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Computers Can Soon Transform 2D Images Into 3D

Creating 3D animations from regular 2D images has long been thought impossible by researchers since three decades ago. Describing the geometry of objects to a computer was no easy task back then. Even research computers are so much slower than our current home computers. But the time is different now. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has [...]

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Honda Develops Mind-Controlled Robot Interface

World-renowned Japanese automaker Honda has announced their recent achievement in developing a thought-controlled interface for robots. Using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine, Honda succeeded in making a robotic hand mimic the movements of a demonstrator’s hand, by reading the brain patterns from the MRI machine. The robotic hand was able to accurately make a fist, [...]

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Robot Does World’s First Unassisted Heart Surgery

For the very first time, a robot surgeon has managed to conduct a heart surgery without any human assistance. The 50-minute surgery was performed on a 34-years-old patient that was suffering from atrial fibrillation (heart flutters). While the operation was done in Milan, Italy, the creator of the robot surgeon, Dr. Carlo Pappone, was monitoring the [...]

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The Boozers’ Dream Bot

Boy do I love this little bot. It’s capable of storing up to six 350ml beer cans in its little refrigerator compartment. And with a press of a button, the robot opens a can, tilts the glass, and pours you a nice cool glass of beer, with a perfect head every single time! The sad news [...]

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Sony pulls the plug on QRIO and AIBO?

It was only yesterday that PC Magazine UK has posted a story on how robo-pets can be as good as real pets. And for most of us, the first robo-pet that comes to our mind is the AIBO. But yet today, news is everywhere that Sony might just be ceasing production for AIBO and the [...]

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