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Robobrain: The World's First Knowledge Engine For Robots
One of the most exciting changes influencing modern life is the ability to search and interact with information on a scale that has never been possible before.
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4 Seconds of Body Cam Video Can Reveal a Biometric Fingerprint, Study Says
Researchers say they can have computers examine body camera video footage and accurately identify a person wearing a body-mounted device in about four seconds,a...
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sing Robots to Get More Food From Raw Materials
SINTEF researchers are developing Gribbot, a fully functional robot designed to automate the process of extracting breast fillets from chickens, a task normally...
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Material Question
Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...
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Dumbing It Down in the Cockpit
Long gone are the leather jackets, goggles, and silk scarves flung over the shoulders of aviators who wrestled with flight controls, furiously scanned instruments...
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The Surprising ses of Games Controllers
Games controllers can end up in the strangest places.
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Opals: Light Beams Let Data Rates Soar
You may know opals as fiery gemstones, but something special called OPALS is floating above us in space. On the International Space Station, the Optical Payload...
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Two Robots, One Challenge, Endless Possibility
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing robots that can enter dangerous places.
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Web Inventor Berners-Lee: The Hidden Cost of Mass Surveillance
Sir Tim Berners-Lee this week discussed the need for governments to end mass online surveillance.
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More-Flexible Digital Communication
Researchers say they have begun to describe theoretical limits on the degree of imprecision that communicating computers can tolerate.
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Food: The Rarely Seen Robots That Package What We Eat
Last July, while touring a jelly bean factory, I came upon a startling sight.
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An Interface For Tracking Botnets That's Fit For a Sci-Fi Starship
What do you get when you ask a bunch of digital artists to dream up a state-of-the-art tool for fighting cybercrime?
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Detecting Gases Wirelessly and Cheaply
MIT chemists have devised a new way to wirelessly detect hazardous gases and environmental pollutants, using a simple sensor that can be read by a smartphone.
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Saturn's Moons: What a Difference a Decade Makes
Almost immediately after NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft made their brief visits to Saturn in the early 1980s, scientists were hungry for more.
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Uncrackable Encryption Could Secure More Than Weapons
A scientist working on a novel approach to encrypting nuclear weapons says the concept also could offer security in areas such as communications and the IT supply...
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Bridging Sensory Gap Between Artificial and Real Skin
An international team of researchers have developed a polymer designed to mimic the elastic and high-resolution sensory capabilities of real skin.
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Fujitsu Develops Compact Rfid For Wearables, Metal
Fujitsu says its new radio frequency identification tag technology can work on surfaces such as metal, which can otherwise impede radio waves.
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Apps Change the Face of Computing
As computing evolves and becomes increasingly mobile, apps are fundamentally changing actions…and interactions.
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New Research Will Help Robots Know Their Limits
Three U.K. universities are teaming up to ensure future autonomous robots and systems will be safer, and capable of making decisions based on laws and ethics.
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