing such spacecraft survive the in- tense radiation they will encounter on the journey. If a silicon chip were used as a


spacecraft, calculations suggest that it could travel at one-fifth the speed of light and reach the nearest stars


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ic arm using only their minds. The research has the potential to help millions of people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases. The study has been published online, “Noninvasive Electroencephalogram


Based Control of a Robotic Arm for Reach and Grasp Tasks,” in research journal Scientific Reports. “This is the first time in the


world that people can operate a ro- botic arm to reach and grasp objects in a complex 3D environment using only their thoughts without a brain implant,” says Bin He, a University of Minnesota biomedical engineering professor and lead researcher on the study. “Just by imagining moving their arms, they were able to move the robotic arm.” The noninvasive technique is called electroencephalography (EEG)


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Self-Healing Transistors for Chip-Scale Starships


Daejeon, South Korea — Working with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), NASA is pioneering the development of tiny spacecraft made from a single silicon chip that could slash interstellar ex- ploration times.


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