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Monthly Archives: August, 2010

Solar Roadways: Crackpot Idea or Ingenious Concept?

Aaron Saenz -
Scott and Julie Brusaw have a way of solving the energy crisis, it just involves you driving on glass. The Brusaws are the founders...

Shadow’s Robot Hand is Now Using the Robot Operating System

Aaron Saenz -
Shadow Robot Company has joined the ranks of Willow Garage, iRobot, and many other robot developers which have some of their hardware running the...

Robot With Artificial Gut Eats Waste For Electrical Power (video)

Aaron Saenz -
The Matrix had it all wrong. Robots won't turn our bodies into batteries. No, no. no...they'll use our poop. The Bristol Robotics Laboratory has...

Exercise Boosts Your Brain – Here’s How

Drew Halley -
We all know exercise is your best shot at having a healthy heart, a strong immune system, and maybe even a 100th birthday party....
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Robot Guide Premiers in Shopping Mall in Spain (video)

Aaron Saenz -
The REEM-H1 is the kind of robot guide your grandma would love, it escorts you where you need to go and will...

Unleashing the Power of the Savant Brain in All of Us

Aaron Saenz -
What if you had perfect pitch, a photographic memory, and astounding artistic ability? Allan Snyder thinks you already do. Snyder is the director of...

Robot Vans Drive, Driverless, from Italy to China (Video)

Drew Halley -
It’s the perfect sci-fi fantasy: climb into your car, set it to autopilot, then just lean back and enjoy your morning coffee as you’re...

Arteriocyte Produces Artificial Blood, Seeks FDA Approval

Peniel M. Dimberu -
In the wildly popular HBO show “True Blood”, the creation of synthetic blood allows vampires to join the human society as they no longer...

Touch Bionics Gives an 18-Year-Old Amputee His Hand Back (Video)

Drew Halley -
The Today Show recently ran a feature on an 18-year-old who was recently outfitted with ProDigits, the partial hand prosthesis developed by Touch Bionics....

Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm Begins the First Human Testing

Drew Halley -
The world’s first human testing of a mind-controlled artificial limb is ready to begin. A joint project between the Pentagon and Johns Hopkins...

Making the Modern Do-It-Yourself Biology Laboratory (video)

Aaron Saenz -
There was a time when only scientists used computers.  Now systems that are thousands of times more powerful are available to nearly everyone. Bio-technology...

Geron Restarts Embryonic Stem Cell Clinical Trials for Spinal Cord Injury

Aaron Saenz -
Almost a year after the FDA halted the study, Geron's clinical trial for a human embryonic stem cell (hESC) therapy for spinal cord injury...

Robot Soccer Keeps Getting Better – RoboCup 2010 in Singapore (video)

Aaron Saenz -
"The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is by 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human...

Cloning Extinct Species: How Close Are We?

Drew Halley -
For as long as life has been a feature of this planet, natural selection has been wiping out species with subpar adaptive strategies. ...

A-Star’s Social Robots Make a Splash in Singapore (Video)

Aaron Saenz -
What if your iPhone suddenly sprouted arms and started speaking? You'd end up with something close to A-Star's newest line of social robots....
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