| Annoying ‘I, Robot’ Kid Signs Up For ‘Indiana Jones 4′
This has turned out to be quite the weekend for Shia LaBeouf - the annoying kid from I, Robot - because not only is he the star of the weekend's top movie, but he's about to become the annoying kid from Indiana Jones 4 too. Needless to say that Shia LaBeouf is the obvious choice for the obligatory annoying sidekick role in Indiana Jones 4, since he's basically made a career out of being the annoying sidekick, but Indiana Jones 4 represents LaBeouf's most difficult mission yet - since to become the definitive annoying Indiana Jones sidekick, he'll need to reach inside himself and out-annoy Short Round from Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom. Somehow we think Shia LaBeouf is more than capable. 2007 looks like the year that Shia LaBeouf will become a big star. So far in his career he's only really managed to play sidekick characters who are so completely annoying that you sort of hope they get killed somewhere along the line.
Robot spacecraft in zero-gee pumping shocker
Two unmanned space platforms have autonomously come together 300 miles above the earth, carrying out a "pump fluid transfer" in a milestone for robot sex automated satellite servicing. A Boeing Autonomous Space Transport Robotic Operations (ASTRO) vehicle and a NextSat serviceable-satellite demonstrator were launched together aboard an Atlas rocket on 8 March. Following launch there were software problems which caused difficulties in orienting the machines, but these were overcome by ground engineers and the two spacecraft duly separated. .
Robotic Micro-Drill Used Clinically
This "perfect" drill was developed by Professor Peter Brett from the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Aston University and clinically tested inside the surgical theatre by Dr. David Proops, an Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant Surgeon at University Hospital Birmingham. From Aston University press release: It does not have to be programmed or made to work from a computer operated by a human. It is smart. It just knows where to go and what to do. This has never happened in medicine before... It has been tested on patients needing cochlear implants. The drill is applied to the cochlea, the inner ear hearing organ, is aligned to the correct place and then drills a hole less than a millimetre in diameter to enable the cochlear implant to be inserted. When working with a traditional surgical drill under the microscope the drill tip will naturally perforate the surface through the inner flexible boney tissue interface of the cochlea with the inner membrane and protrude into the space.
13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007) is in an ongoing series of biennial international conferences for top quality research in cognitive science and intelligent systems for educational computing applications. The conference thus provides opportunities for the cross-fertilization of information and ideas from researchers in the many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area, including: artificial intelligence, other areas of computer science, cognitive science, education, learning sciences, educational technology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and the many domain-specific areas for which AIED systems have been designed and built. TOPICS The technical program focuses on research linking theory and technology from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computer science with theory and practice from education and social science.
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