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NASA has adopted Israeli technology for a robot to inspect equipment in deep space. The Visual Inspection Poseable Invertebrate Robot, or VIPIR, is an articulating borescope tool and a tiny camera from Israeli medical device company Medigus to provide a close-up look at space equipment.

Now you have it – one Israeli company is responsible for the production of almost every single electronic device in the world.  Read this statement about Yavne-based Orbotech.

(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Herzliya’s Tiltan Games announced a new versatile educational program for preschool, pre-K and kindergarten kids. It includes over 30 topics and games. Adaptive practice and test modules provide a personalized growth experience.

Students taking the Interactive Objects course run by Israel’s Technion can certainly get totally immersed in some exciting projects. They reflect today's world of design, which must consider the ability to create user interaction or to respond to changes in the environment.

Israel’s Elpam Electronics originally developed the geophone to find people trapped under the debris of collapsed buildings. Now it is updating the device to locate the sound of someone crawling up to 10 meters below the surface of the ground.

The Design Museum in Holon is running a unique international competition - to design and build a prototype of a shaded open space. 17 teams from Israel, USA, UK, six European countries, Chile and Turkey aim to advance the transformation of public spaces in countries with similar climates to Israel.

Da Vinci defined the mechanics that drive earthquakes over 500 years ago, but he wasn’t accurate. New research by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has demonstrated that friction can only occur when the connections between the surfaces are first ruptured in an orderly process.

You would expect that engineers at Israel’s Technion could build quickly, but time-lapse photography reduces the construction time for the new D. Dan and Betty Kahn Mechanical Engineering building down to just sixty seconds!

Israel’s energy cyber security firm Nation-E plans to launch its energy cyber security center in Hadera on September 15. Companies worldwide can evaluate microgrids, smart meters, and all grid-connected devices, and determine how and why attackers are able to infringe their networks.

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yeshiva University of New York will together study colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals - tiny synthetic particles containing metal impurities with intriguing implications for the electronics, solar energy and biological fields.