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New Artificial Skin Could Make Prosthetic Limbs And Robots More SensitiveStanford CA (SPX) Sep 15, 2010 The light, tickling tread of a pesky fly landing on your face may strike most of us as one of the most aggravating of life's small annoyances. But for scientists working to develop pressure sensors for artificial skin for use on prosthetic limbs or robots, skin sensitive enough to feel the tickle of fly feet would be a huge advance. Now Stanford researchers have built such a sensor. By sandwiching a precisely molded, highly elastic rubber layer between two parallel electrodes, the team created an ... read more |
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San Francisco (AFP) Sept 7, 2010Willow Garage is out to transform the world of robotics with a formula that has helped make stars of Apple gadgets and Facebook. The Northern California company believes that third-party applications can do for robots what they did for the iPhone and the world's top online social networking service. An open-source ross.org software platform along with a PR2 robot priced at 400,000 dollar ... more  
Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Sep 09, 2010Around the Milky Way galaxy and in the vicinity of our immediate cosmic neighborhood, known as the "Local Group" of galaxies, traces of spiral galaxies swallowing dwarf galaxies have been known since 1997. But the Local group with its three spiral galaxies and numerous dwarfs is much too small a sample to see whether theoretical predictions of the frequency of such digestive processes match obse ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2010After enjoying a three-day weekend aboard the orbiting International Space Station, the Expedition 24 crew kicked off the work week Tuesday with the transfer of the atmosphere revitalization racks and preparations for the docking of the ISS Progress 39 cargo craft. The new Progress, loaded with 1,918 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen and air, 375 pounds of water and 2,645 pounds o ... more |
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NASA readies probe for up-close study of sun's coronaWashington (AFP) Sept 4, 2010 NASA said it is developing a car-sized satellite that by "no later than 2018" will plunge into the sun's outer atmosphere for an up-close study of its super-hot corona, solar wind and lethal radiation. The ambitious project, first recommended at the dawn of the space age in 1958, will help "characterize and forecast the radiation environment in which future space explorers will work and live," the US space agency said Saturday on its website. The sun probe is also part of President Barack Obama' ... read more |
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