First supplies all participating schools with robot-building supplies: steel rods, motors, computerized remote controls, power switches and more.
Conventional myoelectric technology ignores the disconnected nerves and attempts to harness healthy but remote muscle signals (in the shoulder stump, say, or in the back) to power computerized stand-ins for a missing elbow or hand.
Alec Rivers, a Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and colleagues have created a prototype for a compact, computerized addition to power tools that automatically performs precision measuring and cutting.
Some of the studies were performed on a racing cycle with computerized measurement of power output, velocity and distance.
Like the earlier doctrine, the new one emphasizes speed, maneuverability and the power of computerized command and control to multiply the force of arms.
A number of approaches to combine the power of computerized data storage with advanced visualization technology have been developed in the past.
Mr. Struna says he could easily be driving one of those newfangled fuel-injected, power-everything computerized cars.
In the utility sector, I.B.M. has "smart grid" programs under way with several governments and companies, using sensors, software and computerized household meters to maintain power lines and reduce energy consumption.
Its Prius model, introduced in 1997, pioneered new technologies, including the first fully integrated hybrid engine, able to switch between gasoline and battery power, and electronic and computerized controls replacing heavy hydraulic systems.
Big, muscular Wall Street veterans like Goldman Sachs have the money, smarts and brute power to dominate this computerized battle, and many day traders may not even be aware how outgunned they now are.
