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- Robot
- A stand-alone hybrid computer system that performs physical and computational activities. Capable of performing many different tasks, it is a multiple-motion device with one or more arms and joints....
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- Photos: Robot rescuer for wounded soldiers
- The Bear, from Vecna Technologies, would put itself in the line of fire instead of human stretcher-bearers.
- Image galleries 2006-09-21
- BomBots will save many lives
- The first 200 BomBots will be shipped next week to Iraq before being joined by 2,300 other ones over the next 10 months. According to the Charleston Gazette, their mission will be to save lives of soldiers by destroying improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, which already can be blamed for...
- Blog posts 2006-04-21
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- A robot to destroy breast cancer cells
- Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, the robot will perform a biopsy of the breast while the patient is inside the scanner. 'If the biopsy displays...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- A Consumer Electronics Carol
- A Consumer Electronics CarolUnderstand what you are talking aboutbefore you analyze it.Osborne went under because they pre-announced a product before it was ready, and sales dried up of the current model AT ANY PRICE. The company did not have enough liquidity to keep them afloat while waiting for the new...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?This is not new ....... I worked on the project that was supposed to repair the Hubble, which was adapted from another "robotic satellite repair" project.In the end of the day, the cost of development and execution turned out to be more than double...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- Photos: Killer robots at Ceatec
- Meet Murata Girl, Genibo the dog, a robot receptist, and other electronic helpers featured at this year's Japanese electronics show. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-10-01
- Pterodactyl-inspired flying robots
- According to Sankar Chatterjee, a professor of paleontology at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock TTU, a 225-million-year-old pterodactyl might soon be reborn as a flying robot. The Tapejara wellnhoferi, which lived in Brazil, was a big flying lizard with an unusual 'accessory,' an 8-inch-high fleshy crest stuck straight up...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- News to know: Tech sales and the art of spin; Firefox; Apple; HD streaming
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Brian Sommer: Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy Ryan Naraine: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug Matthew Miller: Microsoft deep sixes...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Underwater robot moves like an helicopter
- MIT researchers have started to test a new underwater robot that can hover in place like a helicopter. The two-meter-long Odyssey IV will be able to move autonomously up to depths of 6,000 meters at a speed of 2.5 meters per second. But unlike other underwater robots, it will be...
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- Microsoft Tinker - Best Ultimate Extra so far (although the bar is set pretty low)
- Microsoft has released three new Ultimate Extras exclusively for Windows Ultimate users. One of the extras, Microsoft Tinker a game in which you control a little robot around an obstacle course, is surprisingly a lot of fun. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Venak and AVenak Detection Malware Scanner (zip)
- An anti malware technology MPS Main Protection System. This is a new way to finding unknown malware for going to next computer security. What is the MPS? MPS is a new method to find threats on computer systems, this method uses by a security model to analyze software resources on...
- Software downloads 2008-09-24
- Robot gas stations in the sky
- Robot gas stations in the skyInappropriate language‘taking a running fuck at a rolling doughnut.’, may not be appropriate for posting on ZDNET.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-21
- Robot gas stations in the sky
- According to Aviation Week, U.S. engineers will soon demonstrate the first in-flight docking of two unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs while continuing the development of an autonomous aerial refueling system. Two specially designed UAVs, a tanker and a receiver, will perform their first test flights next month. 'One of the six-foot...
- Blog posts 2008-09-20
- News to know: IE vs Chrome; Microsoft's TV pack; Oracle; Pandora CEO
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Should Microsoft do an IE 8 'Lite'? Larry Dignan: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linux Ed Bott: TV...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Cleaning ship hulls with a robot
- This is the goal of a EU-funded project called HISMAR Hull Identification System for Marine Autonomous Robotics. European researchers and engineers are working on an automated robotic cleaning system that removes marine growth from the hull of a ship. By cleaning a ship's hull, this robot will allow ships to...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'
- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'Dang. He and Al Gore must have the same speech writer...:D :D :D :D :DI don't think so....RIM is a Canadian company, and all Canadians know that it was, in fact, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who coincidently was also Conservative who helped invent the...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Microsoft ads are still shoulder-tapping. OK. OK. I'm listening already.
- Microsoft ads are still shoulder-tapping. OK. OK. I'm listening already.I wonder how many of the authorshere have an advertising degree?They should be focusing less on these commercials and more on their own writing skills as I have noticed that many do not get the same amount of talkbacks as others.I...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Gates and Seinfeld - Part Deux
- Gates and Seinfeld - Part DeuxMy wifeSaid that the ad seemed demeaning - some rich guys deigning to live with the riff-raff.You just don't get it...These ads are absolutely hysterical! I was literally ROTFLMAO from these ads. My rep sent me the talking points before the ad was aired, pointing...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Gates
- Gates4:30?Gawd. Does anyone watch a TV show uninterrupted for 4 minutes and 30 seconds? Is this really a 4:30 commercial? And if this is the pace at which we get to find out what's so new and great about Vista, let's all re-emerge from our caves in 2011. Nice take,...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Gates & Seinfeld's next commercial: Better. With funny parts.
- updated: The commercial is on YouTube now. It's embedded below. The second Microsoft commercial featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld is out being broadcast tonight during Big Brother on CBS and at least this time, there were some funny scenes. And there was clearly a message this...
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
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