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GE Researchers Demonstrate Grain-size Gas Sensor with Bloodhound-like Sensing Capabilities Ideal for Wearable or Drone-based Formats in Industrial Safety

May 22, 2020
  •  Findings featured in the cover story of the May issue of Nature Electronics 
  • New dielectric excitation strategy applied to conventional gas-sensing materials reveals extraordinary new performance capabilities
  • Demonstrated achievements include ultra-broad range of detected gas concentrations, high response linearity, boosted sensor stability, and eliminated effects of ambient temperature
  • Contemporary low-power integrated circuit electronic compone

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Move It! How GE Gets Tech From Point A to Point B

John Paul Mangalindan
September 11, 2019
What do human organs and critical wind farm parts have in common? Neither is of much use if they can’t get to where they’re needed.
Moving a human kidney, a wind turbine blade or a 400-pound nacelle requires a deep understanding of your precious cargo and some creativity when it comes to employing planes, trains and automobiles (or in this case drones, trucks and boats). Here’s a look at how GE got three important parcels from point A to point B:

 
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Unmanned Traffic Management Pilot Program: FAA Drone Flight Testing Lands First Milestone

Brendan Coffey
September 04, 2019
One drone can perform any number of important jobs. It can deliver a human organ to a hospital, for example, or fly along stretches of isolated pipeline in Texas to perform needed inspections. But add another drone or a manned aircraft to its airspace — or both — and suddenly drone operation gets a lot more complicated.
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Taking Off: Nevada Drone Testing Brings Commercial UAVs Closer To Reality

Brendan Coffey
April 29, 2019

More than 1 million drones already fill the skies in the U.S. But the vast majority, almost 90%, are high-priced toys sold at retail stores. If drones can get the OK for use in commercial situations — such as infrastructure inspection, agricultural operations, even package delivery — analysts see the potential for an industry worth tens of billions of dollars in the next few years.

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Special Delivery: For The First Time, Drone Flies Kidney To Patient For Successful Transplant

Brendan Coffey
April 26, 2019

A medical and aviation breakthrough took place in the Baltimore skies last week when the world’s first human organ for transplant was delivered by drone. The University of Maryland, with assistance from AiRXOS, a unit of GE Aviation, successfully delivered a human kidney from Baltimore’s St. Agnes Hospital to the university’s medical center 2.7 miles away. The 10-minute flight took place at about 12:30 a.m. on April 19, and resulted in 44-year-old Trina Glispy receiving the kidney around 5 a.m. She had spent eight years on dialysis before undergoing the procedure.

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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
March 02, 2019
Atmospheric carbon gets turned back into coal, tobacco plants are repurposed as “green bioreactors,” and an artificial intelligence text generator becomes worrisomely good at its job. There’s all sorts of unexpected transformation — and more — in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries.
 

Could Coal Get The Benjamin Button Treatment?

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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
February 17, 2019

Whispered messages can be transmitted across a room directly into the ear they’re intended for, a shirt can change its properties whether it’s hot or cold out, and a new military grenade comes loaded with a net for capturing drones. All that and more in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries.

 

Laser-Sharp Hearing

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Identified Flying Objects: GE, Partners Test Drone Collision Avoidance Systems In The Real World

Brendan Coffey
January 02, 2019

The endeavor to get unmanned aircraft to coexist safely in the sky with planes and other “manned” flying vehicles took a significant first step recently as a group of researchers, engineers and pilots gathered in upstate New York. For the first time they successfully tested drone flights integrating next-generation airborne collision avoidance system (ACAS X), which is being developed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

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A Longer Leash For Drones: Federal Regulators Allow Avitas Systems To Work Beyond The Line Of Sight

Fred Guterl
November 11, 2018
If you live in oil country, you know what a nodding donkey is. The name derives from the continual up-and-down motion of the arm of a pump pulling crude from an oil well, which suggests a donkey lazily eating grass.
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
July 07, 2018
"This week we learned about a cloaking device that helps medicine sneak up on cancer cells, a tiny brain for a tiny drone, and “smart outlets” that can learn the difference between harmless power surges and dangerous ones. What a trip!
 

A Trojan Horse Approach To Cancer
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