Sentences with phrase «testing as a prototype»

A synthetic tree, currently being tested as a prototype, ensnares carbon about 1,000 times faster than a real tree.

Not exact matches

«Be really clear about the assumptions you're making about the business you're going into, and check those assumptions as quickly as you can — whether it's building a prototype and testing it with people, or just talking to other people in the industry.

This sensor is still in its early days, as the scientists have tested a prototype on only eight people so far.

As part of the development process, Sonnekalb's team visited Johnson Space Center to talk shop with the NASA simulator team and get a test drive on the Mars Rover prototype alongside an astronaut.

As Sonic expands to areas more accustomed to chilly winters, franchisees are testing revised drive - in prototypes.

The prototype for a digital ledger - based clearing system is in the process of being built, and testing could begin as early as the second quarter, said John Lee, TMX's managing director of enterprise innovation product development.

With 3D printing the time and cost of prototyping, testing, and market adoption drops dramatically, as does the cost of the final product.

Companies such as Uber were supposedly invited to try out their prototypes with minimal regulations and even went as far as allowing tests without a safety operator onboard the vehicle.

They all participated in the 3 month testing of our prototype platform (as well as 40 invited hackers who tried in vain to blow our platform up).

It uses its Whole Foods stores as delivery hubs, has partnered with Kohl's on taking returns, and the online giant has bookstores, a prototype grocery store, and more physical ideas being tested.

But, in recent weeks, Kubica has been back behind the wheel of single - seaters, testing GP3 and Formula E cars, as well as an LMP2 prototype.

The Albany NanoTech Complex is a fully - integrated research, development, prototyping, and educational facility that provides strategic support through outreach, technology acceleration, business incubation, prototyping, and test - based integration support for onsite corporate partners including IBM,, GlobalFoundries, SUNY Poly SEMATECH, Samsung, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, and Lam Research, as well as other «next generation» nanotechnology research activities.

The eight - ton experimental prototype is designed as a test bed for the technologies China will need for its future space station program

Even though the craft is newly retired, the facility continues to serve as a test site for every NASA prototype that might take flight.

But as doctoral student Joey Wilson and Patwari will report in an upcoming issue of Transactions on Mobile Computing, they were eventually able to create a prototype wireless network of pole - mounted, cell phone — sized transceivers that they tested outdoors and indoors.

Toyota, currently the world's largest producer of hybrid vehicles by far thanks to the success of its Prius, announced that it expects to have a commercially viable plug - in hybrid available to consumers as early as 2010 and is now testing prototype versions of plug - in hybrids at two California universities.

Rather, the 8 - ton experimental prototype is designed as a test bed for the technologies China will need for its future space station program, including docking technology.

The students» prototype, developed during a yearlong biomedical engineering master's degree program, has not yet been tested on humans, but it is viewed as a promising first step toward helping Parkinson's patients safely relieve their own symptoms at home or elsewhere without going to a hospital or doctor's office.

The team originally tested their analysis on a handheld prototype, made from a range of off the shelf materials, but Dr Iris Choi, Technology Associate at Oxford University and the paper's co-author, is confident that the system could be miniaturised, and turned into a practical component for a mobile phone, such as Nokia, who were a partner in the research.

Still, Harland, 34, was part of a team at the sports technology department at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom that worked with a prototype of the Adidas Jabulani, developing and testing different designs for the ball and studying how surface features, such as seams and grooves, affect the ball's aerodynamics.

As described in a new paper, NIST's prototype breast phantom was tested on MRI systems from two manufacturers in three configurations and produced accurate, quantitative images that could be used to evaluate common imaging procedures.

«Given our unique facilities at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility, we have the capability of developing prototype hardware and testing the concepts we've simulated, which include innovations such as air recirculation and particle recirculation.

Our detectors worked well and we included them as a part of our prototype device that was sent in the fall to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for their Defense Threat Reduction Agency - funded test campaign.»

As for having a prototype ready by 2018, Crusan explained that the agency is on track to accomplish that, but it will be a ground demonstrator designed for «form, fit and function» tests, not a space module.

Just as prototypes for NASA's Mars rovers made their trial runs on Earth's deserts, researchers are testing both hypotheses and technology on our oceans and extreme environments.

We followed a «design thinking» process, first empathizing as best we could with students and instructors to help us understand their daily challenges, then prototyping and testing our ideas.

While empathy is the first step in the design thinking process, keep your students focused on this necessary element as they move through definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing.

