Monthly Archives: May, 2010

Omek Interactive – Like Microsoft’s Project Natal, But for Everyone (video)

Omek Interactive wants to put you in the game...and in the TV...and in the computer. The Israel based company has developed Shadow SDK, a...

Slobots – Robot Sculpture For the Obsessively Creative (video)

We've been finding tons of cool robot art on the web, recently. Some of the best looking sculptures that you can actually buy come...

Arrayent: Bringing You The Internet Of Things

Silicon Valley based Arrayent is finding ways to bring even the simplest of electronic devices onto the web. When you connect your household devices...

Another Attempt to Use fMRI Lie Detector in US Court Fails in Brooklyn. More on the Way.

Another push to use fMRI lie detection technology in US courts failed, but the concept seems unwilling to die. According to Wired, David Zevin,...

New Age of Exploration: Robots Swarm into Land, Sea, and Space

Has the age of human explorers come to an end? There are several projects underway that are sending robots where humans dare not tread....

Harvard Starts Heart Outside Body, Preserves Organs for 10 Days

Science fiction is fraught with mad scientists who discover strange chemicals that can empower the human body or even reanimate the dead. Well, Harvard...

Siftables Are Changing the Shape of Computing

What if computers were more like a child's wooden blocks? Siftables are a new approach to computing developed by David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanthi....

Remote Controlled Robot Performs Heart Surgery on British Man (video)

On April 28th, for the first time ever, a British doctor at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital used a catheter robot to perform heart surgery on...

New API Takes Facial Recognition From Facebook and Puts It Everywhere

Face.com, the company responsible for Facebook applications Photo Tagger and Photo Finder, lets you take any photo and quickly identify who is...

Breaking News: Willow Garage Announces 11 Winners for its Robot Give Away

Today is a good day to be a robotics engineer. Not only is it the first day of ICRA, it's the day that Willow...

Great Video of Jaw Bone Grown From Stem Cells

Researchers at Columbia University grabbed our attention last year when they managed to grow a fully viable section of the jawbone from human stem...

How Does Stephen Hawking Talk? (video)

There are few scientists that have captivated the public interest as much as renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking. His theories about black holes, his...

Controlling a Hexapod Robot with an iPhone or Droid Phone (video)

The insect like Heximotional robot is amazing to watch, especially when it's playing video games. Developed by Robert Stephenson of University of the West...

Factory, Schmactory, My Life Sciences Lab Has Been Automated for Years (video)

Sure, you've seen factory floors filled with endless rows of robots but the automation revolution reaches far beyond manufacturing. All over the world, researchers...

Bio-Fab Ready to Distribute Building Blocks of Synthetic Life

The first biological design-build facility in the world announced that it will soon be able to synthesize chemicals, fuels and new drugs by manipulating...
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