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Better Hands May Help Robots Grasp Meaning
Two recent studies show that roboticists are applying some fresh thinking to the building and operation of robot hands, and a third suggests why the work is so...
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Body Organs Can Send Status pdates to Your Cellphone
For cardiac patients such as myself, too much excitement can be a shocking experience. If my heart rate gets too high the implanted defibrillator in my chest can...
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You Too Can Have a Dream Body
If you dislike the way you look on video, a new kind of image-manipulation software could make you feel better about yourself.
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Shape-Shifting Robot Compensates For Damaged Limb
European roboticists have developed software that enables a modular robot to adapt when one part stops working.
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The Mind's Eye: How the Brain Sorts Out What You See
Can you tell a snake from a pretzel? Some can't—and their experiences are revealing how the brain builds up a coherent picture of the world.
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Atom Images Raise Quantum Computer Hopes
Fast quantum computers made of atoms trapped by beams of light could be a step closer, thanks to the first images of the individual atoms in such a grid.
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Tide Turns Against Million-Dollar Maths Proof
Initially hailed as a solution to the biggest question in computer science, the latest attempt to prove P ≠ NP—otherwise known as the "P vs NP" problem—seems to...
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Future on Display: Technology You'll Want to Stroke
Whatever you might expect from the latest computer technology, fur is unlikely to be one of them.
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Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Intelligence
For generations, the Avidians have been cloning themselves quietly in a box. They're not perfect, but most of their mutations go unnoticed. Then something remarkable...
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Team-Working Robots Huddle Together to Boost Comms
When you are in hostile territory, it pays to stick together—especially if you are a robot. Falling into line will be easier with an innovative communication system...
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Perfecting Synthetic Sounds For Animated Worlds
If computers can generate the imagery in animated movies like Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me, why can't they also generate the sound effects to go with them?
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Google May Know Your Desires Before You Do
Google attempts to return relevant search results in the blink of an eye. But in future it could go one better, delivering search results to its users even before...
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Geo-Tags Reveal Celeb Secrets
U.S. computer scientists have demonstrated that by using information from Internet images and videos it is possible to determine the addresses and locations of...
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Shrewd Search Engines Know What You Want
For better or worse, search engines have become the gateway to the Web. They help users to find information, advertisers to sell products—they even help hackers...
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Crunching Cancer With Numbers
When Danny Hillis spent a day watching a top surgeon perform keyhole cancer surgery, he was left both exhilarated and depressed. The clinical precision with which...
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Search Engines Learn How to Watch and Listen to Video
Missed the winning goal in that crucial football match at the 2010 FIFA World Cup? Just get on the net and you'll find hours of user-generated video content of...
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Share Information to Boost Cellphone Performance
Dartmouth College researchers led by Emiliano Miluzzo say that sharing data gathered by cell phone sensors could improve the accuracy of the data and the applications...
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Blogs and Tweets Could Predict the Future
Forecasts about social and economic trends could be generated through the analysis of blogs and tweets, building on earlier research by Google and others to mine...
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Microsoft's Kinect Isn't Just For Games
Microsoft's long-awaited body-sensing technology, Project Natal, got a new name last week at the E3 expo in Los Angeles. Kinect, as it is now called, is a set-top...
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