Yao

¹

[you]

noun

Wade-Giles, Pinyin.

1. a legendary emperor of China who, with his successor Shun, was a paragon of good government.

Yao

²

[you]

noun

plural

Yaos ,

plural

Yao .

1. a member of an Indigenous people of Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.

2. the Bantu language spoken by the Yao.

Example Sentences

"Previous versions of artificial neurons used 10 times more voltage -- and 100 times more power -- than the one we have created," says Jun Yao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMass Amherst and the paper's senior author.

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"Ours register only 0.1 volts, which about the same as the neurons in our bodies," says Yao.

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There are a wide range of applications for Fu and Yao's new neuron, from redesigning computers along bio-inspired, and far more efficient principles, to electronic devices that could speak to our bodies directly.

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"We currently have all kinds of wearable electronic sensing systems," says Yao, "but they are comparatively clunky and inefficient. Every time they sense a signal from our body, they have to electrically amplify it so that a computer can analyze it. That intermediate step of amplification increases both power consumption and the circuit's complexity, but sensors built with our low-voltage neurons could do without any amplification at all."

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Yao, along with various colleagues, have used the bacteria's protein nanowires to design a whole host of extraordinary efficient devices: a biofilm, powered by sweat, that can power personal electronics; an "electronic nose" that can sniff out disease; and a device, which can be built of nearly anything, that can harvest electricity from thin air itself.

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