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[youtube 9psNh-dJTDU] Kinect House Maids Meet SmartPal VII , a kind of interim stage before truly automated robot and butler bots start cleaning up your household mess for you--SmartPal's brains are actually you. The robot from Yashkawa Electric is designed to be controlled via a gesture and motion-tracking interface powered through a Microsoft Kinect system

From Coca-Cola to Lego, companies are banking on the "Me Selling Proposition" to revitalize their brands.

Social-media advertising start-up Adaptly is less than two years old and is growing at lightning speed. Its founder thinks it's ripe time to add a social mission.

CERN today kicked off the High Luminosity LHC study with a workshop bringing together scientists and engineers from some 14 European institutions, supported through the European Commission’s seventh Framework programme (FP7), along with others from Japan and the USA. The goal is to prepare the ground for an LHC luminosity upgrade scheduled for around 2020.

There’s a fundamental difference between the rebels of the past and today: Generation Y are born entrepreneurs. Every generation rebels against their parents. When parents approve, their offspring disapproves.

Rachel Sussman, Photographer .boxxy {display:inline-block;width:280px;border:none;margin:6px;vertical-align:top;} Photo by Jeff Elkins Rachel Sussman lives in the past.

How a round-trip, 12,000-mile journey revived a clothing line. img.thiswrapper {margin-bottom:10px;} This fall, Barneys New York and J.Crew began selling a new women's fashion line called Edith A. Miller--and in doing so gave new life to a forgotten, 91-year-old Pennsylvania maker of white undershirts

The Japanese government is searching for new ways to clean up the mess created by the reactor meltdowns earlier this year at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant . As lawmakers and officials study new energy policy options , which they plan to present by next spring, a company called Cyberdyne, Inc. is offering to help with the more immediate concern of removing radioactive debris in and around the reactors with the help of a robotic exoskeleton.

By combining three layers of detection into one new device, a team of researchers from Japan has proposed a new way to monitor radiation levels at power plant accident sites. The device would be more economical that using different devices to measure different types of radiation, and could limit the exposure times of clean-up workers by taking three measurements simultaneously. Radioactive decay produces three flavors of emissions: alpha, beta, and gamma.

After being tossed about and damaged by the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, Japan's drilling ship the Chikyu has been given an especially fitting assignment: to drill into the fault zone and take temperature measurements near the epicentre of the magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake that caused the tsunami. It will be the first time that researchers have drilled into an underwater fault soon after a quake. The aim of the exercise is to solve a decades-old mystery about the part that friction plays in such an event

After being tossed about and damaged by the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, Japan's drilling ship the Chikyu has been given an especially fitting assignment: to drill into the fault zone and take temperature measurements near the epicentre of the magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake that caused the tsunami. It will be the first time that researchers have drilled into an underwater fault soon after a quake.

Robot Fly Trap A professor at the University of Maine has made a robot version of a plant that in some ways is a robot all by itself...the Venus Fly Trap. The diminutive fly-grabber is partly made of a nanomaterial called ionic polymeric metal composite, which acts to replicate the tiny sensitive hairs inside a real trap that send a signal to the closing mechanism when stimulated by a fly landing inside--in this case the nanomaterial, when flexed, sends a tiny electrical signal through an amplifier to the two "leaves" of the trap, made out of the same material. When the bigger signal hits the leaves, they flex in reaction...and trap the fly.

TOKYO, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Japan will likely need more than30 years to dismantle the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear [More]

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