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Robots Big and Small Showcase Their Skills
May 28, 2010 Two robotics events were designed to prove the viability of advanced technologies for robotic automation of manufacturing and ... > full story -
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Robotic-Assisted Vasectomy Reversal Offers Greater Chance of Fatherhood
May 27, 2010 Northwestern Memorial is the first center in the Midwest to perform a pioneering robotic assisted vasectomy reversal. Experts believe this approach gives couples greater success at conceiving ... > full story -
Advances Made in Walking, Running Robots
May 26, 2010 Researchers have made an important fundamental advance in robotics, in work that should lead toward robots that not only can walk and run effectively, but use little energy in the process. By ... > full story -
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Could Humans Be Infected by 'Computer Viruses?'
May 26, 2010 A scientist at the University of Reading has become the first person in the world to be infected by a computer virus. He contaminated a computer chip which had been inserted into his hand as part of ... > full story -
Toward a Useful Quantum Computer: Researchers Design and Test Microfabricated Planar Ion Traps
May 26, 2010 Researchers are designing, fabricating and testing planar ion traps that can be more readily combined into large, interconnected trap arrays. In the future, these arrays may be used to create a ... > full story -
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Gesture-Based Computing on the Cheap: Multicolored Gloves Making Minority Report-Style Interfaces More Accessible
May 21, 2010 Ever since Steven Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi movie Minority Report, in which a black-clad Tom Cruise stands in front of a transparent screen manipulating a host of video images simply by waving his ... > full story -
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Software Tool Helps Tap Into the Power of Graphics Processing
May 17, 2010 Today's computers rely on powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) to create the spectacular graphics in video games. In fact, these GPUs are now more powerful than the traditional central ... > full story -
3D Skin Cancer Diagnosis
May 14, 2010 Scientists have developed a 3D test for malignant melanoma that can identify problems not easily spotted in a standard two-dimensional view of the pattern on the ... > full story -
Game Theoretic Machine Learning Methods Can Help Explain Long Periods of Conflict
May 13, 2010 Researchers have developed new machine learning methods to study conflict. The new method, which they call Inductive Game Theory, has been applied to a time series of fights gathered from detailed ... > full story -
Spiders at the Nanoscale: Molecules That Behave Like Robots
May 12, 2010 A team of scientists has programmed an autonomous molecular "robot" made out of DNA to start, move, turn, and stop while following a DNA track. The development could ultimately lead to molecular ... > full story
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