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Here’s your weekly roundup of exciting medical news.
Paralyzed people control robotic arms directly with brain activity
A new study in Nature... Read More »
Researchers at MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new automated process to get a glimpse at the inner workings of brain cells... Read More »
There is often considerable overlap between the needs of companies that create military systems and those that focus on commercial or “civilian”... Read More »
Textron Defense Systems, an operating unit of Textron Inc.’s Textron Systems, and Hydronalix announced today that the organizations have teamed to develop small ... Read More »
Raytheon Company has been awarded an 18-month, $1.8 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop next-generation Gallium... Read More »
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies have advanced tremendously thanks to their successful development and use in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. These machines, ... Read More »
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Alvin SchaefferApparently some man was arrested today with drone evidence too in North Dakota.
Apr 10, 2012
Anonymous Interesting that these sorts of decisions are being made under the radar. A webinar today, drones in the streets years from now.
Apr 10, 2012
One of the things about new technologies is that although they may be difficult for an older generation to understand and use properly, those who’ve grown... Read More »
Here's this week's high-tech trends that either made headlines or went under the radar!
Facebook countersuit seizes the Yahoo gauntlet and backhands the... Read More »
A new project is brewing between GE Global Research, DARPA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Developing new military technology is a pricey exercise, but ... Read More »
Navy unmanned aircraft will be able to distinguish small pirate boats from other vessels when an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-funded sensor starts airborne tests... Read More »
Google’s work on the first marketable self-driving car continued this week with a bold new experiment -- Google’s self-driving Prius piloted a... Read More »
From the beginning of science fiction, robots have often been a central plot point, striving to destroy us. But, seeing how we treated these machines as both slaves... Read More »
Robot squirrels from UC Davis are being sent near San Jose to continue a research project on the interaction between squirrels and rattlesnakes. Robot squirrels in... Read More »
Computer scientist Hava Siegelmann of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an expert in neural networks, has taken mathematical genius Alan Turing’s... Read More »
Sooner than later, robots may have the ability to 'feel.' Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)... Read More »
Tune into the trends that are shaping the high-tech industry this week!
Computer identifies liars at a much higher rate than experienced interrogators... Read More »
At the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML in Dortmund, Germany, researchers are working to harness swarm intelligence as a means of improving... Read More »
This week's high-tech trends to watch ...
Nokia's tattoo that buzzes your arm to signal a call or text
Nokia is bringing tattoos into the... Read More »
An authentic representative sample of potential battlefields in microcosm -- that’s the method of an extensive project at the Naval Research Lab. Advancing the... Read More »
Researchers at universities, including Virginia Tech and the University of Texas at Dallas, are currently working on a 'Robojelly' Project funded by the US... Read More »