Googe’s self-driving car has already racked up 1,000 miles. Meanwhile, an unmanned boat monitors water quality in the Gulf.
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This video from New Scientist shows a device that lets the partially paralyzed walk again. Shown is Amanda Boxtel, who lost the use of her legs 18 years ago in a skiing accident. The device, an exoskeleton called “eLegs” from Berkeley Bionics, is expected to cost $100,000 when it hits the market 2011. Smart Planet lists a few competing devices, including the ReWalk from Argo Medical Technologies, the Honda Stride Management belt and bionic legs from Rex Bionics.
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These are the new modern marvels. The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) was held in Chicago this September, where it’s held every two years. We went, we saw, we were awed. What did it teach us? That more and more manufacturing jobs will be done by robots, and that very few people will be required to help. This show is definitely all about high tech: Lasers that engrave detailed images into any surfaces. They can be as large as eight feet across, or so small you need a microscope to watch the work in progress. Other laser equipment can fuse small pieces together in configurations that cannot be molded or manufactured in any other way. In short they can make […]
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“Titan Online,” is a free game still in beta testing in North America, but fully available in Asia. It is a beautifully animated combination of martial arts and robots, based on the Korean best-selling novel “Mo Siang.”
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