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- Human robot getting closer: iCub robot must learn from its experiences
- Professor develops 'brain' for robots
- Mucus useful in treating IBD, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
- Setting blurred images in motion improves perception
- Beautiful brushstrokes drawn from data
- Colonizing songbirds lost sense of syntax
- 'Jekyll-and-Hyde' protein offers a new route to cancer drugs
| Human robot getting closer: iCub robot must learn from its experiences Posted: 27 Sep 2013 06:45 AM PDT A robot that feels, sees and, in particular, thinks and learns like us. It still seems like science fiction, but new research hints that it could happen. Scientists are working to implement the cognitive process of the human brain in robots. A new humanoid will blur the boundaries between robot and human. |
| Professor develops 'brain' for robots Posted: 26 Sep 2013 05:11 PM PDT Scientists have developed a new feedback system to remotely control mobile robots. This research will allow robots to operate with minimal supervision and could eventually lead to a robot that can learn or even become autonomous. |
| Mucus useful in treating IBD, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease Posted: 26 Sep 2013 11:31 AM PDT Researchers foresee a day when mucus could be manufactured and given to sick people to help them fight inflammation and increase immunity. For the first time ever, they report that mucus in the large intestine provides a valuable anti-inflammatory and self-regulating immune function. |
| Setting blurred images in motion improves perception Posted: 26 Sep 2013 11:29 AM PDT Blurred images that are unidentifiable as still pictures become understandable once the images are set in motion. That's because of a phenomenon called "optic flow," which may be especially relevant as a source of visual information in people with low vision. |
| Beautiful brushstrokes drawn from data Posted: 26 Sep 2013 09:34 AM PDT A good painter uses simple strokes of a brush to bring texture, contrast and depth to a blank canvas. In comparison, computer programs can have difficulty reproducing the complex and varied forms of brushstrokes, and often require painstaking effort to mimic a brief sweep of paint. A new program creates the look and texture of actual brushstrokes. |
| Colonizing songbirds lost sense of syntax Posted: 26 Sep 2013 09:34 AM PDT As one species of European songbird island-hopped to colonize mid-Atlantic archipelagoes over the course of a half million years, their songs lost their sense of syntax. |
| 'Jekyll-and-Hyde' protein offers a new route to cancer drugs Posted: 26 Sep 2013 09:34 AM PDT The mood changes of a 'Jekyll-and-Hyde' protein, which sometimes boosts tumour cell growth and at other times suppresses it, have been explained in a new study. |
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