What we found in our initial prototypes — launching an innovation lab space, creating a design thinking professional development experience, and running student - facing design challenges for middle - and high - school classes — was that the design thinking process functioned as a kind of oasis for educators, reconnecting them to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers, not just as test takers.

If or when the bridge collapsed, the teacher and engineers used the failure as an opportunity to talk to students about the need to constantly «prototype» or test their work and improve upon it.

«Design thinking» involves «creating many ideas in brainstorming sessions, and adopting a hands - on approach in prototyping and testing», as well as «ongoing experimentation: sketching, prototyping, testing, and trying out concepts and ideas».

As a computer teacher at an LD magnet school who tested the prototype said, «These LD teachers have figured out the best way to teach everyone.

As the trial progressed, teams from different schools shared their solution «prototypes» with each other at learning days — discussing and testing out their ideas and using feedback to move forward.

Through the Turtlegate narrative, students were able to explore the problem in a number of engaging ways, including a scientific investigation into the water quality of the dam, face - to - face interviews with a range of experts, including parties who were involved in the incident, as well as developing, testing and analysing prototypes for either catching or finding the turtle (if he were located in the school's dam).

These implementation suggestions are the result of our curriculum implementation findings during prototype and pilot testing of the Web GIS investigations as part of a design partnership with lead science teachers in the school district.

As part of the Carnegie Alpha Lab Research Network, this program of research involves rapid prototyping and testing of innovations to examine how changing students» motivation beliefs towards their classes (e.g., perceptions of confidence and value) can improve academic outcomes.

Our test car occasionally brushed against the engine's rev limiter as a further reminder that we were in a prototype vehicle with a new transmission whose programming wasn't yet perfect.

Consistent with previously spied testing prototypes, the F - Pace bears familiar brand design cues that have trickled down from the halo F - Type, such as the extended wrap - around taillights and fender badges aft of the front wheels.

A Polestar 1 prototype survived a two - week winter test drive north of the Arctic Circle by test drivers and engineers in temperatures as low as -18 degrees Fahrenheit we are told.

After the show, test driver Bob Wallace began work on refining the Miura's handling, a job that included driving the prototype to Monte Carlo for the 1966 Grand Prix weekend, where it acted as the course car and where Ferruccio drew crowds to Casino Square simply by sitting in the driver's seat and revving the engine.

As senior editor Nelson Ireson learned while testing a prototype in Japan last month, Honda will be also touting a new optional engine and transmission for the 2018 Accord.

We spied a prototype of this SLS replacement testing at the Nürburgring earlier this year, and it appears to maintain the same long - hood, short rear deck proportions as the SLS but on a smaller scale.

The upcoming i3 city car is already well into development, as we've seen prototypes testing in what looks like near - production bodywork.

The next - generation BMW M5 sedan will adopt all - wheel drive, as seen on a current - gen M5 prototype caught testing in the snow earlier this year.

But we can show it to you anyway as our spies were lucky shooting a prototype almost without camouflage while undergoing road tests close to the firm's headquarters in Cologne.

We must be getting very close, as spy shooters just caught a prototype for a Regal wagon testing in Michigan — yes, GM is finally giving us a D - pillared variant of the Regal.

It certainly showed what the platform was capable of, but the team decided it was also too extreme to present to management as a potential production model, so when the prototype was eventually demonstrated to VW's top brass at the company's Ehra - Lessien test facility it was in a far more civilised state of tune.

(LOS ANGELES)-- December 5, 2017 — One year after its first showing at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the Jaguar I - PACE Concept returned to the city as a production prototype for its final range and durability tests ahead of its global reveal and start of sale in 2018.

Several prototypes were tested that year, but the launch of the Nissan Primera in 1990 prompted Ford to made a number of major alterations to the final product, as it saw the new competitor from Nissan to be the benchmark car in this sector, having previously identified the Honda Accord as the class leader.

The photos and video underline the 2019 X5's off - road capabilities, as they show prototypes being tested in various conditions, from extreme cold to scorching heat.

As that chronology suggests, there's a fourth generation Focus arriving next year — indeed it's no secret, as Ford has been testing prototypes in public with the hashtag #TimeToFocuAs that chronology suggests, there's a fourth generation Focus arriving next year — indeed it's no secret, as Ford has been testing prototypes in public with the hashtag #TimeToFocuas Ford has been testing prototypes in public with the hashtag #TimeToFocus.