A new grant to North Carolina State University and several partners could make installing rooftop solar energy systems much less expensive and time consuming.__Researchers will use the five-year, $9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to design...
North Carolina State University is leading a nanotechnology research effort to create self-powered health monitoring sensors and devices to help people monitor their health and understand how the surrounding environment affects it.
The device might be a cap on your tooth or a band on your wrist. Whatever it is, researchers promise the wearer won’t notice it’s there.
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows users to better determine the amount of charge remaining in a battery in real time. That?s good news for electric vehicle drivers, since it gives them a better idea of when...
North Carolina State University researchers are launching an initiative to develop a computer that uses 3D integrated chip (3DIC) technology and is significantly more energy efficient than anything else on the market today. The work is supported by $1 million in...
NULLResearchers at N.C. State have found a way to remotely control cockroaches, according to the NCSU website. The researchers built a device that is attached to the back of a cockroach and includes sensors that help steer the cockroaches in different...
Jay Baliga’s invention of a small chip that fits into everyday items won him the National Medal for Technology and Innovation, the highest honor made to inventors. The chip has also saved a lot of energy.
Sometimes significant innovations result just from aggregating a number of different innovations into one product. So it is with a multi-institution research effort to exploit recent developments in wireless health monitoring systems and couple them with...
North Carolina State University (NC State) will lead a national nanotechnology research effort to create self-powered devices to help people monitor their health and understand how the surrounding environment affects it, the National Science Foundation announced...
Remote-control cockroach cyborgs are under development for search and rescue missions for earthquake survivors.
The sight of a cockroach scuttling across the floor makes most of us shudder, but in a disaster, roaches might prove to be our new best friends. Cockroaches that are surgically transformed into remote-controlled “biobots” could help locate earthquake...
Move over search-and-rescue dogs. First-responding cockroaches might be the next big thing in disaster response.
Finally, someone has designed a way to convert one of the world’s biggest pests into something useful. Using an electronic interface, a group of researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a method to steer and remotely control cockroaches....
They aren’t your typical first responders. But if researchers at North Carolina State University have their way, cockroaches equipped with tiny electronic backpacks may soon help search for earthquake survivors and take on other dangerous jobs where only they...
Researchers have been working on this for a very long time and now they have finally achieved it: scientists at North Carolina State University have successfully remotely controlled cockroaches. Watch the video. It’s both disgusting and impressive, but it could...
The robot in WALL-E may have befriended a cockroach, but humans are more likely to react with revulsion than joy at the sight of one. Would you feel differently, however, if you were trapped in a collapsed building or mine, and rescuers had sent a cockroach in to find...
By now, many people are familiar with the vision of a “smart” electrical grid and its promised improvements to our outdated national power infrastructure. Intelligently transporting, storing and managing the electricity produced by everything from nuclear...
North Carolina State University’s Entrepreneurs Garage, located on Centennial Campus, is a business startup incubator – a place where any student can brainstorm, collaborate and come up with new products and inventions.
They call it Seawolf V. On land, it looks like little more than a suitcase with wings. But put this vessel in the water, and the display of engineering wizardry would make James Cameron proud. Seawolf V can perform dives, barrel rolls and spins ? all with the press of...
North Carolina State University is leading a nanotechnology research effort to create self-powered health monitoring sensors and devices to help people monitor their health and understand how the surrounding environment affects it.
