Dr. Metin Sirri is Docent on the Pittsburgh Carnege Mellon University and Director of the Nanorobotics Doivision.

He is currently working on a project which has the aim to transform the wonders of the nature into practice.
His work is especially on the Jesus-Insects who have the ability to walk on water.

Here a video so you understand what i mean. Have problems with English to describe it exactly:
http://www.me.cmu.edu/faculty1/sitti/nano/..._bright_CMU.avi

With chemical sensors on the robot the robot can detect toxines in the water.
Equipped with tentacles the robot can collect waste swimming on the water.
The robot has no akku or battery, the robot is powered by Piezo-electricity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectric

Here a picture:
http://www.me.cmu.edu/faculty1/sitti/nano/...strider_big.jpg

TÜBITAK (Turkish Research Council) has developed an face recognition system called GAYE.
The system can safe faces of humans or you can upload faces of criminals into the database.



The recognition algorithm was tested and functions 100%.
The system is installed for testing phase on "19 Mayis Stadium" in Ankara.
So when a hooligan for example nears the stadium the cameras check the face with the database and give alarm to security forces so they can act.

Further application areas are for example mass-events like concerts or also Politicalk summits.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004SPIE.5298...99K


GAYE a face recognition System
http://spiedl.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPD...ips&prog=normal



More i will write later.

Turkish Microchip

here a photo where turkish scientists have branded an Atatürk head on a microchip in the size of 100*100 microns.
Near the head you can see the transistors:



Tübitak (Turkish Research Council) and UEAKE (Turkish national Cryptology Institute) have developed a method where Turkey can produce its own microchip for different operations and hardwares.
The thickness of the transistors are 0,7 microns.
The scientist have phased neared them to 0,7 microns after they achieved 3 microns thickness before.

Currently there are 15 states in the world who can produce microchips with a thickness of transistors of 0,7 microns.

Gürsel and Hayal Sönmez from the Sabanci University developed an memory device which consists of electrochromic polymers.
The data is stored using different colours of the polymers.



http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech/Vol...ata_storage.asp

An satellite which is to 80% produced in Turkey.
The project is from TÜBITAK (Turkish research Council).
Director of the project is Prof. Dr. Beycan İbrahimoğlu, an Azeri Turk who worked for Russian space agency in Soviet times.

What is the special feature of RASAT?

It will be the first satellite which is fuelled by Borhydrid. That means, that in the fuel cell through the catalysator Borhydrid will give hydrogen free, which will energy the Satellite.

The satellite will be shot to universum in 2007 from Kazakhian Baikonur:
http://www.bilten.metu.edu.tr/Web_2002_v1/...%209%20Ekim.jpg
http://www.bilten.metu.edu.tr/Web_2002_v1/..._31.10.2005.jpg
http://www.bilten.metu.edu.tr/Web_2002_v1/..._31.10.2005.jpg
http://www.bilten.metu.edu.tr/Web_2002_v1/...1026Radikal.jpg

RASAT is the successor of BILSAT whose Homepage you can access here:
http://www.bilten.metu.edu.tr/bilsat/tr/root/

Pictures from BILSAT (antecessor):
Dubai:
http://www.bilten.metu.edu.tr/bilsat/tr/ga...bruary_2005.htm

Madrid:
http://www.bilten.metu.edu.tr/bilsat/tr/ga...y/july_2005.htm

BILSAT had a bad solution between 12 and 26 meters.

RASAT will have a solution between 5 and 8 Meters:
http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/259075.asp?0m=T1CY

Turkish Hi-Tech in Space.

Turkish Student's Discovery in Cell Corrects Scientific Error
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20050601&hn=20219

Turkish Scientist's Discovery Of How Proteins Work
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=37553

Ahmet Yildiz is 25 years old and has won the "Young scientist award 2005" held by GE and the sciencemag
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full...ourcetype=HWCIT
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/311/5762/792

http://www.planedoctor.com/article-print-328.html



This is the new Boeing Dreamliner:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:R54e.jpg
The new system which was developed by a Turkish engineer will recognize damages on take-off and landing within 5 MInutes.
Without this system it needed 72 Hours to recognize such damages.

Turkish Hybrid Motor:

Ford, which in Turkey signs with the firm name Ford-Otosan developed a hybrid motor.
Ford in Turkey belongs to 41% each to KOC and Ford.
18% of the shares are in free float.

After years of licence production turkish automotive sector achieved a big step forward in developing own technologies.
Engineers and Scientists from
- Ford-Otosan
- Tübitak (Turkish Resarech Council)
- Arcelik (KOC-Group)
- ITÜ (Istanbul Technic University)

have made the Ford Transit Hydrid-motor capable.
It is a Diesel engine which is additionally powered by an electrical battery.
The battery comes from Arcelik which also belongs to KOC, TÜBITAK and ITÜ have worked on the algoithm between diesel engine and battery.





Here press statement:
http://www.ford.com.tr//UIContent.aspx?Pid...AID=37&Nid=1926


And here pictures of the car:
http://www.ford.com.tr/images/galeri/haber...d_arac_06_1.jpg
http://www.ford.com.tr/images/galeri/haber...d_arac_06_2.jpg

Omnitek Launches the World’s First Gigabit Wireless Backbone in Istanbul
http://www.bbwexchange.com/publications/ne...546-1147902.asp

The Turkish firm Omnitek has started the first Internet via Laser-Technology in Istanbul which has a speed of 1,25 GB/s.

It is the FSO (Free Space Optics) Technology.





In phase 1 of the project 12 KM of Istanbul was linked together (Business district)

http://www.omnitek.com.tr/company_ing.htm


Ankara and Izmir will meet this technology, too:

http://www.bbwexchange.com/publications/ne...546-1147902.asp

The Robocup 2005 was held in Osaka, Japan.

The Bogazici University went to the competition with its robot named "Cerberus".
In the category "technical challenge" Cerberus won the first place.

Here a description what this "technical challenge" is all about:
http://www.tzi.de/4legged/pub/Website/Down...22%2Brobocup%22

And here the placeing:
http://www.robocup2005.org/news/results.aspx

You must scroll down where it says: "4-legged lague"+"Technical challenge"

Turkey so far imported its bomb-defusing robots for about 80.000 Euros from abroad.

2 Students of Konya have now developed an Turkish made robot which will cost about 2.000 YTL.


The chassis, the tentacles and the camera are controllable via radio communication or INTERNET.
So the Robot can even be controlled from another state allthough the robot operates in Turkey.
The robot has an IP-address.
When you type that IP-address into an webbrowser and type the masterpassword in, the controll center of the robot opens in the webbrowser where you can see the live-camera and can operate control elements.

The robot was shown on the "Konmak 2006" fair.
It is a track vehicle.

http://teknoloji.milliyet.com.tr/detay.asp?id=1558

Ok, the following is no innovation but anyhow interesting.

NAVTURK was established in 2004. It is a company with 100% turkish financing. It supplies GPS Software.
NAVTURK has within 2 years mapped 81 Provinces and 900 counties.

NAVTURK on its homepage claims, that within the last 2 years where they showed their product on foreign fairs, some boardering states have contacted them to mapp their territoy, too.

NAVTURK says on its Homepage, that it is currently in negotiation with these states:
http://www.navturk.com/f0204.asp

http://www.futurematch.cebit.de/_2005/pde_...?page=1&exh=853