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Ninomiya-kun book-reading 'bot is like a three foot tall Kindle

Friday, June 12, 2009 - 1:21pm

The average student's backpack is loaded with a bunch of books. For the average robotic student? A backpack stuffed with a computer, which allows that 'bot to read said books. Ninomiya-kun, a robot built by Japan's Waseda University (along with...

Stem cell-coated contact lens restores vision to the partially sighted

DVICE Staff

Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 2:01am

Researchers from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, have come up with a revolutionary treatment for corneal disease that involves growing stem cells from the patient on a contact lens. After ten days, the lens is then...

Claw-wielding robot climbs telephone poles in mere seconds

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 12:49pm

Just this morning we told you how Boston Dynamics is getting robots to hop like rabbits, and now the company, working with the University of Pennsylvania's "Kod*lab," has them climbing up poles. The 28-inch-long RiSE V3 has four claw-tipped legs...

Boeing's Airborne Laser shot down by the DoD along with another sci-fi weapon

Kevin Hall

Friday, May 8, 2009 - 2:32am

We're never going to get to The Future at this rate. The Department of Defense is cutting two big sci-fi-ish projects in an effort to funnel its resources toward more practical research. Namely, both the Airborne Laser and the Multiple...

Dr. Robot's Hawk 'bot serves drinks, plays drums and does anything else you teach it

Kevin Hall

Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 3:38pm

From the frozen north comes the Hawk, a 'bot made by Canadian robotics R&D firm Dr. Robot (which is led by Dr. Haipeng Xie, who we assume is also a robot). The Hawk takes the shape of a lot of...

Energy storage device harnesses the awesome power and efficiency of, uh, farts

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 12:46pm

Here's a new green machine that coaxes microbes into farting, storing the resulting methane for later use. Because windmills and solar panels only work when the wind's blowing or the sun's shining, scientists are looking for the most efficient ways...

Cymascope machine translates dolphin-speak into Egyptian-like hieroglyphics

Kevin Hall

Monday, April 13, 2009 - 3:03pm

UK-based acoustics engineer John Reid has been working on a machine for a decade that may be able to translate dolphin talk in much the same way that we decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics. Called the Cymascope, the device analyzes the noises...

Scientist AI hailed as first to discover 'new scientific knowledge' on its own

Kevin Hall

Friday, April 3, 2009 - 2:53pm

It sounds ripped from the pages of scyence fyction, but a robot named Adam could be the world's first automated scientist. Developed by Aberystwyth University in the UK, Adam is capable of performing 1,000 experiments in a day as it...

Fusion power research gaining momentum; first test in June

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 8:48am

Could we be getting close to nuclear fusion power? We'll find out in a couple of months, when scientists at the U.S. National Ignition Facility fire up their 192 lasers for a nanosecond or two, blasting 1.8 megajoules of ultraviolet...

Grey goo, anyone? Scientists create robotic cubes that can reproduce

Kevin Hall

Friday, March 20, 2009 - 12:10pm

Researchers at Cornell University in New York have created robotic cubes that can create copies of themselves in under three minutes which, surprisingly, the scientists purport are simple machines. Self-replicating robots are simple? That's because that's all the cubes do...

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Ninomiya-kun book-reading 'bot is like a three foot tall Kindle

Stem cell-coated contact lens restores vision to the partially sighted

Claw-wielding robot climbs telephone poles in mere seconds

Boeing's Airborne Laser shot down by the DoD along with another sci-fi weapon

Dr. Robot's Hawk 'bot serves drinks, plays drums and does anything else you teach it

Energy storage device harnesses the awesome power and efficiency of, uh, farts

Cymascope machine translates dolphin-speak into Egyptian-like hieroglyphics

Scientist AI hailed as first to discover 'new scientific knowledge' on its own

Fusion power research gaining momentum; first test in June

Grey goo, anyone? Scientists create robotic cubes that can reproduce

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