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Like it or not, the day is coming when we’ll live side by side with humanoids. But although most modern robots can grip objects and avoid walls, they lack a vital quality in any companion: feeling. They don’t need to get your jokes or sense that you had a bad day, but without all-over sensors that can detect things like motion and body heat, there’s nothing to tell them that, for instance, read more »
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The Beast: Like a well trained soldier, this automated and unmanned machine can both lead the way for the troops in risky conditions and strike against the enemy, at the blink of an eyelid, with deadly precision. MULE might not sound like a very serious name, but you would never really want to be on the wrong side of this robotic marvel being designed by the US army. read more »
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Tomorrow’s household robots will become amazingly intelligent

By Dick Pelletier

For years, entrepreneurs have been trying to create robots to perform life’s physical drudgeries. Building mechanical bodies has been easy, but creating artificial minds to control those bodies has been frustrating.

After countless commercial failures though, things are beginn... read more »
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When scientists discovered that sickle-cell anemia could be cured by using nanotech to relocate a single amino acid in the blood that had erroneously read more »
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When thinking about the future of robotics, it is important to understand how fast the field is progressing. To this end, I’d like to share with you read more »
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This is the helmet that will allow the next generation of fighter jet pilots to see through their own aircraft. Honestly. read more »
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A sensor-based idea first drawn up and tested in the Harvard University Robotics Lab and originally funded by DARPA research grants has now read more »
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The armor of the African fish Polypterus senegalus is so effective that it sports the best of the best in body armor because it is a composite of read more »
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