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Slime Mold Mimics Canadian Highway Network in Experiment (March 26, 2012): Dr.

French Researchers Developing Thermal Cloaking Technology (March 26, 2012): French researchers are taking concepts used in invisibility cloaking and applying them to heat shielding.

New Facial Recognition Software Searches Through 36 Million Faces Per Second (March 23, 2012): The advanced technology used in upcoming surveillance systems will make it increasingly difficult for humans to stay hidden if they go anywhere in public.

Simulation: A Robotic Car Intersection of the Future (March 22, 2012): Here is a simulation of a intersection that is perhaps not too far off in our future full of robot driven vehicles.

Georgia Tech Researchers Studying Sandfish Lizards for Search and Rescue Robot Ideas (March 22, 2012): Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have been studying sandfish lizards for the past three years.

MIT Researchers Developing Camera That Sees Around Corners (March 21, 2012): MIT Media Lab researchers are developing a camera that can see round corners.

Viral Video: Dutch Engineer Appears to Fly by Flapping His Motor Powered Human Birdwings (March 20, 2012): Jarno Smeets has been working on his Human Birdwings for several months.

Cyborg Snails: Scientists Implant Biofuel Cell in Living Snail (March 20, 2012): Researchers led by Evgeny Katz, Professor of Colloid Science at Clarkson University, have implanted a biofuel cell in a living snail.

MIT Developing System That Lets Aircraft Carrier Crews Guide Robot Planes With Hand Gestures (March 17, 2012): MIT researchers are developing technology that would enable aircraft-carrier crews to guide autonomous planes using ordinary hand gestures.

Bipedal Robot Remains Upright Even When Whacked by Shoe on a Stick (March 16, 2012): Researchers at The Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) at Virginia Tech have created a bipedal robot that is able to stay upright despite being repeatedly hit with a shoe on a stick.

Scientists Create RoboSquirrel to Test Rattlesnake-Squirrel Interactions (March 14, 2012): Researchers at San Diego State University and the University of California-Davis have been studying interactions between Northern Pacific rattlesnakes and California ground squirrels.

Japanese Researcher Makes Soft Deformable Amoeboid Robot Inspired by Slime Mold (March 13, 2012): This yellow blob-like robot was inspired by Physarum polycephalum, a type of slime mold.

3D Printer Breaks Printing Records. Prints Five Meters Per Second With Nano Precision (March 13, 2012): Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) have broken printing speed records using a two-photon litography technique.

Microsoft Creates Wearable Projector That Can Project Interactive Multitouch Interfaces on Any Surface (March 12, 2012): Wearable Multitouch Interaction is a projection system that projects interactive multitouch applications on everyday surfaces.

Microsoft Introduces New Technology for Capturing a 3D Animated Version of Your Face (March 11, 2012): Microsoft introduced its new technology for capturing 3-D animated human faces at TechFest 2012.

Video: New Designs for Nuclear Reactors (March 10, 2012): Here is a video from the Wall Street Journal which shows some new designs for nuclear reactors.

Dextre Robot to Use Wire Cutter Tool on NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (March 8, 2012): NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) began operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot on March 7.

Electrical Engineers are Building a Forest of Nanotrees (March 8, 2012): University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanotrees, or nanowire trees.

Cheetah Robot Sets Land Speed Record for Legged Robots (March 5, 2012): DARPA's fast land robot called Cheetah has set a new land speed record for legged robots.

Russian Mogul Plans to Transplant Live Human Brains Into Robots Within 10 Years (March 2, 2012): Russian media mogul Dmitry Itskov announced at the Global Future 2045 International Congress that he is launching a project, called Avatar, that involves implanting live human brains into robots.

Scientists Get Real Fish to Follow Robotic Fish (February 29, 2012): Scientists at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University have succeeded in getting real fish to follow a robotic fish.

Video: 7th All Japan Robot American Football Tournament (February 29, 2012): This is a video of the 7th All Japan Robot American Football Tournament.

MicroChips Unveils Successful Drug Delivery Test With Implantable Device (February 17, 2012): MicroChips, a developer of implantable drug delivery devices and biosensors, has been developing an implantable device for delivering drugs.

Robotic Arm Throws Darts, Shoot Baskets Using Universal Jamming Gripper (February 16, 2012): The robotic gripper was a novel version of a robotic hand made from a rubber bag filled with coffee grounds.

Kissnger Robots Transfer Kisses Over the Internet (February 14, 2012): These little pig shaped robots, named Kissenger, were designed to transfer kisses over the Internet.