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Video: Rescuing Disaster Victims With Snake Robots Deployed By Dogs | Popular Science

Video: Rescuing Disaster Victims With Snake Robots Deployed By Dogs | Popular Science | Science News | Scoop.it

A new project at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute combines two of my favorite things, dogs and robots, to build an animal-machine rescue system that could conceivably improve a trapped victim’s survival odds after an earthquake or some other disaster. It would work by strapping a snakebot to a trained search-and-rescue dog, Saint Bernard collar-keg-style, and letting the dog loose to find survivors.

Articles about robotics: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics

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The new gesture technology that could kill the touchscreen

The new gesture technology that could kill the touchscreen | Science News | Scoop.it
Qualcomm demos new tech Qualcomm has demoed a new gesture system at its Innovation Qualcomm event in Istanbul. It allows the user to control an inte...
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The world's smallest steam engine measures a few micrometers

The world's smallest steam engine measures a few micrometers | Science News | Scoop.it
What would be a case for the repair shop for a car engine is completely normal for a micro engine. If it sputters, this is caused by the thermal motions of the smallest particles, which interfere with its running.
Aurelia Millers's curator insight, September 17, 2013 4:33 AM

This is what we can say truly an innovation. Decreasing the size of the heat engines and re-assembling it to become a newly formed machine is highly interesting to know. I am imagining how it can save a lot of space in the compartment and how it will lighten more the vehicle.

We successfully decreased the size of the essential parts of a heat engine, such as the working gas and piston, to only a few micrometres and then assembled them to a machine

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2011-12-world-smallest-steam-micrometers.html#jCpWe successfully decreased the size of the essential parts of a heat engine, such as the working gas and piston, to only a few micrometres and then assembled them to a machine

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2011-12-world-smallest-steam-micrometers.html#jCpWe successfully decreased the size of the essential parts of a heat engine, such as the working gas and piston, to only a few micrometres and then assembled them to a machine

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2011-12-world-smallest-steam-micrometers.html#jCpWe successfully decreased the size of the essential parts of a heat engine, such as the working gas and piston, to only a few micrometres and then assembled them to a machine

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2011-12-world-smallest-steam-micrometers.html#jCp