Mutating Bots May Save Lives
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Several research teams are developing robots made of smart building blocks that can morph into different forms to perform a broad variety of tasks. The bots are to be used in space missions and in search-and-rescue efforts. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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In the battle against cancer, saving two patients out of 17 may seem modest enough. But researchers see hope that using genetically altered immune cells to attack tumors -- as was done in this study -- may hold the key to eventually defeating various cancers.
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Rise of the Machinesâ¢ scuttles a little closer
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Ifbot, the resident robot at a Japanese  nursing home, can converse, sing, express emotions and give  trivia quizzes to seniors to help with their mental agility.  Yet the pale-green gizmo has spent much of the past two years  languishing in a corner alone.
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A technique originally designed to analyse DNA sequences is the latest weapon in the war against spam. An algorithm named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits) can catch nearly 97 per cent of spam.
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Robots, a.k.a. spiders or Web crawlers are used to feed data to a user, such as Google. Most robots are useful, but some, such as EmailSiphon and Cherry Picker are spambots. Here, you'll learn what robots do and how to gain control over them. By Lee Underwood. 0824
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CALGARY - Canada&#39;s heart surgeons got a peek on Monday at robots that could make for less bloody operations and faster recoveries in the future.
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Synthetic biology turns a bacteriophage into an E. coli eliminator.
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DARPA gives new meaning to the term 'bot net' DARPA*, the occasionally eccentric American death-tech hothouse, has come up with a scheme to develop "LANdroids", small crawling radio-relay robots the size of a deck of cards.â¦
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New security software supplements antivirus protection by scanning systems for &#39;bot&#39; malware that can take over unprotected PCs.
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RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled 'bots for the police and the Pentagon.
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Humans will upgrade their nervous systems with technology, a professor predicts--and then they'll be open to computer viruses.
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It may eat flies and stink to high heaven, but if this robot works, it will be an important step towards making robots fully autonomous.
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Forget genetic engineering. The new idea is synthetic biology, an effort to rewire the genetic circuitry of living organisms.
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A University of Connecticut scientist may have discovered a new and efficient way to clone
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Let's not get carried away in our speculation about what robots will and won't do to sex. In Sex Drive Daily.
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The technology for human facial transplants exists, but ethicists are worried about using it.