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Monday, December 17, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


Woman with quadriplegia feeds herself chocolate using mind-controlled robot arm

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 12:09 AM PST

Reaching out to "high five" someone, grasping and moving objects of different shapes and sizes, feeding herself dark chocolate. For Jan Scheuermann and a team of researchers, accomplishing these seemingly ordinary tasks demonstrated for the first time that a person with longstanding quadriplegia can maneuver a mind-controlled, human-like robot arm in seven dimensions (7D) to consistently perform many of the natural and complex motions of everyday life.

Asteroid Toutatis slowly tumbles by Earth

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 10:12 AM PST

Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a series of radar data images of a three-mile-long (4.8-kilometer) asteroid that made its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 12, 2012.

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