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Cargo UGV

Cargo Unmanned Ground Vehicle or Cargo UGV is a military robot in development that would enable a single driver to control several trucks at the same time, reducing...

September 23, 2012

RiSE (Robot)

RiSE is a robot that climbs vertical terrain such as walls, trees and fences, using feet with micro-claws to climb on textured surfaces. It changes posture to conform...

September 23, 2012

BigDog

BigDog is a quadrupedal robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics, in conjunction with Foster-Miller, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station. BigDog project...

September 23, 2012

Nubots

Nubot refers to "nucleic acid robots". Nubots are organic molecular machines at the nanoscale. Scientists say that the DNA structure can provide means to assemble 2D and 3D...

September 23, 2012

Red Deer Cave people

Red Deer Cave people are the youngest known prehistoric population who do not look like modern humans. Fossils dated between 14,500 and 11,500 years old were found in...

September 23, 2012

Multispectral imaging

In Multispectral imaging, the image data is collected at specific frequencies across the electromagnetic spectrum. The wavelengths are separated by filters or by the use of instruments that...

September 23, 2012

Archaionomia

Archaionomia is the name of a legal treatise – a collection of Saxon laws published in Britain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Archaionomia was recently in...

September 23, 2012

Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACT)

Antimalarial chemotherapy has been the primary option in the fight against malaria. However, the burden of this disease is still very heavy partly due to the development of...

September 23, 2012

Web of Things

Web of Things is another project as Google X Lab. It is a vision inspired from the Internet of Things where everyday devices and objects, i.e. objects that...

September 23, 2012

Project Glass

Project Glass is a R&D program by Google to prototype and build augmented reality glasses or an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD). Though such displays for augmented reality...

September 23, 2012

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