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  Creating Your Own Animated 3-D Characters and Scenes for the Web

  February 28, 2013 — To show spatial animations on websites, developers so far have had only two options: to use special software or to implement it from scratch. Computer scientists have developed a declarative markup ... > full story
• Biology
  Biochemistry Research
  Mice
  Behavioral Science
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  Eyes Work Without Connection to Brain: Ectopic Eyes Function Without Natural Connection to Brain

  February 27, 2013 — For the first time, scientists have shown that transplanted eyes located far outside the head in a vertebrate animal model can confer vision without a direct neural connection to the brain. ... > full story
• Optics
  Stem Cells
  Eye Care
  Immune System
  Brain Tumor
  Nervous System
   
  

  Researchers Test Holographic Technique for Restoring Vision

  February 26, 2013 — Researchers are testing the power of holography to artificially stimulate cells in the eye, with hopes of developing a new strategy for bionic vision restoration. Computer-generated holography, they ... > full story
• Developmental Biology
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  Nature
   
  

  Lessons from Cockroaches Could Inform Robotics

  February 22, 2013 — Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found. These new insights on how ... > full story
• Robotics
  Artificial Intelligence
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  Computer Science
   
  

  With Robots, Humans Face 'New Society'

  February 22, 2013 — Humanity came one step closer in January to being able to replicate itself, thanks to the EU's approval of funding for the Human Brain Project. Danica Kragic, a robotics researcher and computer ... > full story
• Disability
  Today's Healthcare
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  World Premiere of Muscle and Nerve Controlled Arm Prosthesis

  February 22, 2013 — Electrodes have been permanently implanted in nerves and muscles of an amputee to directly control an arm prosthesis, for the first time. The result allows natural control of an advanced robotic ... > full story
• Technology
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  Solar Energy
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  Writing Without Keyboard: Handwriting Recognition on the Wrist

  February 21, 2013 — Typing text messages on the mobile phone via the tiny soft keyboard is very cumbersome. How about simply writing it into the air! This idea drove the development of  “airwriting” by ... > full story
• Artificial Intelligence
  Detectors
  Computer Programming
  Robotics Research
  Robotics
  Computer Science
   
  

  Insects Inspiring New Technology: Autonomous Navigation of Mobile Robots Based on Locust Vision

  February 21, 2013 — The way in which the locust's distinctive visual system could be transferred into technology for state of the art vehicle collision sensors, surveillance technology and video games has been detailed ... > full story
• Intelligence
  Brain Injury
  Language Acquisition
  Artificial Intelligence
  Neuroscience
  Robotics
   
  

  'Simplified' Brain Lets the iCub Robot Learn Language

  February 19, 2013 — The iCub humanoid robot will now be able to understand what is being said to it and even anticipate the end of a ... > full story
• Biology
  Molecular Biology
  Cell Biology
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  Nanotechnology
  Nature of Water
   
  

  'Bionic Proteins': Nano-Machines Recreate Protein Activities

  February 17, 2013 — Physicists have developed nano-machines which recreate principal activities of proteins. They present the first versatile and modular example of a fully artificial protein-mimetic model system. These ... > full story

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