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A. Three is good. This was proved in a secret experiment conducted by the Democratic National Committee--and financed with soft money, since it was considered a party-building activity. As more people entered the room, the Vice President stiffened at a steady pace that one researcher compared to rigor...
In the case of Flight 261, investigators have recovered a wealth of material at the crash site that may provide some vital clues to what happened. The plane's two black boxes--the flight-data recorder and cockpit voice recorder--have been found. And a robotic device located at least...
A robot deployed in Antarctica to look for meteorites has returned in triumph. Nomad, a joint project sponsored by the Robotic Institute of Carnegie-Mellon and NASA's Space Telerobotics Program (bet you didn't know they had one), set out on its own to look for space rocks stuck...
Nomad is unquestionably the most successful attempt at robotic exploration ever attempted. Looking something like a driverless dune buggy, Nomad weighs 1,200 pounds and measures 2.4 meters square. It's built around a chassis that mechanically changes shape to conform to the demands of the landscape, and each of...
DUST BUSTER Why hire a housekeeper when technology can do the dirty work for you? Dyson's DC06 robotic vacuum cleaner, unveiled last week and due out in May, uses three onboard computers and 50 sensors to navigate its way around your plants, pets and furniture--all without tumbling down...