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Five ideas for smart cities emerge in tech contest

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Sponsored by Honeywell‘s corporate citizenship initiative Honeywell Hometown Solutions, the TeChallenge Competition in Bucharest challenged students to combine innovative thinking with automated solutions to protect environment, save energy and improve living standards.

The event encourages students from Politehnica University and local high schools in Romania to develop their technical knowledge and creativity in areas such as energy efficiency, new energy sources, renewable technologies, intelligent technologies, smart cities, mobility and natural gas in the 21st century.

Here are some of the most interesting ideas they came up with.

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Festo unveils human-like hand for robotics applications

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Whether its grabbing, holding or turning, touching, typing or pressing – in everyday life, we use our hands as a matter of course for the most diverse tasks.

The human hand, with its unique combination of power, dexterity and fine motor skills, is a true miracle tool of nature.

What could be more natural than equipping robots in collaborative workspaces with a gripper that is modelled after this model of nature, that solves various tasks by learning through artificial intelligence?

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NXP launches chipset solution for connected vehicle data

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NXP Semiconductors N.V., supplier of automotive semiconductors, has announced a vehicle network processing chipset solution for high-performance service-oriented gateways, which it claims enables automakers to unlock the value of connected vehicle data and offer new services.

The MPC-LS chipset solution combines the NXP automotive MPC5748G microcontroller and enterprise networking LS1043A communications processor to offer the high levels of performance and networking required for service-oriented gateways.

For development, evaluation and demonstrations, the chipset solution is supported by an evaluation board, enablement software and a growing ecosystem.

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