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While the thought of smart robotic insects may seem frightening, this is not Steven Spielberg’s “AI.” Wood wants these robots to able to perform tasks on their own, perhaps delivering information from one point to another. Moreover, the MAVs’ small size limits the processing power that the devices can carry...

Author: By Anupriya Singhal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Your Grandma’s Robot | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...then only in bedrooms. But I'll give Lulu-Louise a tragic-happy ending. At the climax of the 1930 Prix de beaut?, she is a movie star sitting in a screening room about to watch the rushes of her big song. (It's the sad, teasing "Je n'ai qu'un Amour c'est Toi," and, in another 100th birthday present, is covered on the new CD by World Musette, a Paris band fronted by the cartoonist Robert Crumb.) Her jealous lover creeps into the projection booth and, from there, shoots her dead. Brooks' face goes lifeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lulu-Louise at 100 | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...luck and looking to fight off the onslaught of the advancing freak show.” In the midst of this rivalry, one of the circus’s star acrobats develops a verboten love for one of the freaks, a failed Japanese Samurai-cum-sword-swallower fittingly named Ai Swallows. “The Ancient Tent Commandments forbid any mixing of the big-tops and freaks,” said Warland L. “Trey” Kollmer ’07, one of the script’s co-writers. “That?...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding To Riff on ‘Tent Commandments’ | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...competition has been good for the Queensland newcomer, however, prompting it to abandon its earlier catch-all approach in favor of a tighter focus on key movements in regional art. Regulars on the Asian art circuit, such as Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor and controversial Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei, have signed up to participate this year. The show also coincides with the opening of the new Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. OGAKI: Japan has long been a pioneer in media art (the name given to work created with new, mostly digital, technologies), but the country has tended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts And Minds | 9/16/2006 | See Source »

...Hoping to increase the benefits and accessibility of pet therapy, researchers from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology's Robotic Life Group looked to the animatronic teddy bear that keeps Haley Joel Osment's robot-boy company in the movie AI. The researchers have been working since 2005 to engineer an interactive health care teddy bear, with advice from Hollywood's Stan Winston Studio, the engineers behind AI's "Teddy," according to MIT student researcher Dan Stiehl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sci-Fi Today, Sci-Fact Tomorrow | 8/25/2006 | See Source »

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