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- PicsGet (exe)
- There are millions of free pictures on the Internet, when we found a site that contain thousand of free pictures that we interest in and we want to save them to hard disk, we must click through hundred of pages click each picture to save it, it will spend many...
- Tags: Picture, Wsgsoft, PicsGet, Internet, Robots, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-17
- End of the hero-doctor era
- Thanks in part to DeBakey's headline-raising prowess critical care medicine is now a big-money industry, driven far more by institutions and teams rather than individuals. There can be no one like him again. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Era, Surgery, Robots, Team Management, Workforce Management, Healthcare, Emerging Technologies, Management, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-12
- Care-O-Bot, your future robotic butler
- German researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute have introduced their third generation of household robots, the Care-O-Bot 3. The previous generations of this mobile robot assistant were designed to assist elderly or handicapped people in daily life activities. But now, this new 1.45 meter-high robot is intended to be an artificial...
- Tags: Tray, Household Article, System Resource, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- An history of bilateral teleoperation
- In case you're not familiar with the concept of bilateral teleoperation, this is just a way to remotely control robots. Two researchers have written a technical paper which covers more than 50 years of history of bilateral teleoperation. This paper has just received the 'Automatica Best Paper' in the survey/tutorial...
- Tags: Moon, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Pssst! ... wanna save up to 40 percent on a robotic massage chair?
- Okay, I know I'm going to get flamed for furthering ethnic stereotypes, but I have to admit, us Jews love a good bargain. So I'm going to risk getting my butt chewed because I feel compelled to play yiddische consumer advocate. As some of you may know,...
- Tags: Chair, Sharper Image Corp., Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...
- Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al Gore
- Since it's summertime, this column will have the occasional off-topic diversion. Today, I have to take a few minutes to talk about the new Disney-Pixar film, WALL-E. Don't worry, no spoilers here, but I will try and tie in education. I took my kids and a good...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Earth, Disney Corp., Movie, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Al Gore, WALL-E, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- We heart robots
- "Robots: Evolution of a cultural icon" is the name of a new exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi pays a visit to learn how and why artists have used robots to mirror society and why they're beloved the world over.
- Tags: Emerging Technologies, News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, robots, art, san jose museum or art
- Videos 2008-06-20
- Robots working 6,000 meters below sea level
- MercoPress, a news agency based in Uruguay, reports that German engineers are using an aquatic robot able to work 6,000 meters below sea level. This remotely operated vehicle ROV, dubbed Kiel-6000, is operated by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences from the University of Kiel. The robot weighs 3.5 tons...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Remotely Operated Vehicle, Kiel-6000, Colin Devey, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- RoboGames: a fight 'til the death
- It's the Robot Fighting League's largest contest and CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi has a look at the action. Teams from Australia, Brazil, and elsewhere around the world battle for robot glory.
- Tags: Emerging Technologies, News, kara tsuboi, robogames, fort mason, robots, death match, robotics
- Videos 2008-06-16
- Photos: Heavy metal at RoboGames
- Thousands of robots from dozens of countries fight their way through competitions at the International RoboGames in San Francisco. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Metal, Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-06-13
- Photos: Intel's future tech for robots, health care, PCs
- Company researchers showcase intelligent robotic hands, sensors for senior care, and next-gen PC tech this week during Research@Intel Day. by CNET News.com
- Tags: PC, Tech, Health Care, Photograph, Intel Corp., Robots, Desktops, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-06-13
- SimCity Societies demo (exe)
- Featuring an all-new feature set, SimCity Societies allows you to create your own kinds of cities and shape their cultures and environments. Make your cities green or polluted, contemporary or futuristic, rural or urban. Create an artistic society or a police state, an industrial city or a spiritual community or...
- Tags: City, Games, Robots, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2008-06-13
- NASA robots on Moses Lake dunes
- According to the Tri-City Herald, WA, NASA engineers in space suits have tested new robotic vehicles for two weeks on the dunes of Moses Lake, WA. These robots could be used on future NASA missions on the Moon and on Mars. According to the newspaper, five robotic vehicles were tested:...
- Tags: NASA, WA, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Robofish teams of underwater robots
- Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...
- Tags: Team, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-07
- A UMan robotic arm
- Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a mobile robotic arm which can manipulate objects by 'seeing' its environment through a digital camera. This robotic arm, dubbed UMan, or UMass Mobile Manipulator, can 'approach unfamiliar objects, such as scissors, garden shears and jointed wooden toys -- and learn...
- Tags: Environment, UMan, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Artists view our relationship to tech
- On a recent trip to Pittsburgh, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visited the Wood Street Galleries for an exhibit exploring how artists visualize our future relationship to consumer electronics. From hybridized robotic dogs to a piece called "Cellphone Disco," each work is meant to question viewers' level of intimacy with...
- Tags: Artist, Consumer Electronics, Cellular Phones, Personal Technology, News, kara tsuboi, robots, pittsburgh, wood street gallery, art, dogs, birds, co2, carnegie mellon, france cadet
- Videos 2008-06-04
- Polar robots to explore the Arctic
- It's now almost certain that the world's ice shelves are melting. And while satellites provide lots of data about their evolution, ground-based weather stations could be even more useful. But if scientists can no longer stay on fragile and volatile ice sheets, what can they do? They can use specially...
- Tags: Professor, Georgia Tech, SnoMotes, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Roving robots explore moon, desert
- Whether it's exploring the moon's craters or the inhospitable Chilean desert, robots are aiding in the research work that humans wouldn't ordinarily be able to do. At a recent visit to Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi gets up close and personal with the...
- Tags: Emerging Technologies, News, kara tsuboi, carnegie mellon university, lunar x prize, robots, jared kohler, moon, mars, solar, space
- Videos 2008-05-28
- Tuber Hits Back (zip)
- Solanars robots turned Green World into a lifeless solar battery. This planet became their military base. Tuber is on his way in his specially equipped space jet to bring this world back to life. Version 1b includes unspecified updates.
- Tags: TG Team, Tuber, Robots, Engineering, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2008-05-20
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