Dance: Learning to Move Under the Sea, on Wheels
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The stage version of âThe Little Mermaidâ presented a challenge for the choreographer. A pair of rolling shoes offered a solution.
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New findings on how people make sounds could lead to better speech recognition and synthesis.
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An exercise paradox: a walk wakes you up, but hard training will run you down.
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The work of Prof. Naomi Ehrich Leonard at Princeton University shatters barriers, interweaving control theory, fluid mechanics, robotics, and biology.
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NEW YORK  - For some people with Parkinson's disease, a personalized home program of exercises and instructions appears to help prevent them from falling, UK researchers have shown.
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Eduardo Vilaro is certainly good at one thing; his well-trained dancers are naturally theatrical and able to flesh out their technique with a sweet, unalloyed enthusiasm.
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RunBot, a 9-inch-high machine, can adapt to different terrain, adjusting its gait and posture after a few learning experiences.
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It could be called a mechanical miracle &#151; a robot that walks on water. With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research team led by Carnegie Mellon engineering assistant professor Metin Sitti has built a tiny robot that can walk on water, much like insects known as water skimmers, water skaters, pond skaters or Jesus bugs.
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MIT's Martin Culpepper shows how to build simple machines that move with nanometer precision.
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Feel like a fish out of water? You may not be too far off.
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An untethered, autonomous robot rummaging around a geothermal sinkhole may herald the future of deep ocean -- and deep space -- robotics. By Emmet Cole.
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By Ellen Whyte  THE average eight-year-old is bound to beat the pants off older competition when challenged to the latest computer game, but very few kids at that age know how to surf the Net.
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Gyroscopically balanced scooters have given disabled people a new grasp on mobility.
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In her latest program, Neta Pulvermacher reveals not just a trilogy of dances, but also three sides of the choreographer herself.
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Daphne Koller is pushing the limits of building computer programs that learn efficiently and reason intelligently. Third in a series profiling this year's MacArthur 'genius award' winners. By Kari Lynn Dean.
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The PHPClasses.org website has posted their review of a Packt Publishing book covering PDO - "Learning PHP Data Objects" (by Dennis Poppel).   In Learning PHP Data Objects, the author, Dennis Popel, examines this new system and explains how to begin using PDO in development as a replacement for typical database drivers. The book is an excellent introduction to the data abstraction layer. It also provides essential insight into the inner workings of database interaction with PHP.   The review talks about the contents of the book, what PDO is/how it's used and how well the book hits the mark for its target audience.
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By Millar, Heather  It seems like such a tall order: Proactively plan human activities so that they mesh with the natural environment. Try to approach nature as a system, even though we don't now, and may never, fully understand all of its' complexities.