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Defence Lab Reveals ltimate CCTV
The United Kingdom's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is developing high-resolution imaging technology for a surveillance systems that can recognize and...
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Team Produces Procedure-Based Training Software For Robot-Assisted Surgery
Two scientists have paired up to develop procedure-based, hands-on surgical training software, which has the potential to revolutionize surgical training worldwide...
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Willow Garage Gets Robots Into Researchers' Hands
Willow Garage has given 11 teams from around the world the right to use its PR2 open source robots and operating system to develop new uses for the technology and...
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Advances Made in Walking, Running Robots
Oregon State University researchers say they have made a fundamental advance in robotics that could lead to robots that use little energy to walk and run effectively...
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Japan Plans a Moon Base By 2020, Built By Robots For Robots
An ambitious $2.2 billion project in the works at JAXA, the Japanese space agency, plans to put humanoid robots on the moon by 2015, and the Japanese could have...
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Beyond the Smart Grid
The electrical grid isn't the only utility acquiring intelligence, as water and gas meters throughout the U...
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Robots Are the Key to Stopping the Oil Spill
At its greatest depths, the sea floor is a dark, tranquil, and foreboding place, beyond the reach of both sunlight and human divers. Yet the area around the Deepwater...
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DARPA
Software systems could one day analyze everything from blurry war-zone footage to the subtle sarcasm in a written paragraph, thanks to two unassuming scientists...
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Engineer Says Robotics Can Use a Woman's Touch
Texas A&M at College Station computer science professor Robin Murphy creates rescue robots designed to slither through collapsed buildings, fly over wildfires,...
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Teaching Robots Some Manners
People are more likely to adapt to and use robots if they behave more like humans, even if that means they operate less efficiently.
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Virtual Reality sed to Transfer Men's Minds Into a Woman's Body
Barcelona University scientists recently conducted an experiment in which they used virtual reality to transfer men's minds into a woman's body.
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Software that Learns By Watching
Overworked and much in demand, IT support staff can't be in two places at once. But software designed to watch and learn as they carry out common tasks could soon...
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Fantastic Journey to Next-Generation Virtual Reality Cave
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a grant to develop the "next-generation" CAVE virtual environment, a 3-D research tool for use...
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Lsu Scientists Develop New Efficiency Software
Louisiana State University professors Supratik Mukhopadhyay and S.S. Iyengar have developed software that can monitor systems and use the data it collects to make...
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Junior, the Robotic Car, Learns to Slide Park
The autonomous car that the Stanford Racing Team developed for the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007 is now capable of parking itself from an accelerated, reverse position...
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The Rover's All Right
Oregon State University students are building the Oregon State Wireless Active Learning Device, a remote-controlled Mars rover that features an extendable arm...
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Multimedia Content
The media produce a glut of material daily. Refining that ore into the gold of useful information requires new approaches. European researchers have now made automated...
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Japanese Couple First in the World to Be Wed By a Robot
A Japanese professor of robotics and his bride were the first couple in the world officially wed by a robot.
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Nasa Looking to Six-Legged Robot to Build Human Outpost on Mars
NASA is developing a six-legged robot called Athlete that can walk or roll on wheels, and ultimately aims to have it help set up a habitat on Mars for future astronauts...
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