Brain-like chip outstrips normal computers
COMPUTER chips that mimic the human brain are outstripping conventional chips in crucial ways. They could also revolutionise our understanding of how the brain functions. Attempts to simulate the brain...
View ArticleYour 3D Mini-Me — Up to 8 Inches Tall — Awaits
Just in time for the annual holiday family portrait, designers in Japan have come up with a unique alternative to standard prints: miniature action figures of the family. Gone are the days of photo...
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Robots are learning to walk and run at Delft University
Leo and Phides – two planar biped robots built at the Delft University of Technology – are walking and running, respectively. Leo improved its walking gait through reinforcement learning, which shapes...
View ArticleLearning to Accept, and Master, a $110,000 Mechanical Arm
A Future Reset: After losing his arm in an I.E.D. explosion in Afghanistan, Cpl. Sebastian Gallegos has adjusted to his prosthetic limb. SAN ANTONIO — After the explosion, Cpl. Sebastian Gallegos...
View ArticleJellyfish Inspires Cancer Detector
Jellyfish tentacles have inspired a way to detect cancer, microbes and viruses, researchers say. Devices resulting from this research could help quickly and sensitively detect life-threatening diseases...
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Prototype robots autonomously strip paint from aircraft using lasers
If you think stripping paint off an end table can be a messy, time consuming job, imagine removing paint and other coatings from an aircraft like the C-130 transport plane. Tasked with developing a...
View ArticlePenn Researchers Make Flexible, Low-voltage Circuits Using Nanocrystals
PHILADELPHIA — Electronic circuits are typically integrated in rigid silicon wafers, but flexibility opens up a wide range of applications. In a world where electronics are becoming more pervasive,...
View ArticleUse of Stem Cells in Personalized Medicine
Johns Hopkins researchers report concrete steps in the use of human stem cells to test how diseased cells respond to drugs. Their success highlights a pathway toward faster, cheaper drug development...
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Brain-controlled helicopter takes mental concentration to new heights
(CNN) -- A toy helicopter controlled by nothing but brainwaves could be available to the public just in time to hover under this year's Christmas tree. Currently touted on crowd-funding website...
View ArticleDNA imaged with electron microscope for the first time
It's the most famous corkscrew in history. Now an electron microscope has captured the famous Watson-Crick double helix in all its glory, by imaging threads of DNA resting on a silicon bed of nails....
View ArticleMind-Controlled Artificial Limbs Fusing Man and Machine Coming Next Year
A postdoctoral student has developed a technique for implanting thought-controlled robotic arms and their electrodes directly to the bones and nerves of amputees, a move which he is calling “the future...
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Rolling HyTAQ robot avoids obstacles by taking to the air
A team at the Robotics Lab at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) has come up with another take on the caged flying robots like the spherical air vehicle developed by Japan’s Ministry of Defense...
View ArticleMeet Spaun, The Most Complex Simulated Brain Ever
The computer program recognizes items, learns and remembers--and even passes some basic components of an IQ test. Spaun Learns And Remembers A screen capture from a simulation movie of Spaun in action...
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MIT spin-off Robot Rebuilt working on sensitive robotic hands
Robot manipulators – or hands, as we like to call them – come in all shapes and sizes. Some, like those developed for Willow Garage's PR2, have just two fingers. Others have three, four, or five...
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Japan to send mini robot to the ISS by mid 2013
Originally announced in early 2011, a small humanoid robot will be sent to communicate with astronauts living in the International Space Station's Japanese Experiment Module "Kibo" in the (Northern...
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MIT developing a robotic "Swiss Army knife" that changes shape to suit the job
An MIT team is developing a robot that has the potential to become possibly the most versatile machine ever. Referred to by the team as the "robotic equivalent of a Swiss Army knife,” the milli-motein...
View ArticleGeorgia Tech Robots Learn Deceptive Behaviors from Squirrels
We know, we know, robots being deceptive sounds like a bad thing. Potentially avery bad thing. But the fact is, deception is everywhere, and for good reason: being deceptive is often the most efficient...
View ArticleChinese astronauts may grow veg on Moon
Chinese astronauts may get fresh vegetables and oxygen supplies by gardening in extraterrestrial bases in the future, an official said after a just-concluded lab experiment in Beijing. Deng Yibing,...
View ArticleiRobot Founder Now Building Tiny Hovering Drone Spies
Four years ago, iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner stepped down from the company she helped turn into an all-important supplier of the military’s growing arsenal of ground robots. Now today, she’s...
View ArticleTelepresence Robots Invade Hospitals
A disembodied human face hangs atop a robot chassis next to a Redmond, Oregon hospital bed (not pictured). The doctor on the screen is 20 miles distant, in Bend. But from there he is able to assess the...
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