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Robotic or manned submersibles, regardless of their sizes, could use anchors that are able to embed themselves into the loose soil at the bottom of the oceans. This type of anchors could easily keep the water craft in their desired position, but the effort has always been to find the most advanced and efficient desig... |
23 November 2009
02:46 GMT |
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Scientists at the La Jolla, California-based Scripps Institution of Oceanography have recently been awarded nearly $1 million in funds for the development of swarms of oceanic observations robots. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Science, the main funder of the research, plans to have at its di... |
11 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Scientists have developed a new method that allows robots to remember relevant pieces of information from the sea of data they collect from the environment, by emulating the way human memory works. Each individual is able to recall the most important things about a certain period or event, but all the useless details... |
7 November 2009
07:06 GMT |
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The idea of a space elevator started being popularized in the 1970s, although, at the time, it was looked at as being something next to impossible. Since then, advancements in modern technologies have brought this goal within reach. Of the hypothetical elements that would go into such a device, only the actual cable ... |
6 November 2009
04:00 GMT |
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Nature is the most potent source of inspiration for just about every aspect of human activity, from painting and music to nanotechnology and, apparently, underwater biomimetic probes. Two experts at the Michigan State University (MSU) have recently taken it upon themselves to create robotic fish, made out of advanced... |
2 November 2009
06:01 GMT |
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New York City is highly renowned for its brick buildings, which have a characteristic reddish hue, and give certain streets a unique look. Over a period of three weeks, architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, both of whom are professors and researchers at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, will guide their amazing ro... |
27 October 2009
10:10 GMT |
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Robots that can see are nothing new, as they've been around for quite some time now. And we're not talking about machines such as the rover Spirit, which uses its cameras to inform its human operators about what it's doing, but about robots that are able to identify and move around an obstacle all on t... |
27 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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The 2009 Space Elevator Power-Beaming Challenge Games have recently been rescheduled for November 4, a few months after the initial term, on July 14, the Spaceward Foundation has announced. The competition will therefore take place in about three weeks, at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), within the con... |
16 October 2009
05:59 GMT |
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The number of cars circulating on public roads around the world is constantly increasing, international statistics show, but the infrastructure they travel is unable to expand fast enough to accommodate the traffic. When this is coupled with some drivers' inability to watch the changing lights, or switch lanes o... |
5 October 2009
06:39 GMT |
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Robots are ubiquitous today, and some of the most famous ones are already shaped like humans. Of the latter type, a small fraction has human-like hands and “fingers,” which the machines can use to grab a hold of objects, or hull themselves up when they fall to the floor. However, there is currently no des... |
28 September 2009
04:52 GMT |
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This May, at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair's Public Day, children of all ages gathered around what looked like an average LEGO-based robot, devised by University of California in San Diego (UCSD) student Anna Kornfeld Simpson. However, the machine was anything but ordinary, as evidenced by... |
26 September 2009
03:53 GMT |
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It stands to reason that, until robots get human-like appearances, they will never be fully accepted socially. Experts are therefore currently working on ways of making this a reality, but defining what a human trait is proves to be extremely difficult. The best example for this is replicating the human skin. Advance... |
23 September 2009
16:11 GMT |
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While an octopus is not generally regarded as being the most clever animal on the planet, its brain is looked at with respect by scientists. One simple reason for this is the fact that it can control eight limbs flawlessly, in very much the same way we control four. This trait that octopuses have is of great aid to r... |
18 September 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Although it may sound unbelievable, many scientific achievements take place behind closed doors and beyond the knowledge of the public. Such is the case with the work of University of Reading experts Kevin Warwick and Ben Whalley, from the UK, who are currently conducting experiments on controlling robots with cluste... |
10 September 2009
09:42 GMT |
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The amazing ability that fish have of essentially touching objects around them without actually coming in physical contact with them comes from their unique sensory system, called the lateral-line. This allows them to sense obstacles in their paths, and to steer clear of predators. Robotics engineers are currentl... |
29 August 2009
06:55 GMT |
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Scientists have hypothesized for a long time that biological robots will soon become real, but now experts at the University of the West of England have completed the necessary preparations for the first-of-its-kind prototype to be built. It will mostly be made out of a microorganism called plasmodium, which has reve... |
