Spot the SPOT ….

Wants another pet…? Here is the Spot….

Google-owned technology firm Boston Dynamics unveils Spot, another masterpiece robot. Spot is incredibly impressive and maybe a little bit terrifying. This puppy-like robot is a four-legged robot weighing only 160 pounds that can navigate rough terrain and office cubicles alike, i.e. it is designed to walk on any terrain… And he’s quiet, so you might not see him coming. It is a  miniaturised version of its Big Dog quadrupedal bot. Spot has a sensor-laden head and can be used indoors and out, and could eventually help with search and rescue, mapping, or accessing disaster zones. Spot is electrically powered and moves using a system of hydraulic pumps and valves, according to the company,

More interesting and disturbing part of all is, the android pup, though skids and stumbles, stays upright despite a few hefty kicks to its side, which you can see for yourself from the video... The compact, lighter, self-balancing, quit bot, with its natural and organic movements in the video looks very much like living things and these features make it quite adorable Spot could be used to enter areas too dangerous for humans to occupy, or bring important supplies to destinations too treacherous for regular robots and too wooded for drones. Surely this newly introduced bot reminds us that robots will one day take over our world….

This robots are capable of self-balancing even you kick the Spot, It is too smart because it even can follow you similar to your dog… and also capable of doing any task you assigned.  Of course even if it’s at its early stage of development, we can expect it in our daily life like for emergency rescue, helping defence personals, helping in carrying foods and supply to remote place in case of natural calamity. Even if can use these robot’s for exploring other planets, which is very effective.

                In future definitely we can see these type of robots similar to our structure.  


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Now ELISA Test in Fast Track.

Just 15 minutes for HIV, Syphilis….

We can now turn any smartphone (whether iPhones or Android devices) into an HIV and syphilis tester. Wonder how? Here is the answer… The plastic attachment, about the size of the phone itself, uses disposable cartridges to load blood and the device’s app reads the results, giving a diagnosis in about 15 minutes. The device, called “dongle”, can be attached to any smart phone or tablet through the audio jack. This is the first low-cost dongle that replicates all mechanical, optical, and electronic functions of a laboratory-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) without requiring any stored energy; all necessary power is drawn from a smartphone… This low-weight device is capable of simultaneously detecting HIV antibody, treponemal-specific antibody for syphilis and nontreponemal antibody for active syphilis in a single format....

So these are the steps: - plug the dongle in and take a blood sample with the prick of a finger. Insert the sample into a disposable plastic collector (cartridges) and connect the collector to a microfluidic chip which analyses the sample. Next, insert the chip with the blood sample into the dongle, open the app, wait about 15 minutes and you have your results.

Let’s see what’s happening… The blood sample mixes with chemicals called reagents in micro scale channels within the cartridge. Gold nanoparticles bind to antibodies, and silver nanoparticles form a film around the gold particles. This silver film blocks light shined through the finished sample, indicating the test result within 15 minutes. The result is automatically loaded into the phone’s storage.

         As I have already said, it is cheap among typical diagnostic methods; $34 for each dongle and $2 for each cartridge. It is a “mobile application” i.e. health care workers can go door to door to provide tests, instead of requiring people to come to clinics. It helps in reducing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases from mothers to children.The facilities are outstanding, process is durable, requires little user training, and needs no maintenance or additional manufacturing.Researchers is also studying about other possibilities of device to test other diseases…The technology is so rapidly growing that we can use it to transform our world into better, healthier place just by one finger prick……

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