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One aspect of how industrial 3D printing works that is hard to grasp at first, is its ability to build parts inside of other parts. A metal 3D printer makes an object one hair-thin horizontal layer at a time. So imagine 3D printing an item like a chain. It’s constructed already linked in completely solid circles. By contrast, in traditional manufacturing, individual links are first straight, then bent, and joined together one at a time, which is slower, more labor intensive, and has weak points at each link. It’s the same age-old manufacturing principle for jewelry as it is for…
A computer that stores and processes data in a single chip is able to tell apart different people’s handwriting. Professor Shahar Kvatinsky, of the Technion, in Haifa, says combining its RAM and CPU allows it to function much more like a human brain, and opens up a whole new world of opportunities. To demonstrate its capabilities, he and his team presented the chip with different examples of handwritten letters. The chip learned which one was which with each example, and achieved a 97 per cent accuracy in recognition. “We like to describe a computer as a ‘brain’, but entirely separate…
As a child growing up in Israel, Eliad Peretz was fascinated by space and the night sky. His goal, which he laid out in a five-year plan that he wrote as a fifth-grader, was to work for the organization whose mission was to address the big questions he wanted to pursue: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. “I’m living my dream,” Peretz, who currently works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., told JNS in a phone interview. On May 1, 2023, the American Technion Society will celebrate Peretz, a graduate of the Technion’s aerospace engineering faculty…
‘I can be a stand-up guy again’: Valley veteran regains ability to walk with new technology Richard Neider walks around Touchstone Rehabilitation with a big smile on his face. He has spent the past two months learning how to walk again with the use of the ReWalk Exoskeleton. “During Operation Iraqi Freedom I sustained a spinal cord injury that took my walking away,” Neider said. Life in a wheelchair was a big adjustment for Neider. Over the past 10 years, the Army veteran has learned to adapt – thinking he’d never walk again… until now.
Using innovative 3D printing technology, scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology had been able to help amputee children by creating prosthetic hands for them, an info-video revealed on Sunday. The children are involved in the design of the artificial hand and often view it in comic-book heroes’ terms such as Iron Man’s hand or Superman’s hand. The finished prosthetic is able to hold lightweight objects and provide the children a better sense of balance. The most immediate benefit is psychological, as the children no longer feel that their amputation makes them unusual and instead have a “cool bionic hand”…