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Japan unveils always-willing dental patient - a robotTokyo (AFP) March 25, 2010 Few people would want to be guinea pigs for aspiring dentists but Japan has found an always-willing patient - a robot. Doctors and robotics researchers on Thursday unveiled a humanoid that happily goes under the drill for orthodontics students and can also express pain, roll her eyes and even drool like a real patient. "Hello," female-looking "Hanako" said cheerfully as an aspiring dentist closed in during a presentation in Tokyo. "Please take care of me." But the robo-patient's mood can qu ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Mar 17, 2010Production of the Automated Transfer Vehicles is gearing up. After the flawless flight of the first ATV, Jules Verne, the second, Johannes Kepler, is being completed for launch later this year. Now the third ATV has been named after the Italian physicist and space pioneer Edoardo Amaldi. Europe's ATV space freighter proved its maturity in 2008, when Jules Verne completed a demonstration fl ... more  
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 16, 2010Astrobotic Technology will carry 240 lbs. (109 kg) to the Moon for researchers and marketers as part of its maiden expedition in 2012 to win the Google Lunar X Prize. Science instruments, prototype exploration devices and commercial packages will be carried at $700,000 per pound, plus a $250,000 fee per payload to cover the engineering costs of integrating it into either the expedition's lander ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2010This year, much of the buzz surrounding the 82nd Annual Academy Awards was focused on the technological achievements of James Cameron's Avatar. In this tale of habitable, extrasolar moons and extraterrestrial mining operations, Cameron brought the concept of 'tele-exploration' to the general public. For those who haven't seen the world box-office-record-holding film, it is the tale of a wo ... more |
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Japanese baby-bot with runny nose teaches parenting skillsTsukuba, Japan (AFP) March 10, 2010 It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby. The cuddly baby-bot looks unearthly with a pair of luminous blue eyes and oversized cheeks, but engineering students are hoping it will teach young people the pleasures of parenting as Japan faces a demographic crisis. "Yotaro is a robot with which you can experience physical contact just like with a real baby and ... read more |
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