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NASA Starts 2007 Competition to Build Space Elevator |
 ... be the fastest to climb their robot but the speed of their robot was only an inch and a half per second.
Though the idea to build a space elevator was introduced several decades ago by fiction writers and scientists, no one managed to build one yet. Experts at Beam Power Challenge hope to find a key at least to an answer of getting the power to the space elevator.
If the invention of space elevator becomes a ... |
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Humanoids continue invading |
 ...The 21st century is not the time, when people can be easily impressed, this can be refered to another, whether weird or wise, invention of the Japanese, that is a humanoid robot.
On the other hand the most impressive thing is that people are still striving to create somebody, or something, to resemble themselves.
This game has ended up in a demonstration of bots to help the aging population of Japan in their everyda... |
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Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming |
 ...d that there is a necessity for scientific appeal to policy makers. Thus a new committee was called to deal with the issue.
The exploration of both poles will draw the latest technology, including robots and satellites, to make an observation on minor changes in ice thickness. The meetings held on previous polar year sessions were mainly focused on the discovery of Arctic and Antarctic areas, these being largely unexpl... |
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Robot to Help Neurosurgery |
 ...Surgery can take a huge step towards the future due to a new surgical robot system, developed at University of Calgary. Surgeons' mistakes will no longer take place because the NeuroArm is going to upgrade the level of neurosurgery as well as other branches of operative medicine.
It it the first MRI-compatible robot in the world and its creator is Dr. Garnette Sutherland. For six years he has worked together with a lea... |
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School to be Guarded by a Robot |
| ...The world's first robot to guard children was developed in South Korea. Scientists dubbed the robot OFRO, and it's main goal is to protect children in Seoul's middle school. Placing a robot in the school is a test that the developers are going to make before launching the robot into the market.
According to the developers the robot could be useful in alerting staff in case outsiders intend to seduce students. Chief Exe... |
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Robots Assist in Rescuing Disaster Victims |
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Urban search and rescue robots are tested at a special 'Disaster City' training facility according to specific disaster scenarios. The robots will help rescue people in collapsed buildings and train wrecks.
Scientists will test robot performance applying actual training scenarios for emergency responders. Test results are required for improving and developing new usage guides that allow to match specific kinds of robot... |
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Crime Story Writer - a Cruel Killer? |
 ...A Polish writer has been accused of a murder - he wrote a crime story, having precisely described the facts of a real-life murder.
According to investigators, travel writer, journalist and author Krystian Bala, aged 33, sent them his bestseller novel Amok that provided a detailed murder account in an attempt to draw attention to it. It raised strong suspicion of the police as the writer's account turned out to be amaz... |
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Scientist Predicts Humans Will Marry Robots |
 ...British scientist was awarded a PhD by the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, for his work claiming that marriage between robots and human will become common in the near future.
David Levy, an artificial intelligence scientist wrote a thesis Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners where he says that robots can become even more suitable partners for humans. In his work he explains that changing views on... |
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The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away |
 ...a priceless impact on this branch of chemistry: his methodology has become a basis both for academic research and for industrial development.
The 2007 literature Nobel Prize was given to the English writer Doris Lessing, for "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".
There is not much to say about the work of Doris Lessing, exc... |
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Programmers Created Writer-Robot |
 ...leased in January 2008 in Russia. A new novel called "True love" was developed by Russian programmers and philologists with the help of a new software. The author of the novel will be written as PC Writer 2008.
The computer program creates a bestseller as fast as possible and you only need to develop the plot, language style, time and place of the story. The "True love" had taken the plot of "Anna Karenina" novel wr... |
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"LOST" Finds a New Beginning |
 ...fter eight months of waiting, expectations and theories on the possible outcome of the game. Despite the endless joy of the "Lost" fans there is still one thing to make the joy not that endless - the writers' strike, which made the fourth season of "Lost" twice shorter than it was supposed to be, and now it is only 8 episodes long.
The fourth season had an important initial role to start the 48-episode advance to the cli... |
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New Powerful Weapon from Pentagon's DARPA Was Inspired by a Novel |
 ...rthur C. Clarke brought fame to a new type of weapon. Today this weapon is being developed by Pentagon's DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency). The weapon that will most probably turn the writer's dangerous ideas into reality is entitled Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM).
One of the key parts of the novel, written in 1955, focuses on the confrontation between a lunar fortress and 3 spacecraft... |
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Spacecraft Observes Powerful Electrical Storm on Saturn |
 ... and the Italian Space Agency. JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which is a division of Caltech, administers the Cassini mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. As center for robotic exploration of the solar system, JLC was the one to develop and assemble Cassini orbiter as well as the spacecraft's two onboard cameras.
The images of the storm can be viewed at:
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