28 August 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Collecting live information from inside fish colonies and marine ecosystems was never an easy task for naturalists and documentary reporters. The human factor is always tainting the results of studies, and it therefore needs to be eliminated. This is precisely what a new type of robotic fish will do, in addition to p... |
27 August 2009
08:53 GMT |
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Many people believe that things such as teleportation, invisibility cloaks and time travel pertain only to science-fiction movies and books, but renowned theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku believes that they may be a lot closer than we think. The expert, who collaborated in creating the string theory, reveals that... |
26 August 2009
07:02 GMT |
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The goal of offering robots a sense of morality was recently brought one step closer by researchers in Portugal and Indonesia, when they introduced a new approach on decision-making, based on computational logic. Their efforts are described in the latest issue of the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intellige... |
25 August 2009
18:31 GMT |
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As the United States try to reduce their dependency on foreign oil, the Navy is one of the leading actors in this effort. Its ships consume vast amounts of oil each year, and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is looking at reducing these amounts by as much as possible. Recently, they've created a new, underwate... |
25 August 2009
08:38 GMT |
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A newly-proposed idea in the United Kingdom holds that seniors in the country could, within three years, start enjoying the company of robotic kittens in their households. According to leading psychiatrists, always having some company around could benefit the elderly, and could make them become more involved in daily... |
22 August 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Science-fiction novels and movies have pictured the future of humankind in a robotized world for a long time, where mechanical entities are self-aware, and perfectly able to fend for themselves, and make decisions. In such a scenario, the Three Laws of Robotics, proposed by SF writer Isaac Asimov in his books, do app... |
19 August 2009
14:31 GMT |
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According to a new set of experiments, it would appear that robots have the ability to deceive other robots, especially after they are specifically bred to do so. In the studies, small machines with artificial, animal-derived computer brains, quickly learned to deceive each other, if the reward was well worth. The fi... |
19 August 2009
01:35 GMT |
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Over recent years, considerable advancements in the field of robotics have brought forth a new wave of development in what some experts call “Humans 2.0.” Paraphrasing the type of Web content that is now a part of mainstream culture, they believe that, in a few years to a couple of decades, we could have ... |
3 August 2009
01:56 GMT |
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While there is no question that fixed winged aircrafts and helicopters will remain the standard for large-scale flying, it may be that creating small flying robots by the “blueprints” of the common flies may be the best way to go in robotics, scientists from the Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, ... |
1 August 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Using artificial learning parameters, a robot devised by experts at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) can decide for itself if it's time to laugh, or time to frown. The machine's head looks just like an excited version of Albert Einstein's face, and the team believes that letting the rob... |
9 July 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Experts conducting experiments on the limits of the human hand's neuromuscular dexterity were puzzled to determine in their studies that even seemingly simple operations conducted with a single finger appeared to push the muscles to extremes. The find could have serious implications for the field of disability r... |
8 July 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Emergency response teams and surveillance crews around the world already benefit from the advantages that remote-controlled flying probes have during an emergency situation, in a spot where humans cannot survive. But, while the machines have certainly made it a lot easier for their owners to respond to a situation, a... |
7 July 2009
09:03 GMT |
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The European “ICEA” project is a continental-sized endeavor of creating artificial intelligence-operated systems that could benefit mankind, especially in the field of medicine. As part of this program, British researchers from the University of the West of England, the University of Bristol – who t... |
6 July 2009
17:01 GMT |
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In their quests for the best possible materials to implement in new dentures, teeth experts have recently created Dento-Munch, a creepy-looking robot that does nothing else all day except munching. Despite its large grin, owed mostly to the fact that it has no lips, the machine's purpose is actually very complex... |
30 June 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Over the years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been at the forefront of innovation in all things technical, and its role has been further restated recently, when the university has presented the projects it was working on. Designed to improve the life of future generations, and to answer some of ... |
29 June 2009
08:43 GMT |
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Autonomous robots are no news flash, but one that can travel through flesh all on its own is. Duke University bioengineers created such a device in their laboratories, and the little machine is capable of navigating its own way through skin samples, find pieces of shrapnel, and guide a needle to their location, witho... |
19 June 2009
10:23 GMT |
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When the right time comes, maple seed pods separate from their trees, and, as any other seeds, start their journey to nearby regions, where they take root and give birth to new maples. But, in this case, the apple, indeed, falls far from the tree. In a new series of experiments, researchers have demonstrated that, be... |
12 June 2009
03:31 GMT |
