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Retinal Implants May Be Significantly Enhanced With New Software (April 13, 2007) -- Neural computation scientists have created a software system that is hoped to improve the function of retinal implants significantly: With the aid of the software, the visual prosthesis "learns" to ... > full story

Futuristic Robot Adapts To People, New Places (April 11, 2007) -- In the futuristic cartoon series "The Jetsons," a robotic maid named Rosie whizzed around the Jetsons' home doing household chores -- cleaning, cooking dinner and washing dishes. Such a vision of ... > full story

Robotics: Engineers Announce Plastic, Air- And Light-driven Device More Precise Than Human Hand (April 7, 2007) -- Engineers report the invention of a motor without metal or electricity that can safely power remote-controlled robotic medical devices used for cancer biopsies and therapies guided by magnetic ... > full story

Virtual Reality For Virtual Eternity (April 5, 2007) -- Imagine having a discussion with Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein on the nature of the universe, where their 3-D, life-sized representations looked you in the eye, examined your body language, ... > full story

Machine Shop Keeps Robots Rolling (April 5, 2007) -- Rich Polak spends most of his days repairing and maintaining vacuum chambers used to test ion thrusters for NASA's deep space missions. Though his job is anything but routine, Polak recently ... > full story

First Impressions: Computer Model Behaves Like Humans On Visual Categorization Task (April 3, 2007) -- In a new MIT study, a computer model designed to mimic how the brain itself processes visual information performs as well as humans do on rapid categorization tasks. This study supports the ... > full story

Studying Snail Slime Substitutes (March 24, 2007) -- A team of engineers have set a small robot climbing walls in order to compare how natural and artificial snail slimes work. A snail's slime acts as both a glue and a lubricant, allowing the snail to ... > full story

Working To Develop Robotic Locomotion That Mimics Amoeba (March 23, 2007) -- Dennis Hong is designing his Whole Skin Locomotion (WSL) mechanism to work on much the same principle as the pseudopod -- or cytoplasmic "foot" -- of the amoeba. Preliminary experiments show that a ... > full story

Handheld 'Smart' Museum Guide Unveiled (March 21, 2007) -- In a cooperative project, researchers from the Caesarea Rothschild Institute at the University of Haifa and The Center for Scientific and Technological Research (ITC-irst) of Trento, Italy developed ... > full story

Why Computers Frustrate Older Adults (March 17, 2007) -- A number of evolving social changes highlight the importance of making computer technology accessible and usable for older adults. For instance, older adults are using email increasingly to keep up ... > full story

Novel Salamander Robot Crawls Its Way Up The Evolutionary Ladder (March 9, 2007) -- A group of European researchers has developed a spinal cord model of the salamander and implemented it in a novel amphibious salamander-like robot. The robot changes its speed and gait in response to ... > full story

Conflicting Signals Can Confuse Rescue Robots (March 3, 2007) -- Researchers at NIST report that the radio transmissions of multiple search and rescue robots can interfere with each other and degrade ... > full story

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