Robots and the rest of us

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Visionaries in the past have imagined robots that look and work like us, perceive the world and take actions on their own. Experts uneasily point out that robots are challenging humankind on various fronts wherein if improperly programmed, it could set fire to buildings, slit a persons throat and enter a crowded mall before detonating itself.

Computer vision, Technology application, Robots, Machine vision, Robot

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The dream factory

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Neil Gershenfeld of MIT's Centre for Bits and Atoms and his students are projecting mobile manufacturing systems that they call fabrication laboratories, or fab labs. Their latest version consists of three Linux PCs, a laser cutter, a combination 3-D scanner and a handful of RISC chips.

Computers, Computer systems, Gershenfeld, Neil

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Cosmic reality check: Surprise! Our little corner of the universe is even smaller than we thought

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Findings deriving from t he Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) experiment are changing our ideas about the history and structure of the universe.

Guided missiles and space vehicles, Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing, Scientific Satellites, Innovations, Measurement, Column, Observations, Dark matter (Astronomy), Cosmology, Microwaves, Cosmic background radiation, Cosmic physics, Cosmological physics, Dark matter, Dark energy

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