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All Things Big and Small: The Brain's Discerning Taste for Size
June 20, 2012 — The brain organizes objects based on their physical size, with a specific region of the brain reserved for recognizing large objects and another reserved for small objects, according to a new ... > full story -
Robots Get a Feel for the World: Touch More Sensitve Than a Human's
June 18, 2012 — What does a robot feel when it touches something? Little or nothing until now. Specially designed robots can now be equipped with a sense of touch even more sensitive than that of ... > full story -
New Discoveries With Language Learning Robots
June 14, 2012 — Robots can develop basic language skills through interaction with a human, according to new ... > full story -
Robotic Assistants May Adapt to Humans in the Factory
June 13, 2012 — In today's manufacturing plants, the division of labor between humans and robots is quite clear, but according experts, the factory floor of the future may host humans and robots working side by ... > full story -
Humanoid Soccer Championship 2012
June 11, 2012 — In a number of recent Hollywood hit films, robots do all kinds of spectacular things, from battling it out in boxing rings to saving the world from alien invaders. Researchers are now helping to ... > full story -
Engineered Robot Interacts With Live Fish
June 8, 2012 — A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered ... > full story -
Stealth Behavior Allows Cockroaches to Seemingly Vanish
June 6, 2012 — Cockroaches, known for their stealth behavior, have a strategy up their sleeve only recently discovered by biologists. They are able to quickly disappear under ledges by flinging themselves off at ... > full story -
New Firefly Technology Lights Up More Precise Kidney Sparing Surgery
June 5, 2012 — During kidney surgery, Firefly fluorescence used with the da Vinci robot lights up in "firefly green" the blood supply to the kidney and helps differentiate cancerous from healthy tissue. More ... > full story -
Tiny Robots for Less Invasive Surgery
May 25, 2012 — Millions of Europeans undergo abdominal surgery each year to treat a range of different disorders, from cancer and heart disease to obesity. Researchers are now developing innovative micro-robotics ... > full story -
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Robots Will Quickly Recognize and Respond to Human Gestures, With New Algorithms
May 24, 2012 — New intelligent algorithms could help robots to quickly recognize and respond to human gestures. Researchers have created a computer program which recognizes human gestures quickly and accurately, ... > full story
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