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Eco Factor: Wind turbine inspecting robot. Recently news surfaced that a wind turbine in England was hammered by an alien spacecraft. We don’t want to unravel any answers to the ET mystery here, but we just want to acknowledge the fact that wind turbines have always been subjected to degradation which can any day result in a catastrophe. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Fa read more »
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Eco Factor: Multipurpose robot is powered by solar energy. According to a research conducted by International Federation of Robotics, there were 3.4 million personal service robots in use by the end of 2007. Since most of these robots are programmed to perform a specific task their number is expected to grow by leaps and bounds. read more »
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I know that the future foresees a greater role played by robots in our daily lives. They have come a long way from stiff mechanical arms on the read more »
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The movie "Wall-E," a futuristic tale of a trash-compacting robot, has become a money-making machine at the box office. Here are some key components read more »
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For those of us who think it's very likely that technology's accelerating pace of advance is soon going to become too rapid to follow, developments l read more »
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When you link the brain to a device, it could allow scaling in force and time —things that, today, your body can’t do. For sci-fi fans, the implicati read more »
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