Resident Roboticist: Your Own Rosie
Rao's team set out to discover whether an EEG-based BCI could be pushed further ? to control the 2-ft.-tall, partially autonomous Morpheus. (His friends call him "Mo.") Donning a cap studded with 32 electrodes, subjects watch a television ... [... more]
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Darpa's Tough New Robot Road Test
Even in the wide-open desert of the 2004 Grand Challenge, none of the vehicles crossed the finish line. In 2005, CalTech's UGV plowed through a concrete K-rail barrier when overhead powerlines corrupted the vehicle's GPS readings. The more ... [... more]
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Q&A: Roboticist On Sci-Fi's Broken Promises
A We did get it, but it's not the carefree, lighthearted tech we were expecting. Any kid can think of a million dirty things to do with X-ray specs, but that's not what they do. But I don't want to sound pessimistic. Even the silly ideas can be ... [... more]
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Robot Soccer
But the strategies only work if the dogs can find the ball. It's a skill the robots had mastered back in the lab, but the change in venue has created mischief. After their first game, Sklar and her teammates sprawl on the field with their laptop ... [... more]
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To Practice For Mars, Nasa Dives Deep
Yesterday the astronauts were practicing "exploration ops"-probing the most fundamental questions about the process of exploration (so basic that they're hardly ever thought about on Earth). The answer to each question is critical for survival ... [... more]
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Astronaut Tom Jones On Nasa's New Cev, And More: Techwatch
The situation at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico wasn't dire, but it wasn't good. For more than two weeks a salt-shaker-size cylinder of cobalt-60 had been irradiating a 3000-sq.-ft. testing facility with enough gamma rays to kill a human ... [... more]
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Darpa Grand Challenge Winner
A team of 65 students, professors, engineers, designers and programmers from Stanford University and its private-sector partners (Volkswagen, Intel and other companies) had spent a year transforming the Touareg, nicknamed Stanley, into a robot--a ... [... more]
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Meet The Mythbusters
On MythBusters, our Discovery Channel show, we conduct scientific experiments to determine the truth of tall tales and urban legends. Here's one example: The story goes that an Air Force sergeant in Arizona attached a jet-assisted take off ... [... more]
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The Top 50 Inventions Of The Past 50 Years
In 1956, Wilson Greatbatch grabs the wrong resistor and connects it to a device he is building to record heartbeats. When the circuit emits a pulse, he realizes the device can be used to control the beat; in 1960 the first PACEMAKER is ... [... more]
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Videos From Darpa's 2005 Grand Challenge Race
Videography by Hisham@ThePhotographyMachine.com, Editing by Angela Diegel Videos From DARPA's 2005 Grand Challenge Race [... more]
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Videos From Darpa's 2005 Grand Challenge Trial
Videography by Hisham@ThePhotographyMachine.com, Editing by Angela Diegel Click on image to watch the first malfunctioning vehicle of the day. PRIMM, Nev.--A couple of dry runs before the big day tomorrow. Click on image to walk around Team ... [... more]
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Darpa 2005 Robotic Road Rally Preliminary Photos
The photos on this page are from the trial run of Tommy, a bot created by Team Jefferson from Charlottesville, Va. Apparently, they had an engine failure during the first run, so the judges let them try again. But alas, Tommy did not ... [... more]
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