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Monday, 6 May 2013

Robo-docs: RP-VITA bot now in 7 hospitals

RP-VITA can navigate to your room to put you in touch with a doctor, and it's being used in everything from newborn care to stroke treatment. (Credit: iRobot) Would you mind if your doctor were treating you through a display on top of a robot? What if that display could save your life?

Intel revamps chipsets in new mobile push

The Silicon Valley giant said its new, low-power, high-performance Silvermont chip design could be used in segments ranging from smartphones to the data center. "Silvermont will be the foundation for a range of innovative products beginning to come to market later this year," Intel said in a statement.

If you?re a fan of shows like ?Modern Family,? ?Family Guy? or ?Community,? you?ll be happy to know that the <a href="http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/hulu-plus/35eeb915-64d1-44a4-ae34-2

Cloud | Dell Nabs Cloud Gurus as Software Makeover Continues

Dell CEO and founder Michael D

The autonomous aircraft's successful ability to grab a special cable upon landing sets it up for its first carrier tests later this month. (Credit: U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy's X-47B is one step closer to being ready to start making test flights off of aircraft carriers after completing its first-ever arrested landing.

I've just released Symfony 2.1.10. It fixes quite a few bugs. Here are
some of the most interesting ones:

MIT researchers [http://groups.csail.mit.edu/marine/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page] plan to use Baxter to scan hundreds of objects and people. Their goal is to create a comprehensive 3D library. Using Baxter to perform this repetitive task saves them time and improves the quality of the scans. Read more about Baxter: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/baxter

If you find yourself at a SoHo bar this week, and you spot a discarded napkin with scribbles on it, you might want to take a second look: The odds are slightly better than usual that those scribbles will be Madison Avenue's next winning idea.

It is a bank holiday, and we are all quite?cheerful, post company barbecue, so I will keep this brief. Here?s a motion tracking demo from Erik Haberup. He says:

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Astronaut Neil Armstrong's EKG reading from the moment he first stepped on the moon is going up for auction along with some other interesting space memorabilia, including Buzz Aldrin's space onesie. <

NASA to Mark 40th Anniversary of Skylab and Life Off Earth WASHINGTON -- NASA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of America's first space station Monday, May 13, with a televised roundtable discussion featuring Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and agency managers planning future space missions.

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Robots Podcast #129: Controlled flight of insect-sized rob

A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it?an object's location, size, shap

The gun debate expands to include plastic firearms that can be printed at home, with lawmakers expressing concerns about new technology. (Credit: YouTube/DXLiberty) A Texas man has become the first person to successfully fire a real bullet from a gun created on a home 3D printer. Sound crazy?

A student with muscular dystrophy could not open his own school locker, so two robotics students stepped up to build an automated opener to give him a hand.

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In this well-argued talk, Timothy Bartik makes the macro-economic case for preschool education -- and explains why you should be happy to invest in it, even if you don't have kids that age (or kids at all). The economic benefits of well-educated kids, it turns out, go well beyond the altruistic.

A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it -- an object's location, size, s

Fifty teams of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will demonstrate their lunar excavator robots May 20 - 24 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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