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UD Researcher On Project Team For NASA First Visit To The SunNewark DE (SPX) Oct 08, 2010 A University of Delaware researcher is helping to design instruments for a robotic space probe that will go where no other has gone before: the sun. William Matthaeus, professor of physics and astronomy at UD, is involved in NASA's Solar Probe Plus project, which is slated to launch by 2018. The unmanned spacecraft, the size of a small car, will plunge directly into the sun's atmosphere to help uncover answers to perplexing mysteries about the fiery ball of plasma at the center of our solar system ... read more |
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Ithaca, N.Y. (UPI) Sep 23, 2010 Robots capable of helping people with everyday tasks could be available and affordable within 10 years, a U.S. researcher predicts. Ashutosh Saxena, Cornell University assistant professor of computer science, is working to bring robots into homes and offices that can clean up a messy room, assemble a flat-pack bookcase or unload a dishwasher, all without human intervention, a university ... more 
Orlando, Fla. (UPI) Sep 24, 2010 An artificial arm programmed to work automatically disappointed some users in a study - they said it was "too easy" - U.S. researchers report. University of Central Florida researchers thought the ease of using the program's automatic mode would be a huge hit, but they were surprised when most test participants preferred the manual mode-- which requires them to think several steps ahe ... more 
Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Sep 21, 2010Designers 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 huma ... more |
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Cyborgs Needed For Escape From EarthMoffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2010 Scientists have warned for decades that humans are straining the Earth. The global population is increasing, economies are expanding and consumption doesn't appear to be slowing. While save-the-planet campaigns are asking people to save energy, conserve water, recycle and even go vegetarian, some scientists are thinking literally out of this world by suggesting that humans may eventually have to consider leaving Earth if they are to survive as a species. In the September issue of Endeavour, ... read more |
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