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Cybernetics and Robotics News - March 2008 Archives
 | An 8-year-old Jersey dairy cow is back at her Kansas farm thanks to a decade of research and an experimental surgery. ...> Full Article |
As fantastic as computers are at processing mountains of data at lightning speed, they still can't beat the human brain at, for instance, detecting a friend's face in a crowded airport terminal, or even at more specialized tasks such as detecting suspicious objects in X-ray scans of checked baggage. The human brain can do these tasks not just very well but also very rapidly, within a fraction of a second, says Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientist Maximilian Riesenhuber, Ph.D., of the Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. However, while the brain's visual system can perform the actual detection task very rapidly, even for multiple images presented at the same time, turning these decisions into behavioral responses is much slower.
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 | Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching, compressing, folding and other types of extreme mechanical deformations, without a reduction in electrical performance. ...> Full Article |
A central Ohio man has become the first person in the United States, and only the 16th worldwide, to receive a heart implant designed to improve the heart's pumping action and help manage congestive heart failure symptoms. The procedure was performed at The Ohio State University Medical Center.
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 | Scientists have found a way to instruct a robot to find and deliver an item it may have never seen before using a more direct manner of communication -- a laser pointer ...> Full Article |
 | Underwater exploration may become easier in the future thanks to a new prototype crab-like robot ...> Full Article |
Study conducted by team from UMass Amherst, University of Washington
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Scientists have reported on a gel that, while having the pliancy of gelatin, won't break apart even when deformed over 1,000 percent.
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 | Neuroscientists, brain surgeons, graduate students, rehabilitation specialists and neurologists are joining forces to develop new technology aimed at repairing and regenerating peripheral nerves that connect the brain, spinal cord, and the body. ...> Full Article |
 | Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or touch-based, interface developed at Carnegie Mellon University. ...> Full Article |
 | ROBOTC Language Supports LEGO Mindstorms and Other Educational Robots ...> Full Article |
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