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Mit Antikörpern Tumore schnell erkennen
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/1/4 18:02)
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Antikörper bekämpfen Viren und Bakterien. Sie heften sich auch an Krebszellen?in einer typischen, charakteristischen Weise. Fraunhofer-Wissenschaftler nutzen diese Eigenschaft, um Krebszellen in Gewebeproben nachzuweisen. Solche Schnelltests können Chirurgen bereits während der Operation anwenden?innerhalb weniger Minuten und ohne teures Gerät.
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Kosmische Gläser für die Weltraumforschung
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/1/4 18:01)
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Wie bildeten sich aus Gesteinspartikeln Asteroiden und Planeten? Dieser Frage
gehen Wissenschaftler der Universitäten Münster und Braunschweig in einem
Experiment nach. Fraunhofer-Forscher haben für den Versuch Kugeln aus
einem Spezialglas entwickelt. Sie bilden die Zusammensetzung der Gesteinspartikel
möglichst naturgetreu in kleinem Maßstab ab.
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Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis für effizientere Elektronik in Mobilfunknetzen
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2015/12/10 18:12)
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Professor Dr. Oliver Ambacher, Leiter des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Angewandte Festkörperphysik IAF, wurde auf den Innovation Days 2015 in Berlin mit dem Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis geehrt. Damit würdigte die Beckurts-Stiftung seinen Beitrag zur Entwicklung hocheffizienter Leistungsverstärker aus dem Halbleiter Galliumnitrid für moderne Mobilfunk-Basisstationen.
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December Alumnus Spotlight: Huan Dong, Class of?07
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2015/12/5 7:07)
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Huan Dong, Class of ?07, is currently a medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He continually finds parallels between medicine and theater, and says that his theater training is helping him become a compassionate physician.
TDPS graduate. Kaiser Permanente Theater Program Educator. HIV Prevention teacher in Tanzania. Medical student. Not yet 30, Huan Dong has an impressive resume, and a career path that?s encompassed many disciplines and taken him to multiple countries. Through it all, his love of theater remains constant, as has his passion to find the career that best suits his talents.
Huan?s love of theater began in middle school and, despite his parents? reservations about pursuing theater in college, he continued to perform on stage and work backstage at UC Berkeley. He knew he wanted to double-major, and studying Theater and Performance Studies was an easy choice. The other major was harder to pin down. Says Huan, ?I have many different hobbie ...
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December Faculty/Staff Spotlight: Lisa Wymore
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2015/12/5 7:03)
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Associate Professor and Department Vice Chair of TDPS Lisa Wymore is Co-artistic Director of Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts with Sheldon B. Smith. Recently appointed artists-in-residence at ODC Theater San Francisco, they are working on their newest production ?Zero Return.? Lisa?s interests lie in the intersection between technology and dance performance. Below, Lisa elaborates on her passions and her projects.
Can you tell us about Disappearing Acts ?
Disappearing Acts is a collective with my husband and partner Sheldon Smith. We started the company in Chicago years ago and have been in the Bay Area since 2004. Over the years we?ve added a new collaborator, Ian Heisters (a technologist, dancer and improviser), and we often perform with James Graham (a TDPS alumnus) and Peiling Kao (a Bay Area dancer).
Sheldon and I founded the company because we were interested in layering video with performance. We engage with video, sound, and digital elements and also ...
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December Student Spotlight: Karin Shankar
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2015/12/5 6:54)
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Karin is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies. She recently launched P[art]icipatory Urbanisms, a web-based publication that examines the intersections between performance, urban environments and politics.
Karin Shankar?s interest in cities can be traced to growing up in Mumbai, a city with a population of about 20 million, the biggest film industry in the world, and a vibrant tradition of theater. This early introduction to the intersection of performance and city life was the seedling for Shankar?s latest endeavor, the web-based publication P[art]icipatory Urbanisms . Says Shankar, now a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, ?The interdisciplinary study of cities today is so important. We live in a moment in which the world is more urban than ever before. As a scholar, I?m passionate about thinking about many aspects of urban space?the impact of rapid urbanization, public art and performance, marginalized spaces in the city, raced and queer spaces, an ...
