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Robot boat across the Pacific Ocean
Four Wave Glider unmanned boats leave the San Francisco coastline and begin a 300-day cruise on the Pacific Ocean.
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Strange plane shaped clouds
For those who can walk on the roof while the plane is drifting, the drifting cloud is the ideal choice.
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Use a scanner for an autopsy
High-tech scanners can be used to determine the cause of death in order to avoid a post-mortem autopsy of a bereaved family, according to a new study published in the La…
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Read mail, watch news on contact lenses
Professor Babak Parviz and colleagues at the University of Washington are working to develop a contact lens that can connect to the internet, receive and display informa…
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Project of developing intelligent transport vehicles
Scientists working at 17 universities, companies and organizations across Europe have participated in the Development of Intelligent Transport Vehicles (HAVEit) - cars w…
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South Korea uses robots to manage prisoners
Korean scientists have successfully built robots worth 1 billion won ($ 850,000) to replace jailers in the future.
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Robot insects explore the environment
Researchers at Michigan Tech University are using insects to explore potentially dangerous environments before getting people there.
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Woven fabric from ... dog fur
Researchers from York University have found the first evidence that people in the Pacific coast of North America used to use dog fur to weave cloth.
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Unique electric car one wheel
Ryno is a one-size-fits-all-wheel-drive electric vehicle, designed to travel, be safe and extremely easy to handle, fast and flexible.
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Launched the world's first 'virtual' newspaper
United Daily News, Taiwan's largest media conglomerate, has teamed up with Aurasma, a leading virtual reality research organization, to launch the world's first…
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Snake machine nosing in nuclear power plant
Snake-shaped robots can perform difficult or dangerous tasks for humans such as checking radioactive concentrations in nuclear reactors or entering narrow spaces to save…
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Use cigarette butts to make T-shirts
A group of Japanese students created a way to transform cigarette butts into cloth to make T-shirts.
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Students make electric cars
Demonstrating electric car production is not just in large countries with huge industries, a group of students and a professor at Makarere University in Uganda build an…
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Fabrication of the device takes the nano tablet directly to the tumor
Scientists working at Oxford University and the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin Madison, USA have teamed up t…
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Electric cars 1 molecule
This nano-sized car is a step forward in creating advanced machines that can handle tasks like going through veins to destroy cancer cells.