Robots Can Perform Brain Surgery on Flies
At Stanford, brain surgery is a task that can now be delegated to the robots—at least when it comes to fruit fly research.
At Stanford, brain surgery is a task that can now be delegated to the robots—at least when it comes to fruit fly research.
Erik Sorto can drink beer just by thinking about it.
On the TV show Battlestar Galactica, the humans experience conflicting feelings when dealing with the humanoid Cylons. While some find it easy to torture the robots, even though they resemble humans, many cringe at the thought of terrorizing the Cylons. I
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The field of robotics, while taking over factories and a lot of other manual labor, is still experimental in many areas. In a branch of biorobotics, researchers are working on machines that imitate the movements of animals in order to both improve the way
What do we want robots to do for us? The field of robotics is making great leaps in robot abilities, but these abilities come one at a time. We won't have Rosie from The Jetsons until the various specific tasks are combined into one machine. When that hap