It's inspiring to visit a university laboratory and see fresh-faced college students working on experiments that may some day have huge impacts on o...
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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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The notion of erasing memories associated with painful or harmful pasts is not a new one. But it has remained just that: a notion.
Will erasing mem...
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Ford Motor&39's Active Park Assist determines angles, then at driver&39's prompt steers a car into its space while driver controls the gas pedal, b...
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Some people believe the future is something to look forward to. And, indeed, there is some evidence that, for a small number of people--especially t...
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Austin Whitney straps on his customized exoskeleton and walks around campus with the help of UC Berkeley mechanical engineering graduate students...
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Affetto means 'affection' in Italian. Who couldn't love this little guy
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Japanese engineers have cr...
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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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Will Japan's astro-droid look cute like Actroid
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IBM announced today that nine hospitals across Russia have switched from paper-based medical systems to electronic medical records using IBM Lotus No...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Less than six weeks before launch, astronaut Timothy Kopra, injured in a bicycle accident Saturday, was removed from the ...
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Floor bots: The new Roomba 760 (back) for vacuuming and Scooba 230 (front) for scrubbing.
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LAS VEGAS--iRobot demoed it...
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The Active Scope Camera can worm its way into debris to seek survivors.
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Rescue robots are making...
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Lingodroids agreed on randomly created words to represent location, distance, and direction with surprising accuracy.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three crew members bound for the International Space Station blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan t...
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The six-member, all-veteran crew of the shuttle Discovery flew to Florida today to await their blastoff Monday on a space station resupply mission th...
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Researchers say they've used nanoparticles to create a material sensitive enough to analyze a patient's breath in real time and detect indicators of ...
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It seems you can do almost anything with robots and Kinect--perhaps even save lives. Students at the U.K.'s Unive...
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Michelangelo's "David" has seen better days. He's spent centuries on his feet. He's tired, yet he cannot take a seat.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Even using shuttle-derived hardware, established contractors, and long-standing engineering expertise, NASA's projected b...
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