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Your Future with Robots (February 2008)
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Cover; Your Future with Robots; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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A Robot in Every Home; Your Future with Robots; by Bill Gates; 8 Page(s)
The leader of the PC revolution predicts that the next hot field will be robotics
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Rise of the Robots; Your Future with Robots; by Hans Moravec; 8 Page(s)
By 2050 robot brains based on compu_ters that execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start rivaling human intelligence
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The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine; Your Future with Robots; by Ray Kurzweil; 6 Page(s)
The accelerating pace of technological progress means that our intelligent reations will soon eclipse usand that their reations will eventually eclipse them
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Robots vs. Humans: Who Should Explore Space?; Your Future with Robots; by Francis Slakey and Paul D. Spudis; 8 Page(s)
Unmanned spacecraft are exploring the solar system more cheaply and effectively than astronauts are. Astronaut explorers can perform science in space that robots cannot
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An Army of Small Robots; Your Future with Robots; by Robert Grabowski, Luis E. Navarro-Serment and Pradeep K. Khosla; 6 Page(s)
For robot designers these days, small is beautiful
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Swarm Smarts; Your Future with Robots; by Eric Bonabeau and Guy Theraulaz; 8 Page(s)
"Using ants and other social insects as models, computer scientists have created software agents that cooperate to solve complex problems, such as the rerouting of
traffic in a busy telecom network
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Go Forth and Replicate; Your Future with Robots; by Moshe Sipper and James A. Reggia; 10 Page(s)
Birds do it, bees do it, but could machines do it? Computer simulations suggest that the answer is yes
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Ballbots; Your Future with Robots; by Ralph Hollis; 6 Page(s)
A new mode of locomotion will enable mobile robots to stand tall and move gracefully through busy everyday environments
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Artificial Muscles; Your Future with Robots; by Steven Ashley; 8 Page(s)
Novel motion-producing devicesactuators, motors, generatorsbased on polymers that change shape when stimulated electrically are reaching commercialization
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Controlling Robots with the Mind; Your Future with Robots; by Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin; 8 Page(s)
People with nerve or limb injuries may one day be able to command wheelchairs, prosthetics, and even paralyzed arms and legs by "thinking them through" the motions
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Innovations from a Robot Rally; Your Future with Robots; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 9 Page(s)
The Grand Challenge competition spurred advances in laser sensing, computer vision and autonomous navigationnot to mention a thrilling race for the $2-million prize
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