Study unfolds a new class of mechanical devices
It took just over 10 years, but real science has finally caught up to the science fiction of Iron Man's transforming exoskeleton suit.
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Guiding principles that regulate choice of grasp type during a human-robot exchange of objects
There is a time when successful cooperation between humans and robots has decisive importance—when one is required to hand an object to the other, and therefore, to coordinate their actions accordingly. Researchers are ...
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The first walking robot that moves without GPS
Desert ants are extraordinary solitary navigators. Researchers at CNRS and Aix-Marseille University, in the Institut des Sciences du Mouvement—Étienne Jules Marey (ISM), were inspired by ants as they designed AntBot, the ...
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Researchers develop a new system to detect abuse in online communities
A team of researchers at Avignon University has recently developed a system to automatically detect abuse in online communities. This system, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, was found to outperform existing approaches ...
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Apple patent talk: Another keyless wonder as the car sees you approach
Ideas, complaints and arguments over the best safe—and convenient—systems for driver authentication are easy to find. Apple some time back filed a patent suggesting a way to access the vehicle. The car would recognize ...
Engineering
We just 3-D-printed a microphone in the lab – and the things coming next are pure science fiction
The idea of creating a physical object from a digital file is fascinating. It conjures memories of the replicators in Star Trek that can create everything from clothes to starship components to different foods. Today's 3-D ...
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