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Four times a year, San Diego, California students showcase their electronic and robotics projects.

UK MICROMOUSE 2009

Event includes: Maze Solving, Wall Following, Sumo, Time Trials, Drag Race for Senior, Junior and Schools.

ROBOtic'08 will include competitions for:

Maze Solvers: follow UK Micromouse rules
Wall followers: follow Wall Follower rules
All-comers Drag Race
mini-SUMO knockout (dependent on number of competitors)

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Famous ABE AUV Lost at Sea

The ABE (Autonomous Benthic Explorer) has used its on-board acoustic transponders and five thrusters to scan the seafloor for over 15 years - locating, mapping, and photographing hydrothermal vents, volcanoes, and other features of the great deep. Marked with "NCC1701" due to its resemblance to Captain Kirk's ship, ABE has performed more than 200 missions collecting valuable data for researchers worldwide. But something went wrong last Friday on an expedition off the coast of Chile and ABE just stopped - nothing was ever heard again. No word yet on whether ABE can be located or recovered.

Hawking on Manned vs Robotic Space Missions

Steven Hawking chimes in on the debate about whether to spend valuable resources sending humans on planetary exploration missions, or to use robots. After all, it's a lot cheaper to send a machine that doesn't need oxygen, isn't sensitive to radiation, and doesn't need to be returned to their family at the end of the mission. But there are some legitimate scientific reasons to send humans including real-time tweaking of the chemistry experiments looking for life, and to initiate unplanned tests based on unexpected observation. Also, the tax-paying public gets more emotionally invested in human missions and would possibly be more willing to continue funding. The ultimate answer is likely a mixture of the two, but exactly what that mixture will be is still being hotly debated.

Popular Science Opens 137 Year Archive

Popular Science and Google have partnered to scan and published 137 years of magazines full of inventions, interviews, and science news from around the globe. Oh, and don't forget those cool ads!. I'm not sure the search feature is 100% yet but I did find a few older articles that might be of interest to robotics enthusiast:

Sept 85 - Robot Sentries Patrol Prisons and Factories
Sept 62 - Teachable Robot Can Remember 200 Commands
June 83 - Computerized Personal Robots

Robots: Swarming Satellites

The latest episode of the Robots podcast interviews Dr. Alvar Saenz-Otero from MIT on the SPHERES project. SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites) are basketball-sized satellites able to fly in and maintain formation at nanometer precision. In the second part of this episode we continue our quest for a good definition of a robot by looking at a well-known definition dating back to 1979. Read on or tune in!

Black Eyed Peas vs Giant Dancing Robots

The Black Eyed Peas have released a new mash-up video for their songs, "Imma be" and "Rock that Body" featuring an assortment of robots; friendly robots, evil robots, big robots, small robots. You also get to see a robot junk yard, teleporting band members, a hover car, futuristic dance guns, Taboo missing the bottom half of his body and Fergie sporting futuristic silver Louboutin heels and some sort of sexy cyborg leotard. For more on the story behind the video, see the Imma Be Wikipedia article.

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Decision-makers betrayed by their wide eyes

Pupil dilation may be evidence of decision-making, Olivia Carter, a neuroscientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia, has found. That might make for a low-tech way of reaching out to people who cannot communicate due to brain damage or paralysis: responses to yes/no or multiple-choice questions could be inferred from pupil dilation.

(Adam Hart-Davis/SPL) (Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527504.000-decisionmakers-betrayed-by-their-wide-eyes.html)

The Secret Lives Of Objects: StickyBits Turn Barcodes Into Personal Message Boards

Stickybits, a new iPhone and Android app that lets you scan any barcode and attach a geo-tagged message to that physical object, has been launched by Stickybits. The barcode in a greeting card, for instance, could trigger a video message from the sender. One on a box of medical supplies could inventory what is inside. A business card with a code on it could link to a resume or LinkedIn profile. The app lets you follow people and see their object stream, or get notified whenever one of your objects is scanned, moved, or new bits are attached to them. Stickybits is similar to science-fiction author Bruce Sterling's concept of "Spimes." (Source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/08/stickybits-barcodes-message-boards/)

Designer nano luggage to carry drugs to diseased cells

Particles derived from the Cowpea mosaic virus that can carry anti-cancer agents to cancer cells have been developed by researchers at Norwich BioScience Institutes. (Source: http://www.physorg.com/news187386357.html)

Need a translation? Google awaits your call

Google Translate can now "listen" to speech and provide translations in a computerized voice for English, Mandarin and Japanese on phones that run Google's Android operating system. It can also translate text to and from more than 50 languages. (Source: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google-translate10-2010mar10,0,3347088.story)

Exclusive: Colorado Doctors Skirt FDA Jurisdiction to Provide Stem Cell Therapies

Regenerative Sciences in Broomfield, Colorado provides its patients with the Regenexx procedure, an adult stem cell transplant that uses your own cells (autologous) to treat joint injuries and bone damage. Human stem cell therapies like this one aren't approved by the FDA. (Source: http://singularityhub.com/2010/03/09/colorado-doctors-skirt-fda-jurisdiction-to-provide-human-stem-cell-therapies-video/)

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