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Stanford’s Stickybot is Climbing Faster, Human Project Coming Soon? (video)
Posted on 10. Sep, 2010 by Aaron Saenz.
Geckos may be good at selling car insurance, but they’re even better at climbing walls. Which is why Stanford’s Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab used the acrobatic reptiles as the model for their vertically climbing robot. The Stickybot can ascend wood paneling, painted metal, even glass using a dry adhesive that only clings in one [...]
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Singularity University To Hold Free Webinar Sept 13
Posted on 09. Sep, 2010 by Keith Kleiner.
On September 13, 2010 Singularity University will be hosting a free webinar showcasing the ambitious projects to improve the world developed by students from its recently completed 2010 Graduate Studies Program. As we reported earlier, the 80 students from this year’s program developed roughly a dozen business proposals aimed at positively impacting more than a [...]
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TV is a Dinosaur, The Internet is a Meteor, Google TV is the Fallout
Posted on 09. Sep, 2010 by Aaron Saenz.
Video killed the radio star. The internet is killing TV as we know it. Why should you have to wait to watch a show just because some executive thinks it belongs in an 8pm time slot? Why settle for a medium that’s not interactive? Why do you have to buy a DVR just to [...]
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iRobot’s Military Swarm of Wifi Bots Flips Into Action
Posted on 09. Sep, 2010 by Aaron Saenz.
The army of the future may rely as much on WiFi as they do on weapons. To that end, iRobot has built the diminutive Ember, a mobile robotic platform that can work in a group to establish a wireless network anywhere. The pocket-sized tank is part of DARPA’s LANdroid program which aims to create a [...]
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Scientists Closer to Reading Words From Your Brain
Posted on 09. Sep, 2010 by Aaron Saenz.
Those unable to speak may one day be able to have their words read directly out of their brains. Researchers at the University of Utah have used electrodes on the brain’s surface to determine which words a patient was saying. As described in the recent publication in the Journal of Neural Engineering, scientists attached two [...]
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- Evolutionary hidden information detection by granulation-based fitness approximation • ArticleApplied Soft Computing, Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2010, Pages 719-729 | Davarynejad, M.; Ahn, C.W.; Vrancken, J.; van den Berg, J.; Coello Coello, C.A. […]
- The Hallmarks of Cancer • Review articleCell, Volume 100, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 57-70 | Hanahan, D.; Weinberg, R.A. […]
- Transcriptome-wide Identification of RNA-Binding Protein and MicroRNA Target Sites by PAR-CLIP • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 129-141 | Hafner, M.; Landthaler, M.; Burger, L.; Khorshid, M.; Hausser, J.; Berninger, P.; Rothballer, A.; Ascano, M.; Jungkamp, A.C.; Munschauer, M.; Ulrich, A.; Wardle, G.S.; Dewell, S.; Zavolan, M.; Tuschl, T. […]
- A Chromatin-Mediated Reversible Drug-Tolerant State in Cancer Cell Subpopulations • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 69-80 | Sharma, S.V.; Lee, D.Y.; Li, B.; Quinlan, M.P.; Takahashi, F.; Maheswaran, S.; McDermott, U.; Azizian, N.; Zou, L.; Fischbach, M.A.; Wong, K.K.; Brandstetter, K.; Wittner, B.; Ramaswamy, S.; Classon, M.; Settleman, J. […]
- Immunity, Inflammation, and Cancer • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 883-899 | Grivennikov, S.I.; Greten, F.R.; Karin, M. […]
- Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors • ArticleCell, Volume 126, Issue 4, August 2006, Pages 663-676 | Takahashi, K.; Yamanaka, S. […]
- The Inflammasomes • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 821-832 | Schroder, K.; Tschopp, J. […]
- Mitochondria Supply Membranes for Autophagosome Biogenesis during Starvation • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 4, May 2010, Pages 656-667 | Hailey, D.W.; Rambold, A.S.; Satpute-Krishnan, P.; Mitra, K.; Sougrat, R.; Kim, P.K.; Lippincott-Schwartz, J. […]
- Pattern Recognition Receptors and Inflammation • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 805-820 | Takeuchi, O.; Akira, S. […]
- Reconstitution of the RIG-I Pathway Reveals a Signaling Role of Unanchored Polyubiquitin Chains in Innate Immunity • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 315-330 | Zeng, W.; Sun, L.; Jiang, X.; Chen, X.; Hou, F.; Adhikari, A.; Xu, M.; Chen, Z.J. […]
