Quantum chip breakthrough to unleash ‘ultra-fast’ computing
Scientists have built a new quantum chip that will enable the creation of completely secure mobile phones and ultra-fast computers with capabilities far beyond today’s devices. The international...
View ArticleUK paraplegic woman first to take robotic suit home
Although bionic exoskeletons have been used in hospitals and rehabilitation centers, Claire Lomas is the first to take the ReWalk suit home for everyday use. Lomas earlier this year used the suit to...
View ArticleTeam reports brain-controlled ambulation in robotic leg test
An Do, MD, at the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center in California and colleagues at the University of California Irvine, have succeeded in connecting a mind-computer interface to a robotic...
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Study: Intelligent Cars Could Boost Highway Capacity by 273%
You're a terrible driver. Yes, you. Terrible. At least, you're terrible compared to a robot, which is smarter, faster, and more experienced. In fact, if we all just give up driving on highways and let...
View ArticleAtomic Clusters of gold nanoparticles could lead to 3D real time telepresence
Central Florida Professor Jayan Thomas is working with gold nanoparticles and studying their propertieswhen they are shrunk into a small size regime called nanoclusters. Nanoclusters are on the small...
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Boston Dynamics' Cheetah Robot Now Faster than Fastest Human
Boston Dynamics' Cheetah robot has just set a new record for legged robots by sprinting at 28.3 mph. This, incidentally, is also faster than Olympic (human) champion Usain Bolt, who set the world...
View ArticleSPI 2012: QBotix Tracking System with mobile robots
QBotix today announced the QBotix Tracking System (QTS), a dual-axis tracking system that employs rugged, intelligent and mobile robots to dynamically operate solar power plants and maximize energy...
View ArticleNew elastic hydrogel can replace damaged cartilage in joints
Scientists have developed an extremely stretchy, tough water-based gel that may replace damaged cartilage in human joints. Researchers from Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)...
View ArticleInitiation of Arm-Work Phase by NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity
The robotic arm of Curiosity was extended on Wednesday during the first 6-10 successive days of planned activities for testing the 7-foot arm and the tools developed. The Curiosity rover spanned up to...
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Nanodiamonds make magnetic field sensors
A new electron spin resonance technique involving nanodiamonds and lasers can measure local magnetic fields in liquid environments, according to new experiments by researchers at the University of...
View ArticleScientists Set New 'Quantum Teleportation' Record
An international team of physicists has broken the distance record for "quantum teleportation" with the instantaneous transmission of quantum states encoded in photons over the 143 kilometers (89...
View ArticleStrategy developed to improve delivery of medicines to the brain
New research offers a possible strategy for treating central nervous system diseases, such as brain and spinal cord injury, brain cancer, epilepsy, and neurological complications of HIV. The...
View ArticleAalto scientists make a splash with water-based computer
Scientists at Aalto University, Finland, have made an eyebrow-raising computing breakthrough, creating digital bits from droplets of water. According to researchers at Aalto University in Finland,...
View ArticleCould Cyborg Cockroaches Save Your Life?
The sight of a cockroach scuttling across the floor makes most of us shudder, but in a disaster, roaches might prove to be our new best friends. Cockroaches that are surgically transformed into...
View ArticleResearchers: 'Junk' DNA plays major role in disease
International research teams have junked the notion of "junk" DNA, reporting that at least 80% of the human genetic blueprint contains gene switches, once thought useless, that control the genes that...
View ArticleThin flexible electronics can be built using UV light
Current semiconductor technology is based on silicon, gallium arsenide (GaAs), and other opaque materials. But a promising alternative, metal oxide semiconductors (consisting of molecules with both...
View ArticleRun! DARPA's LS3 robot mule follows you around
Let the human-hunting games begin. Boston Dynamics has a new video of its oversized beast pursuing defenseless human meatsacks through a forest. The Legged Squad Support System (LS3), aka AlphaDog, is...
View ArticleHarvard researchers develop new kind of soft robotic gripper
Because traditional robot hands or grippers were first created to assist in production type enterprises, e.g. to help build cars, etc., they have not been very good at working with soft materials. For...
View ArticleMicrosoft Patents 'Holodeck' Style Game Projector (PICTURES)
Microsoft has filed a patent for a future-generation gaming system which could theoretically bring the HoloDeck from Star Trek to life. Drawings from the patent show a game being projected on the walls...
View ArticleMicromotors with built in compasses
A collaboration between scientists in Germany and Singapore has produced a micromotor that can be controlled by a magnetic field. The motors are microtubes that contain a platinum catalyst and iron....
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