TIME selects novel muon navigation system as one of year’s best inventions
The muometric wireless navigation system (MuWNS), which uses particles from space called cosmic-ray muons to enable navigation underwater and underground, ...
Tag: navigation
Peer-led patient navigation helps minoritized patients engage in their own mental healthcare
INDIANAPOLIS – Research scientists led by Johanne Eliacin, PhD, of the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) and Regenstrief Institute, ...
NIH-funded fly study to pinpoint brain’s role in navigation
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Robust navigation is both critical for survival and dauntingly complex: Think of the speed and agility of an ...
Scientists ID cells involved in correcting errors during spatial navigation
At a glance: Credit: Harvey lab At a glance: Researchers identify a subset of neurons that become active when mice ...
Emulating how krill swim to build a robotic platform for ocean navigation
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Picture a network of interconnected, autonomous robots working together in a coordinated dance to navigate the pitch-black ...
Quantum sensor for a future navigation system tested aboard Royal Navy ship
A prototype quantum sensor with potential applications in GPS-free navigation, developed at Imperial College London, has been tested in collaboration ...
Human hippocampus theta oscillations code goal distance during spatial navigation
A research team led by Dr. WANG Liang from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...
Study identifies a new building block in the navigation system of fish; boundary vector cells in central telencephalon of goldfish enable unique encoding of position, documented here for the first time in the largest group of vertebrates
Study identifies a new building block in the navigation system of fish; boundary vector cells in central telencephalon of goldfish ...
A novel robotic bronchoscope system for navigation and biopsy of pulmonary lesions
Cancers are notoriously known for their high mortality rate and increasing incidence worldwide. Among them, lung cancer is arguably one ...
Researchers unveil smart contact lens, capable of implementing AR-based navigation
With the advent of the Metaverse era, there have been growing expectations that virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) ...
Smart contact lens with navigation function, made with 3D printer!
Dr. Seol Seung-Kwon's Smart 3D Printing Research Team at KERI and Professor Lim-Doo Jeong's team at Ulsan National Institute of ...
Illinois Tech professor Boris Pervan receives prestigious Johannes Kepler Award from the Institute of Navigation
CHICAGO—Illinois Institute of Technology Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Boris Pervan was awarded the 2022 Johannes Kepler Award by ...
A navigation system with 10 centimeter accuracy
Researchers of Delft University of Technology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and VSL have developed an alternative positioning system that is more ...
UC to work with NASA to improve drone navigation
NASA awarded a small business grant to the University of Cincinnati and a Pennsylvania company to develop better autonomous navigation ...
Gupta earns prestigious NSF CAREER award to build predictive models that can improve robot navigation and object interaction
ECE Assistant Professor Saurabh Gupta recently received a coveted NSF CAREER award grant for young faculty to conduct research that will improve robots’ abilities ...
Honeycomb maze reveals role of hippocampus in navigation decisions
Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London have discovered that the hippocampus creates a vector-based representation to ...
Spacecraft navigation uses x-rays from dead stars
The remnants of a collapsed neutron star, called a pulsar, are magnetically charged and spinning anywhere from one rotation per ...
New AI navigation prevents crashes
What do you call a broken satellite? Credit: Lisa Britton/UC Creative What do you call a broken satellite? Today, it’s ...
Certain brain rhythms coordinate cognitive map in human spatial navigation
Chinese researchers have reported that slow rhythmic fluctuations in brain activity—theta oscillations in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)–entorhinal cortex (EC) ...
NIH-funded modern “white cane” brings navigation assistance to the 21st century
Equipped with a color 3D camera, an inertial measurement sensor, and its own on-board computer, a newly improved robotic cane ...