Robots Race Across Mojave for $2M Prize – Yahoo! News PRIMM, Nev. – Three robotic vehicles cruised past the finish line Saturday in a Pentagon-sponsored race across the rugged Mojave desert, giving scientists hope that robots could one day wage battles without endangering soldiers. … The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, plans […]
Read more "Robots Race Across Mojave for $2M Prize"via Spectrum IEEE Rise of the Body Bots .. Today, in Japan and the United States, engineers are finally putting some practical exoskeletons through their paces outside of laboratories. But don’t look for these remarkable new systems to bust bricks or spew lightning. The very first commercially available exoskeleton, scheduled to hit the market in […]
Read more "functional exoskeletons coming soon?"Biologically inspired by the common carp, the new designs can avoid objects and swim around a specially designed tank entirely of their own accord.
Read more "release the fish-bots"Will We Merge With Machines? – Popular Science Popular Science has scoured the most promising research under way in bioengineering laboratories worldwide to take an informed look at how technology will enter and alter our bodies over the coming decades.
Read more "PopularScience overview of biotech.."A Black Box for People About the size of a computer mouse, a CPOD is worn around the waist. It’s comfortable enough to be worn while sleeping. It’s non-invasive. It takes only minutes to don. Importantly, it can track a person’s physiologic functioning as they go about their normal routine — they don’t have to […]
Read more "when monitoring the people ain’t a bad thing.."CNN.com – The machine that can copy anything – Jun 2, 2005 But Bowyer told CNN the RepRap’s ability to copy itself could put rapid prototyping technology within reach of the world’s poorest communities by alleviating the need for the sort of large-scale industrial infrastructure common across the developed world. “People can start manufacturing goods […]
Read more "soon, will everything be a copy of a copy of.."move over Fuel Cells, aussie scientists are building a Kinetic Cell!
Read more "move over Fuel Cells, aussie scientists are building a Kinetic Cell!"be guided around by a set of headphones..
Read more "be guided around by a set of headphones.."Coming soon – cordless recharging of mobile devices..
Read more "Coming soon – cordless recharging of mobile devices.."Mobile phone maker Motorola Inc. plans to introduce a device that would seamlessly switch calls from cellular networks to cheaper Wi-Fi networks wherever they’re available. Discount carrier IDT Corp. is testing consumer Wi-Fi phone service in Newark, New Jersey.
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