A Millimeter-Scale Electric Generator

Human as an Electric Generator

“The idea is to generate electric energy from the mechanical movements of living beings”. When living beings make mechanical movements, they spend their energy some of which is converted to work. The wasted energy can be converted to electrical energy with the help of nano-generators. The nano generators have a piezo electric crystal (say ZnO) which is made up of nanoparticles. These piezo elec...

Design for a Millimeter-Scale Walking Robot

A Data Generator for Cloud-Scale Benchmarking

In many fields of research and business data sizes are breaking the petabyte barrier. This imposes new problems and research possibilities for the database community. Usually, data of this size is stored in large clusters or clouds. Although clouds have become very popular in recent years, there is only little work on benchmarking cloud applications. In this paper we present a data generator fo...

How to safely use a portable electric generator

If your facility does not have a permanent standby generator to use for temporary power outages, or if you are conducting mobile clinic activities in areas without electrical power, you may need a portable generator to power your electrical devices. A generator that isn’t powerful enough may overheat and catch fire; it can also damage equipment. To calculate the generator capacity you need, add...

Millimeter Scale Microrobots for the Nanoassembly Applications

Current top down manipulation systems used in micro and nanomanufacturing are many orders of magnitude larger than the parts being handled, leading to difficult tradeoffs between their precision, throughput and cost. This paper presents recent research progress in the manufacturing of millimeter sized robotic positioning technology that allows combining high precision with high throughput along...