Germany&39's Festo says it has &34'succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds.&34'
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Bird flight has fascinated mankind for cen...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The crew of the shuttle Discovery, given a "Star Trek" send off by actor William Shatner, undocked from the International...
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For aviation junkies, it doesn't get any better than the biggest air show of the year. CNET's coverage includes on-the-scene reporting from our own D...
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Venture capitalists expect greater investment next year, while CEOs of VC-backed firms are looking at more work and more hiring, according to a repor...
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Even those of us who cover e-commerce often overlook the reality of connecting the "e" part of the equation to the real world. Webvan and Kozmo.co...
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RoboDynamics' Fred Nikgohar poses with Luna.
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Rumor had it that Apple or Google was going to release this vaguely humanoid...
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The Dragon spacecraft from SpaceX.
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SpaceX has won the first-ever license from the Federal Aviation Administration allowing a priv...
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You're in a dense urban neighborhood, and you're looking for parking. You could circle for half an hour, swearing at the guy who stole the space you ...
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China will soon overtake Japan as the world's second heaviest spender on research and development, according to a report from the Battelle Memorial I...
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Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, plans to build a commercial heavy-lift rocket that will carry more than twice the payload of existing larg...
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Just one month after U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot in the head in Tucson, Ariz., her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, announced Frida...
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The first live Twitter messages from space were less than a year ago, but alread...
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The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle taxis on the flight line in 2010.
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A second mysterious, robotic space plane was launched i...
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Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say, and it''s also widespread in Paraguay, where some 300,000 families lack adequate housing. Motivated...
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Henrik Scharfe checks out his robot clone Geminoid DK, the perfect stand-in for professors who want to skip class.
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Here's a...
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Pleo the pet robot dinosaur is back after basically going extinct in 2009.
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LAS VEGAS--Pleo is an autonomous toy dinos...
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Researchers are ready to advance their tests of a novel brain-computer interface (BCI) from animals to human subjects, and the Defense Advanced Resea...
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have announced that, using inexpensive components from ordinary liquid crystal display (LCD) proje...
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editor's notebook The future just keeps getting closer and closer these days. Not only do we have iPhones with FaceTime--which, when combined wit...
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A Puerto Rican moonbuggy team in action.
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The space shuttle program may be drawing to a close, but a little bit to the south of...
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