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The Talon is a small bomb-defusing and disposal robot that is operated by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) crews in hostile environments, to identify and attempt to render nonoperational improvised explosives and other dangerous materials. But, whenever confronted with devices that have a very complex struct... |
8 June 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Chile in Santiago (UCS) are currently working on ways of making their robots fall as delicately as possible, if such a term can be placed alongside a mechanical device. Researchers recognize the fact that falling down poses the greatest risk to humanoid robots around the world, and that f... |
20 May 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Despite the fact that the twin robots of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission have advanced our knowledge of Mars so much that we can't really quantify it, engineers at NASA are annoyed by the fact that they can't make the little robots go into steep gullies, or other similar geological formations, for ... |
19 May 2009
02:44 GMT |
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The border between the United States and Mexico is one of the most assaulted in the world, as far as the number of illegal immigrants trying to push through goes. Despite the Secure Border Fence Act of 2006, with which the Congress approved the construction of 700 miles of fence between the two nations, immigrants an... |
16 May 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Team Italia is one one of the 17 crews that have enlisted in the $30-million-worth Google Lunar X Prize, and which have to send a robot or rover to the Moon by 2012. The demands are fairly simple: create a rover or other form of moving robot that can travel more than 1,640 feet (500 meters) on the lunar surface and t... |
14 May 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Massive oil rigs at the middle of the ocean can bravely face its fury for extended periods of time, but the constant clash with the water does leave its rather visible marks on the steel structures. And that's why, especially in parts of the structures that are submerged, robots are of enormous value. They are a... |
6 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Over the next few years, researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at Japan's RIKEN Institute believe that the world could witness the rise of self-cleaning walls, fabrics, counter tops, and maybe even the emergence of small water-walking robots. In nature, the latter phenomenon already exists, in a ... |
5 May 2009
05:42 GMT |
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Hollywood and the gaming industry have developed a very strong relationship, as more and more movies are getting a video game adaptation and vice versa, hoping to generate further profit for the companies involved.Robots is such a property, which has received a video game treatment in order to coincide with the theat... |
29 April 2009
08:05 GMT |
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Hollywood and the gaming industry have developed a very strong relationship, as more and more movies are getting a video game adaptation and vice versa, hoping to generate further profit for the companies involved.Robots is such a property, which has received a video game treatment in order to coincide with the theat... |
28 April 2009
14:02 GMT |
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Hollywood and the gaming industry have developed a very strong relationship, as more and more movies are getting a video game adaptation and vice versa, hoping to generate further profit for the companies involved.Robots is such a property, which has received a video game treatment in order to coincide with the theat... |
27 April 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Some inventors are notoriously focused more on their robots than they are on those around them, including children and family. What it is about the mechanical creatures that has them so fascinated is easily understandable, seeing how the future of mankind is clear – a world filled with robots and cyborgs to do ... |
7 April 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Adam may seem like a dubious choice of name for the world's first robotic scientist, but maybe only because every new item of its class ever created is either called that or Eve, depending on the context. Nonetheless, it's the name that experts at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (... |
3 April 2009
17:01 GMT |
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The goal of establishing a permanent presence on the Moon has been with the world's space agencies ever since before the first manned spaceflight. NASA, ESA, JAXA, RosCosmos, as well as the Indian and Chinese agencies, all have plans of at least getting there. However, while the Americans are working on their ow... |
2 April 2009
03:58 GMT |
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According to the latest researches coming in from NASA, the Phoenix Mars Lander may have descended right in the middle of a terrain that is extremely microbe-friendly. The most recent investigations seem to hint at the fact that the entire region, just below the planet's North Pole, is or was able to sustain lif... |
31 March 2009
03:43 GMT |
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If the Martian rovers could be compared to live scientists, then you could safely say that they are the founding fathers of a new scientific field, and that is robotic planetary exploration. Admittedly, they are not the first machines to have been sent to another planet, and they will most certainly not be the last o... |
31 March 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Novel research fields seek to address the needs of people who are confined to a wheelchair for the remainder of their life, from robotic arms to aid the paraplegic, to robotic feet meant to help individuals who are paralyzed from the waist down finally get back on their feet.A former Army Rangers elite member who los... |
24 March 2009
05:16 GMT |
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At this time, the third spacewalk of the STS-119 shuttle mission to the International Space Station is already underway, as astronauts are attempting to fix a loose pin that has hindered the deployment of the station's cargo holders, located on the exterior walls of the orbital lab. During today's extra-veh... |
23 March 2009
10:08 GMT |
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