22/12/2004

More Stormy Weather on Titan

Titan, it turns out, may be a very stormy place. In 2001, a group of astronomers led by Henry Roe, now a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology, discovered methane clouds near the south pole of Saturn's ...

As robots learn to imitate

Can robots learn to communicate by studying and imitating humans' gestures? That's what MIRROR's researchers aimed to find out by studying how infants and monkeys learn complex acts such as grasping and transferring it to ...

New graphic displays for the blind

The micro robotic group at the caesar research center has recently been awarded one of three research prizes by the ONCE foundation in Madrid. The ONCE foundation is dedicated to the social integration of the handicapped ...

World's smallest joystick for handheld products

Varatouch, the leading designer of innovative input devices for consumer electronics products, announces the availability of a reference design kit for rapid development of analog joysticks for handheld devices. This design ...

A Breeze from the Stars

by Dr. Tony Phillips Every year in early December, something happens that can throw your horoscope out of whack. The sun enters Ophiuchus, the little-known 13th house of the zodiac. You've probably heard of Capricorn, ...

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