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Ripple Effect: Water Snails Offer New Propulsion Possibilities
A UC San Diego engineer has
revealed a new mode of
propulsion based on how
water snails create ripples
of slime to crawl upside
... > full story
Robots: The Bizarre And The Beautiful
The future is a foreign
country, and nowhere is it
more foreign that the
designs thrown up by a surge
in robotics research. The
feverish imagination and
creativity of European robot
... > full story
Portable Industrial Robot Designed For Aircraft Assembly
New lightweight and portable
robot is designed to
perforate holes in
large-scale aeronautic
components, such as aircraft
wing spars, during their
... > full story
Pterodactyl-inspired Robot To Master Air, Ground And Sea
Scientists have reached back
in time 115 million years to
one of the most successful
flying creatures in Earth's
history -- the pterodactyl
-- to conjure a robotic spy ... > full story
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Reality To Go: 3-D Virtual Reality On Mobile Devices
October 11, 2008 — If mere texting, talking, e-mailing and snapping pictures on mobile devices aren't enough to satisfy your data cravings, now there's the prospect of accessing and displaying 3-D virtual reality ... > full story -
Paving The Way Towards Optical Sensing Foils
October 7, 2008 — Scientists have made the first functional optical links embedded in a flexible substrate. The links include optical waveguides, light sources, and detectors. With this technique, it becomes possible ... > full story -
Probing Human Mind And Future Infrastructure Systems
October 3, 2008 — The National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) has announced 12 grants for fiscal year 2008, awarding a total of $23,779,056 over four years to 54 ... > full story -
New Robotic Repair System Will Fix Ailing Satellites
October 2, 2008 — Researchers are developing a new robotic system to service more than 8,000 satellites now orbiting the Earth, beyond the flight range of ground-based repair operations. Currently, when the ... > full story -
Your Robotic Friend, The Humanoid Robot
October 1, 2008 — Robots can take any shape or form and with the explosion in European research and development for every imaginable robot application, there are dozens of completely different designs. Why, then, do ... > full story -
Special Probe Aids In Looking For Water On Mars
September 30, 2008 — A Decagon designed thermal and electrical conductivity probe is mounted on the robotic arm of NASA's Phoenix Scout Lander, helping in the search for water on ... > full story -
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Robotic Surgery Lowers Risk Of A Rare But Serious Complication Of Gastric Bypass, Study Suggests
September 30, 2008 — The use of a robot to assist with the most commonly performed weight-loss surgery appears to significantly lower a patient's risk of developing a rare but serious complication, according to a study ... > full story -
A Robot In Every Home?
September 30, 2008 — Observers like Bill Gates believe that by 2025 we could have robots in every home. In labs across Europe, researchers are creating designs that could become the robo-butler of the ... > full story -
Voice-Commanded Robot Wheelchair Finds Its Own Way
September 29, 2008 — A new kind of autonomous wheelchair under development can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal ... > full story -
Find The Plug And Save Oil Companies Lots Of Money
September 16, 2008 — A pressure pulse through a pipeline can locate plugs, saving oil companies lots of ... > full story
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