Human Memory, Computer Memory, and Memento
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View ArticleAcademic Journal Features 'Mind Uploading' For The First Time
The Special Issue on Mind Uploading (Vol. 4, issue 1, June 2012) of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness, just released, “constitutes a significant milestone in the history of mind...
View ArticleSocially assistive robots provide a break for patients
After a stroke in April left Steve Dimon paralyzed and on life support, he felt trapped inside his own body, unable to move a finger or wiggle his toes on his left side. "A stroke is the cruelest joke...
View ArticleCMU's AndyVision Robot Is In Your Store, Doing Your Inventory
Underneath that color-coordinated hoodie is AndyVision, Carnegie Mellon's inventory assistance robot. It's programmed to take over the utter drudgery* of daily retail inventory, helping stores figure...
View ArticleSteam Punk Remakes Power Grid with Compressed Air
Danielle Fong was 12 years old when her mother decided she should go to college. Danielle’s teachers didn’t agree. Though an aptitude test put her above 99 percent of students who had already graduated...
View ArticleArtificial Cerebellum That Enables Robotic Human-Like Object Handling Developed
ScienceDaily (July 3, 2012) — University of Granada researchers have developed an artificial cerebellum (a biologically-inspired adaptive microcircuit) that controls a robotic arm with human-like...
View ArticleHEMET: Summer camp teaches kids to build robots
Many kids go to summer camps and learn how to fish, swim, ride horses and more. Campers at the Western Science Center in Hemet spent a week learning how to build, program and operate robots. Two...
View ArticleEMILY: Malibu’s Robotic Lifeguard
Lifeguards in California are integrating a new robotic assistant called EMILY – short for Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, into their arsenal of life-saving equipment. Emily is a...
View ArticleIIT-Bombay robotics competition to find solutions to daily problems
MUMBAI: The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai might get an automated solution to their problems of filling up potholes from the pan India robotics competition E-Yantra, launched by IIT-Bombay on...
View ArticleSnake Robots Could Be Used To Assist Heart Surgery
Instead of completely opening up your rib cage for a heart operation, what would you say about a smaller incision and letting a snake do it? Less pain and less scarring may be the case someday as a...
View ArticleA robot with 200 hours of power? DARPA wants one
The U.S. military’s futuristic research arm has launched a program to get more productivity out of its robots in a bid to make them more compatible companions on the battlefield. DARPA’s robots include...
View ArticleNew technologies spread arrival of robots into our lives
SAN FRANCISCO – Notre Dame came back from an early deficit and took the lead overOhio Northern University on a pass. Its defense stiffened in the second half, and it stymied ONU, 26-7. But these...
View ArticleMan and robot linked by brain scanner
Robot avatars have got a step closer to being the real world doubles of those who are paralysed or have locked-in-syndrome. Scientists have made a robot move on a human's behalf by monitoring thoughts...
View ArticleLet’s Make Robots From Everything—Even Mexican Jumping Beans
If mechanical engineer David Hu ruled the world, it would be crawling with robots based on mosquitoes, snakes, and Mexican jumping beans. Hu’s lab studies animal locomotion, but the research goes...
View Article'Most realistic' robot legs developed
US experts have developed what they say are the most biologically-accurate robotic legs yet. Writing in the Journal of Neural Engineering, they said the work could help understanding of how babies...
View ArticleNew Robot builds solar power plants
Building open area solar parks is mostly manual work. Identical processes are repeated hundreds of thousands of times, so PV-Kraftwerker have been looking into automation options for some time. At the...
View ArticleRobot eye moves like the real thing
Robotics engineers have replicated the muscle motion of the human eye to control camera systems more effectively. The new control system is based on a piezoelectric cellularactuator that allows a robot...
View ArticleDRDO in the process of developing robotic soldiers
COIMBATORE: DRDO is in the process of developing robotic soldiers, which would take a final shape soon, a top official said here on Thursday. These soldiers are capable of sensing and clearing mines,...
View ArticleFlying without pilots: Britain's robot plane
It is the ultimate flying machine: a robot plane which can take off, land, and even avoid bad weather without human intervention. But far from being a scientific dream, one is currently flying in the...
View ArticleFuture robots to work "in coordination with people" as new 8ft robot is...
Mahoro is a new, 8 foot robot in Japan that currently handles 'dangerous' lab work. The robot is able to complete many tasks, which takes years of training for most people, much quicker and more...
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