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Gaming Technology for Calculating Floods

Norwegian researchers have borrowed a page from game developers to devise simulation technology that can save lives in many parts of the world by helping to reduce the damage from ...  > full story

Kilobots Are Leaving the Nest: Swarm of Tiny, Collaborative Robots Will Be Made Available to Researchers, Educators, and Enthusiasts

The Kilobots are coming. Computer scientists and engineers have developed and licensed technology that will make it easy to test ...  > full story

Smart Swarms of Bacteria Inspire Robotics: Adaptable Decision-Making Found in Bacteria Communities

Scientists have now discovered how bacteria collectively gather information to learn about their environment and find ...  > full story

Mask-Bot: A Robot With a Human Face

Robotics researchers have developed an ingenious technical solution that gives robots a human face. By using a projector to beam the 3D image of a face onto the back of a plastic mask, ...  > full story

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  To Make a Social Robot, Key Is Satisfying the Human Mind

  February 3, 2012 — Understanding the human mind is the key to social robotics, and researchers describe what we can expect from this field in the ... > full story
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  Artificial Intelligence: Getting Better at the Age Guessing Game

  February 1, 2012 — The active learning algorithm is faster and more accurate in guessing the age of an individual than conventional ... > full story
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  Computer Vision Research: Do You See What I See?

  December 21, 2011 — A question confronting neuroscientists and computer vision researchers alike is how objects can be identified by simply "looking" at an image. But teaching a computer to "know" what it's looking at ... > full story
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  Japan's 'K Computer' Ranks No. 1 in Four Benchmarks at HPC Challenge Awards

  November 16, 2011 — RIKEN, the University of Tsukuba, and Fujitsu Limited have announced that they received top-ranking in all four benchmarks for the performance results of the "K computer" at the 2011 HPC Challenge ... > full story
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  Clear Vision Despite a Heavy Head: Model Explains the Choice of Simple Movements

  November 9, 2011 — The brain likes stereotypes -- at least for movements. Simple actions are most often performed in the same manner. A mathematical model explains why this is the case and could be used to generate ... > full story
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  Video Game Playing Tied to Creativity, Research Shows

  November 2, 2011 — Both boys and girls who play video games tend to be more creative, regardless of whether the games are violent or nonviolent, according to new ... > full story
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  Is That a Robot in Your Suitcase?

  November 2, 2011 — A flying robot as small as a dinner plate that can zoom to hard-to-reach places and a fleet of eco-friendly robotic farm-hands are just two of the exciting projects a robotics team in Australia is ... > full story
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  Software to Prevent Abuse at the Click of a Mouse

  November 2, 2011 — Teaming up with investigators from the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Berlin, Fraunhofer researchers have come up with an automated assistance system for image and video evaluation that ... > full story
• Quantum Computers
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  New Hybrid Technology Could Bring 'Quantum Information Systems'

  October 28, 2011 — The merging of two technologies under development -- plasmonics and nanophotonics -- is promising the emergence of new "quantum information systems" far more powerful than today's ... > full story
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  Fast High Precision Eye-Surgery Robot Developed

  October 27, 2011 — A researcher in The Netherlands has developed a smart eye-surgery robot that allows eye surgeons to operate with increased ease and greater precision on the retina and the vitreous humor of the eye. ... > full story

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