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- Mapping a room in a snap: Four microphones and a computer algorithm are enough to produce a 3-D model of a simple, convex room
- Doctors in veterinary, human medicine team to give burned horse a second chance
- Is there an invisible tug-of-war behind bad hearts and power outages?
- People attribute minds to robots, corpses that are targets of harm
- Mice in a 'Big Brother' setup develop social structures
- A robot that runs like a cat
| Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:08 PM PDT An algorithm makes it possible to measure the dimensions of a room using just a few microphones and a snap of your fingers. There are many promising applications on the horizon.  |
| Doctors in veterinary, human medicine team to give burned horse a second chance Posted: 17 Jun 2013 11:20 AM PDT The unlikely pairing of an equine veterinarian and a burn surgeon is providing a second chance at a normal life for a horse that was doused in flammable liquid and set on fire late last summer.  |
| Is there an invisible tug-of-war behind bad hearts and power outages? Posted: 17 Jun 2013 09:24 AM PDT Researchers report the first purely physical experimental evidence that an invisible and chaotic tug-of-war known as a chimera state can occur naturally within any process that relies on spontaneous synchronization, including clock pendulums, power grids and heart valves.  |
| People attribute minds to robots, corpses that are targets of harm Posted: 17 Jun 2013 09:24 AM PDT As Descartes famously noted, there's no way to really know that another person has a mind -- every mind we observe is, in a sense, a mind we create. Now, new research suggests that victimization may be one condition that leads us to perceive minds in others, even in entities we don't normally think of as having minds, such as a corpse or a robot.  |
| Mice in a 'Big Brother' setup develop social structures Posted: 17 Jun 2013 08:13 AM PDT New research into mouse social behavior finds signs of leadership and reveals features of "autistic" mouse society.  |
| Posted: 17 Jun 2013 07:46 AM PDT Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, a four-legged "cheetah-cub robot" has the same advantages as its model: it is small, light and fast. Still in its experimental stage, the robot will serve as a platform for research in locomotion and biomechanics.  |
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