Original news from www.informationweek.com. Science development in robotics is very fast in growth, just like the growth of computer science.
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A Toronto-based researcher has built what he claims is the world’s first fully functional female robot — a lifelike android named Aiko that is capable of recognizing faces, identifying medication, and even buttering toast.
33-year-old researcher Le [...]
Canadian-American physician who obtained his medical degree from Columbia University in 1904 and joined the Rockefeller Institute in 1913. Avery studied a curious phenomenon that had been observed in pneumococci (pneumonia-causing bacteria) with a smooth coat (S) and those with a rough coat (R). It seemed that the R strain lacked an enzyme [...]
PARIS (AFP) — Anti-doping tests used at the Olympics and other major sporting events are too often based on faulty science and statistical methods that can yield erroneous results, a researcher charged Wednesday in a leading scientific journal.
Donald Berry, an expert in biostatistics at the University of Texas, used the case of American cyclist Floyd [...]
Hugh Montgomery, a genetics researcher and senior lecturer at University College London, employed various tactics Wednesday to fascinate a Christmas Lecture audiences mainly comprising children, with the mysteries of how the human body can survive in extreme conditions.
Shortly after the start of the lecture, titled “Back from the Brink–the Science of Survival,” a large bang [...]
Scientists at a California company reported yesterday they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults, a significant advance toward the goal of growing personalized stem cells for patients suffering from various diseases.
Creation of the embryos — grown from cells taken from the company’s chief executive and one [...]
Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (936 - 1013), (Arabic: أبو القاسم بن خلف بن العباس الزهراوي) also known in the West as Abulcasis, was an Andalusian-Arab physician, surgeon, and scientist. He is considered the father of modern surgery, and as Islam’s greatest medieval surgeon, whose comprehensive medical texts, combining Islamic medicine and Greco-Roman teachings, [...]
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