New Scientist explores the gentler side of our eventual mechanical overlords, as engineers create a sensor-studded skin for a gentle, sensitive robot:
… Read the rest “Synthetic skin for a more sensitive robot.”Most robots are taught to avoid
SONG:“Back to the Printer” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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Inhabitat heralds the end of human dominance on Earth with news of a 3D-printed worm that can build itself out of its own parts:
… Read the rest “Self-assembling robot worms.”Researchers at Harvard and MIT teamed up to produce a 3D-printed
Wired (via CNN) is sizing up the new guy on the mound – a mechanical brain designed to outsmart pitchers:
… Read the rest “Forget chess-playing computers. Here’s a baseball robot.”Researchers at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and the
The robot is in trouble! We’ll have to help the robot breathe!
This educational illustration comes from the National Institutes of Health “History… Read the rest “Science Art: Resuscitation by mouth-to-mouth respiration, WHO/Red Cross photo”
Yep. Scientific American has more on the unmanned aircraft that NASA and the USGS is using to explore the alien landscape of northeastern California:
… Read the rest “Flying robot maps Surprise Valley”Yesterday marked the first day of the
Science Mag produces proof – actual, empirical proof – that nice guys really can finish first and that even killer robots can learn to care for each other:
… Read the rest “Robot buddies.”Laurent Keller of
So New Scientist recommends in a new report on an artificial gut that allows robots to become self-sustaining:
… Read the rest “If you love a sewage-eating robot, set it free.”[F]ood-munching robots have been demonstrated in the past, often generating
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Guests at the Summer Olympics might get an idea of what “technological superiority” means nowadays, according to AP’s report on China’s new security measures… Read the rest “Beijing 2008: Robot drones and Segway police.”
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