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This smart wheelchair has laser vision

(PhysOrg.com) -- Disability, John Spletzer believes, should no longer pose any obstacle to mobility. A blind person may not be able to see or a paraplegic to walk, but each can access the technology available ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Global manhunt pushes limits of social mobilization

(Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers, including computer scientist Manuel Cebrian from the University of California, San Diego, has won a seemingly impossible challenge: tracking down a group ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers to build extreme scale supercomputer

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will provide expertise to a multi-year technology investment program to develop the next generation of extreme scale supercomputers.

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Driving while blind? Maybe, with new high-tech car

(AP) -- Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-fetched notion a reality.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 5

When it comes to security, think 'natural'

Security systems could be more effective if officials looked at how organisms deal with threats in the natural world, University of Arizona researchers suggest in the May 20 edition of the journal Nature.

Biology / Other

created May 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stanford's robotic Audi to brave Pikes Peak without a driver (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the Pikes Peak race of Colorado Springs began in 1916, drivers ascended the dusty switchbacks hoping their car would not overheat or fall apart before reaching the 14,000-foot summit. This September, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists discover important step for making light crystals (w/Videos)

Ohio State University researchers have developed a new strategy to overcome one of the major obstacles to a grand challenge in physics.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 3

Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the middle of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) sits a platform of fake grass with tomato plants nestled in terra cotta pots, growing under the light of an ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Robo-forklift keeps humans out of harm's way

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are working on a better way to handle supplies in a war zone: a semi-autonomous forklift that can be directed ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robo-forklift keeps humans out of harm’s way

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are working on a better way to handle supplies in a war zone: a semi-autonomous forklift that can be directed by people ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Alice on Trial, Redux

When Alice revs her engine at the start of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge qualifying rounds on October 27, multitudes of cameras will be pointing at her. But she'll only ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 25, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1


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