Igor-style human, animal parts assembly on horizon
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Kit-form Lurch servants/monkey butlers for all Topflight Mancunian scientists believe they will soon pioneer an improved technique for splicing together human nerves. This could offer a range of benefits, not least the ability to assemble huge, powerful bodies out of miscellaneous human parts and implanted brains harvested from condemned criminal maniacs.â¦
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Some able-bodied people want to improve their bodies with artificial parts. But their dreams may outpace the capabilities of technology. By Chris Oakes. Part four in a four-part series.
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The future of robotics may involve teams of small, cooperating droids.
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Linux-based robots are tricky to create, but Michael Surran's Robotics class found out it can be done.
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It's the Internet Revolution meets the Industrial Revolution: a new program that lets people design 3-D objects like car parts and door knobs in metal or plastic then order them online.
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Researchers in Spain set about creating a man-made version of the part of the brain that controls movements.
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Researchers working with slices of rat brains come up with a microchip that mimics the part of the brain responsible for creating memories. They hope to create a prosthesis for the human brain within 15 years. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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DNA&#39;s ability to self-assemble into predetermined patterns has been exploited to create synthetic versatile scaffolding that can direct the assembly of miniscule computer circuits.
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Researchers are working on the nose-mouse, and other unorthodox ways of moving a cursor.
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Put off by the idea of wearing jackets made from dead animal skins, a team of Australian researchers attempts to grow a stitchless coat from live cells. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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A submersible robot can harvest timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. By Michael Behar from Wired magazine.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun.
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If the Human Genome Project gave biologists the equivalent of a parts list for a car, then the latest biology mega-project will be like the instructions that show how the parts combine to make an operating fuel injector.
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Plans for new gutter-cleaning robot from iRobot surface on FCC Web site.
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The thread is there, and the loom looks ready.
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In the past couple of years, robots have started to move around and work independently. Just don't expect them to look, walk and talk like C3PO in the Star Wars movies -- rolling and beeping like R2D2 is more like it.
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AI vendor is set to show how it will use humans in virtual worlds to update the capabilities of its software.