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Research Project: Soft Robots
from Daniela Rus
(2015/12/4 0:10)
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Soft robots provide an opportunity to bridge the gap between machines and people. In contrast to hard bodied robots, soft robots have bodies made out of intrinsically soft and/or extensible materials (e.g. silicone rubbers) that can deform and absorb much of the energy arising from a collision.
Soft robots have a continuously deformable structure with muscle-like actuation that emulates biological systems and results in a relatively large number of degrees of freedom as compared to their hard-bodied counterparts. Soft robots have the potential to exhibit unprecedented adaptation, sensitivity, and agility. Soft bodied robots promise to 1) Move with the ability to bend and twist with high curvatures and thus can be used in confined spaces; 2) Deform their bodies in a continuous way and thus achieve motions that emulate biology; 3) Adapt their shape to the environment employing compliant motion and thus manipulate un-modeled objects, or move on rough terrain and exhibit resilience; 4) ...
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Research Project: Soft Robots
from Daniela Rus
(2015/12/4 0:10)
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Soft robots provide an opportunity to bridge the gap between machines and people. In contrast to hard bodied robots, soft robots have bodies made out of intrinsically soft and/or extensible materials (e.g. silicone rubbers) that can deform and absorb much of the energy arising from a collision.
Soft robots have a continuously deformable structure with muscle-like actuation that emulates biological systems and results in a relatively large number of degrees of freedom as compared to their hard-bodied counterparts. Soft robots have the potential to exhibit unprecedented adaptation, sensitivity, and agility. Soft bodied robots promise to 1) Move with the ability to bend and twist with high curvatures and thus can be used in confined spaces; 2) Deform their bodies in a continuous way and thus achieve motions that emulate biology; 3) Adapt their shape to the environment employing compliant motion and thus manipulate un-modeled objects, or move on rough terrain and exhibit resilience; 4) ...
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Research Project: Soft Robots
from Daniela Rus
(2015/12/4 0:10)
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Soft robots provide an opportunity to bridge the gap between machines and people. In contrast to hard bodied robots, soft robots have bodies made out of intrinsically soft and/or extensible materials (e.g. silicone rubbers) that can deform and absorb much of the energy arising from a collision.
Soft robots have a continuously deformable structure with muscle-like actuation that emulates biological systems and results in a relatively large number of degrees of freedom as compared to their hard-bodied counterparts. Soft robots have the potential to exhibit unprecedented adaptation, sensitivity, and agility. Soft bodied robots promise to 1) Move with the ability to bend and twist with high curvatures and thus can be used in confined spaces; 2) Deform their bodies in a continuous way and thus achieve motions that emulate biology; 3) Adapt their shape to the environment employing compliant motion and thus manipulate un-modeled objects, or move on rough terrain and exhibit resilience; 4) ...
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Research Project: Mobility on Demand with Self-Driving Cars
from Daniela Rus
(2015/12/2 18:21)
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In this project we are developing self-driving cars for customized mobility on demand as part of the SMART program.
The objective is to develop data-driven customized transportation. We are developing a fleet of self-driving cars consisting of golf carts and electric cars. Mobility on demand aims to transform transportation into a utility, to be available to anybody, anytime. If you want to go somewhere, you book a ride, the robot car comes to where you are and drives you where you want to go. After dropping you off, the robot car coordinates with the other robots in the system to determine where its next pickup location is and drives itself there. An optimization engine ensures that people?s waiting times, car trajectories, and vehicles in the system are optimized.
In October 2014 we conducted a public trial at the Chinese Gardens in Singapore. We invited the public to test our mobility on demand system. During the week long trial over 500 people booked and took rides. The robot ...
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