This story will bring new hope for cerebral palsy and stroke patients. "Before, people suffering from cerebral palsy lose hope in life, seeing themselves as invalid and cannot lead a normal life. Now, MIT engineers successfully made and tested robotic devices to help patients...
Scratch another one off the list of "things only humans can do". This is not even a full artificial "intelligence"; it just learns how to compute data and algorithyms to fly a remote control helicopter, beaming instructions by radio signal 20 times a second. However, that...
This is an interesting story and not what you'd expect."NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it's not Guantanamo Bay...
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This is a new research that reveals about the way humans perceive fast moving, incoming objects-such as tennis or cricket balls."The new research studies why the human brain has difficulty perceiving fast moving objects coming from straight ahead; something that should be a...
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"(CNN) -- The Phoenix lander got its robotic arm onto a sample of water ice from Mars' surface and popped the ice into tiny, onboard "ovens" that will help determine if the water could support life, NASA researchers said Thursday. ...
"Robotic radiosurgery system offers non-invasive treatment alternative for tumors anywhere in the body Sunnyvale, Calif. (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that Japan's...
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"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia will take part in international robotic contest ABU Robocon 2008 scheduled to be held in Pune, India, on August 31.As many as 20 teams from a number of countries will participate in the contest, an senior education official said."The sixth...
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Soil...it's the building blocks of life. It's also a guide to history, both through archeology and in learning how the earth was formed, as well as what happened to it over time. And for the first time ever,...
Paving the way for an Ice-Pirates-esque future:"Nasa's new robotic craft on Mars may be resting on a large patch of ice.The latest images sent to Earth reveal tantalising glimpses of what looks like frozen...
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"NASA reported that the Phoenix Mars lander suffered a one day delay caused by a communications glitch that was repaired late Tuesday night. With communications restored, commands to deploy the Phoenix's robotic...
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"NASA’S ambitious mission to discover if Mars was ever habitable has encountered its first hitch - the protective sheath covering the robotic digging arm of its Phoenix lander has failed to fully unfurl.The malfunction means the elbow joint of the 7.7 ft long arm, which...
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"On May 3, 2008 Vancouver Mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson will be at eatART to meet with the arts community and to discuss how he plans to make Vancouver a centre for creative capital.As MLA for...
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"Why not?
Why not automate the pitstops of major autoracing series such as the IRL, ChampCar, F1, A1 GP, NASCAR, or American Le Mans?
The Tankpitstop as it appears at a Shell station fueling island. Image...
Robotic insects? How could I resist?"No agency admits to having deployed insect-size spy drones. But a number of U.S. government and private entities acknowledge they are trying. Some federally funded teams are...
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"China's first lunar mission would be followed by robotic missions in subsequent years that would be broadened to landing on the lunar surface and returning to Earth, then a brief human visit, Ji was quoted by AFP...
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