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Robotics

Groundbreaking Research: GE’s Wriggling Worm Robot Takes On A New Challenge

Amanda Schupak
May 23, 2022
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Some of us might feel like we spent the past two years living under a rock. GE researcher Deepak Trivedi has been working there.

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GE Researchers Working to Speed Up Certification of Software for Critical Military and Industrial Systems

March 21, 2022
  • Leading a $10.5 million project through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Automated Rapid Certification of Software (ARCOS) program focused on rapid certification of software 
  • Today it can take one year and cost $5 million to re-certify modest code changes
  • GE Research is partnering with GE Aviation Systems, Galois, and Guardtime Federal to enable assurance models that dramatically reduce the certification timeline and costs while improving data integrity and security

NISKAYUNA, NY – Mar

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GE’s Bio-Inspired Robotic Worm Sees Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Daniel Kruger
Larry Reibstein
July 16, 2021
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With the suppleness of a gymnast and the strength of a football player, a robot in the shape of a giant earthworm recently slithered through and around dirt, small rocks and tree roots. The tunnel it dug was comparable to the typical trenchless methods used today, but the journey marked a significant milestone for the prototype: It demonstrated the feasibility of using a so-called soft robot to burrow autonomously through tough terrain quickly and without breakdowns.

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Innovation

Catalyze This: GE Teams Up With DARPA To Build Mobile System For Making DNA And RNA-Based Vaccines

Alyssa Newcomb
May 19, 2021

Standing in a lab on the GE Research campus in Niskayuna, New York, John Nelson holds up a sample of synthetic DNA inside a vial that is small enough to fit comfortably between his thumb and forefinger. Nelson, who has worked as a senior principal scientist at GE Research for the last 24 years, says there’s enough synthetic DNA inside that half-gram vile to produce an estimated 5,000 vaccines. “It took us under a day to produce this,” he says.

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GE Research

Portable Oasis: GE And Its Partners Plan To Build A Box To Produce Water From Air

March 22, 2021

Keeping enemies on the run is all part of the job for soldiers in the U.S. Army, yet troops stationed in the world’s hot spots frequently face another relentless foe: thirst. But scientists at GE Research and their partners at U.S. universities have mobilized to help. They are building a refrigerator-size device that they believe ultimately will be able to produce hundreds of liters of drinking water per day from air.

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GE Research and Collaborators Awarded DARPA Project to Improve Speed of Nucleic Acid-based Vaccine Manufacture and Distribution

March 02, 2021
  • Mobile platform intended to produce >1,000s of ready-to-use doses at the site of need in under 3 days
  • Project leverages GE’s expertise regarding synthetic method for producing industrial amounts of DNA
  • GE’s DNA-based approach could be compatible with new, recently approved RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines

NISKAYUNA, NY – March 2, 2021 – Aiming to enable vaccine production on-demand, anywhere in the world in just days, GE Research and a multi-disciplinary t

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GE Research

Dig This: GE Engineers Learned from Worms How to Build Underminer, A Tunneling Robot Funded by DARPA

Daniel Kruger
May 29, 2020

Looking like a giant earthworm and moving at a fast clip, a 6-foot-long, 2-inch wide robot recently burrowed through the ground at GE Research’s testing site in Niskayuna, New York. Once it is fully operational, the robot’s engineers expect it will be able to dig a tunnel longer than five football fields in just 90 minutes.

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ai

You Can Teach A Computer New Tricks: How Boyhood Pets Paved This Scientist’s Approach To AI

Scott Woolley
February 25, 2020
For a man who would grow up to become a leading expert on teaching computers to think, Peter Tu spent his childhood on some unlikely hobbies. Rather than holing up in his bedroom to code, the young Tu would often run around his Toronto neighborhood with his dog or oversee the reptile pit he built in his backyard. Of particular interest to the future computer scientist were the ways his menagerie of animals learned new tricks and skills.
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data security

MIND The Gap: DARPA Funds New Research To Make Information More Secure

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 26, 2019
Imagine a doctor in a hospital who is about to operate on a patient with a brain aneurism. Before surgery, the doctor needs to gather lots of pieces of information: A scan of the patient’s brain, information about what kind of medications the patient uses, and if they smoke or use drugs, as well as family history. The doctor may also want to have specific people working in the operating room to help save the patient’s life.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Elizabeth Hamilton
Tomas Kellner
June 29, 2018
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Scientists in Japan developed a flying DRAGON robot, their peers in California built artificial human immune cells that could one day fight cancers, and a team at NASA found a way to make jets quieter. Science is powering ahead. You’ve heard it here loud and clear.

 

Flying Dragon Robot

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