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- Harry Fuller: Confronting Congressional hypocrisy The U.S. is losing it Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Newser Versus The New York Times, Revisited: Who's Copying Whom? Andrew Nusca: Apple director: 'no change' in Jobs' plans Sam Diaz: No Twitter blasts...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- A robotic brain-computer interface
- California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer
- The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Laser scanning robot 3D-R1 used to map mines
- A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote survey vehicle RSV 3D-R1 weighs about 135 kilograms and is 0.6 meter high. It...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- The world's biggest subsea robot
- According to a newspaper of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, companies installing subsea cables for telecommunications companies and pipelines for the oil industry have now a new tool, the UT-1 Ultra Trencher which is the world's biggest subsea robot. This beauty weighs 60 tons in the air and has a length...
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- (Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day)
- (Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day)from useless to dangerouswe got accustomed with M$ flops or uselless and buggy windoze apps...But relying on M$ to drive yor car is like playing russian rullete with 5 rounds in a 6 shooter.Microsoft Innovation Day?? That's An Oxymoron...Kind of like Army Intelligence.my opinions...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
- STriDER, a three-legged walking robot
- In a short article, New Scientist reports that researchers at Virginia Tech University have developed a tripedal experimental robot. With its three legs, this robot, named STriDER -- short for 'Self-excited Tripedal Dynamic Experimental Robot' -- is actually more stable than 2- or 4-legged robots. As said another researcher, 'It's...
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Artificial brains for robots?
- An international team of European researchers has implanted an artificial cerebellum -- the portion of the brain that controls motor functions -- inside a robotic system. This EU-funded project is dubbed SENSOPAC, an acronym for 'SENSOrimotor structuring of perception and action for emerging cognition.' One of the goals of this...
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- HortiBot, a weed-removing robot
- According to the Ludington Daily News, Michigan, Danish agricultural engineers have built a robot to help farmers with weeds. The Hortibot is about 3-foot-by-3-foot, is self-propelled, and uses global positioning system GPS. It can recognize 25 different kinds of weeds and eliminate them by using its weed-removing attachments. It's also...
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- A robot that travels through the body
- The reference to the 1966 movie "Fantastic Voyage" is maybe too obvious. But Israeli scientists have developed a 1-millimeter-diameter medical robot that will be able to crawl within our veins and arteries. It's too early to know when this medical robot is allowed to explore a real human being. But...
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- A truly globetrotter robot
- A British robotic submarine, Isis, has a very busy schedule these days. Last January, it was taking a 3-week Antarctic dive. In May, it was exploring a giant canyon just off the coast of Portugal. Its next mission will be the exploration of the Whittard Canyon, another deep submarine valley,...
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Review of Data Robotics' Drobo 'storage robot'
- Last week I gave a fairly harsh review of the Drobo "storage robot" product based on some initial investigation I did. I concluded that while it's possible to do some level of hard drive mixing, it really wasn't worth it since you didn't get meaningful capacity out of it. I...
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- A ring of robots to fight fires
- Computer scientists at the Washington University in St. Louis WUSTL have developed a new kind of software to monitor wireless sensor networks. For example, their software agents can help robots to navigate through simulated fires. Their real innovation is that their software agents are able to clone themselves, creating a...
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- FCC lets TiVo users share shows
- FCC lets TiVo users share showsMoney talksThe rest of us walk...Nothing like a "get out of jail free" card for what amounts to closed P2P networks. Wonder if my cable company can do the same thing with DVRs?SO, I can now do what I've done with VCR tapes.So I can...
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