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Mars Rover Shadow: NASA's 'Opportunity' Sees Own Dark Outline In Dramatic Photo
Huffington Post
... up a huge Martian crater in a spectacular new photo snapped by NASA's Opportunity rover, and the robot's own shadow makes it into the shot. The Opportunity rover was perched at the western edge of Mars' Endeavour Crater when it captured the image.

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The Atlantic
The Brain-Computer Interface That Let a Paralyzed Patient Drink a Cup of Coffee
The Atlantic
By David Ewing Duncan Two severely paralyzed people operated robotic arms and prosthetics using thoughts captured by implants in their brains, a new study disclosed. Inside the brain of a test subject known as S3, a symphony of neurons fired in her ...

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'Six-eyed' robot to tour National Museum of Australia
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While each camera captures 30 frames per second, and while they do so at just 1024x768 images the spherical lens employed offers more verisimilitude than a conventional camera. The project will take images from the five Ladybugs mounted horizontally ...

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BBC News
Real-world beaming: The risk of avatar and robot crime
BBC News
The visitor may be embodied as an avatar or a robot, interacting with real people. Motion capture technology - such as the Microsoft Kinect games console - robots, 3D glasses and special haptic suits with body sensors can all be used to create a rich, ...

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Students at Academy of Art University Create Robotic Design for NASA
AZoRobotics
For this initiative, several capturing images will be captured using the robot's cameras and various measurements will be made with various other robot-mounted instruments. NASA will perform this engineering test using student designs.


 
Plain Dealer
Elton John hospitalized; Paula praises Britney; Bobby Womack is cancer-free ...
Plain Dealer
By Plain Dealer staff Fort Wayne Journal GazetteElton John, captured during a concert in Fort Wayne, Ind., last month, has been hospitalized with what's been described as a serious respiratory infection. Elton John hospitalized with "serious" ...


 
In Search of the Next World-Changing Tech Company
TechNewsWorld
One of my favorite movies is the old Forbidden Planet, because it has a Robot (Robbie) that bears my name. One of the more fascinating parts is when the semi-evil scientist is able to think about his daughter and a 3D image of her is projected in real ...

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