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Emotional Robot PetsTaipei, Taiwan (SPX) Sep 21, 2010 Designers of robot pets are fighting a never-ending battle with consumers to provide entertaining and realistic gadgets that respond to human interaction in ever more nuanced ways, mimicking the behavior of real pet animals or even people. Researchers in Taiwan are now looking at a new design paradigm that could see the development of a robot vision module that might one-day recognize human facial expressions and respond appropriately. Part of the problem is that robot design takes a long ti ... read more |
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Husum WA (SPX) Sep 13, 2010Aerovel's Flexrotor miniature aircraft entered a new development phase Tuesday as the first prototype, named Pandora, began flight test. The table-top sized aircraft is designed for more than 3000 km range, and endurance exceeding a day and a half. In announcing its first flight, Aerovel's president, Tad McGeer - who previously led development of the Aerosonde and Scaneagle robotic aircraf ... more  
Berkeley CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2010Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a pressure-sensitive electronic material from semiconductor nanowires that could one day give new meaning to the term "thin-skinned." "The idea is to have a material that functions like the human skin, which means incorporating the ability to feel and touch objects," said Ali Javey, associate professor of electrical engine ... more  
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Sep 10, 2010 The space shuttle Discovery rolled out of its hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the first leg of its final mission into space, officials said. Discovery, the oldest space shuttle in NASA's fleet, was moved from its maintenance hangar early Thursday on its way to the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building, Space.com reported. The move had been planned for Wednesday but ... more |
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Japan rapid scanning system can digitise book in one minuteTokyo (AFP) Sept 10, 2010 Japanese researchers said Friday they had developed technology to scan a book as fast as a person can flip through it. A prototype ultra-speed scanner capable of digitising a book in one minute will be built within two years, said the chief researcher of the team at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. The "book-flipping scanning" system works with a camera that can take up to 500 photographs per second, enabling it to record about 170 book pages in 60 ... read more |
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