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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...
- Tags: Breast Cancer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Rod, Cell, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- 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...
- Tags: Robots, Network technology, satellite, robot
- 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
- Tags: Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, 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...
- Tags: Professor, Texas Tech University, Aircraft, Tapejara, Pterosaur, Aerospace & Defense, Robots, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- 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...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Steve Ballmer, Radio, Apple Inc., Sales, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- 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
- Tags: Extra, Microsoft Corp., Games, 64-Bit, Robots, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Emerging Technologies, Networking, 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...
- Tags: Window, Malware, U0vd Security, MPS, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms
- 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.
- Tags: Robots, robot
- 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...
- Tags: Basket, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Robots, GPS, Aerospace & Defense, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Manufacturing, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- 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...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft TV, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., TV, E-mail, Open Source, Tv & Home Theater, Online Communications, Personal Technology
- 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...
- Tags: Vessel, Ship, HISMAR, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- 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...
- Tags: advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft AD
- 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...
- Tags: Jerry Seinfeld, advertisement, Part Deux, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp.
- 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,...
- Tags: Ad campaign, Corporate America, advertisement
- 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...
- Tags: Commercial, Bill Gates, Microsoft Windows, Robots, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data sets
- The world won't end when the Large Hadron Collider makes its anticipated first collision of high-energy particles later this month, but it will produce an explosion of data. The LHC will produce as much data in a single day of experimentation as many scientists dealt with in a lifetime only...
- Tags: Data, Data Set, Policies And Procedures, Benefits, Robots, Wiki, Strategy, Human Resources, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Can robots become our 'phriends'?
- A friendly collaboration between humans and robots is not always easy. Either robots work efficiently and far from humans in controlled environments, or they're equipped with lots of sensors to work along humans and not harm them. Now, a EU-funded project, Phriends -- short for 'Physical Human-Robot Interaction: DepENDability and...
- Tags: Robotics, Phriends, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- (Photos: Future Combat Systems, here and now)
- (Photos: Future Combat Systems, here and now)Where is the new rifle?Since the Vietnam era, soldiers have been armed with a jam prone individual weapon. A better weapon made by H&K is available, but a new rifle does not have the "sex appeal" of these toys. If the Army's officer corps...
- Tags: rifle, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
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