Researchers at Southern Methodist University (SMU) have received a second round of funding from the Pentagon for work on camera devices that can produce “a robust 3-D image… and for iris-detection security cameras.”
The research is being done by the electrical engineering department at SMU, including professors Marc Christensen (lead) and Dr. Delores Etter (NM B ’79).
The devices are called ‘Panoptes,’ and ‘Smart-Iris’ is the name of the recent innovations. Read the full story from Wired for more information on possible applications of this technology.
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New Scientist is reporting on a new surgical robot dubbed the ‘shape-shifting tube robot,’ which can “change its shape to skirt safely around vital organs and navigate inside arteries.”
The article details the development of the new robot by biomedical engineers looking to “greatly extend the range of procedures that can be carried out via minimally invasive surgery.”
The report includes a video demonstration of the concentric tube robot and its telescoping curved tubes.
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Finally, just in time for summer, Noah’s Ark Water Park in Wisconsin Dells, WI, is opening the country’s only looping waterslide. Click here to read how the ‘Scorpion’s Tail’ was engineered
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