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Technology Video: The Chief Cook Robot

A humanoid robot learning to cook an omelet by whipping eggs, cutting ham and grating cheese. Through the use of a probabilistic model, the robot progressively learns to generalize the skill to various situations.

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Old Tech How: Making of Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris. The tower has become a global icon of France and is one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Parisian landmark is the tallest structure in Paris and one of the most recognized structures [...]

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Mobile Game: Get FIFA 2008 Game for Your Nokia N-Series Phone for Free

If you are based in Europe and you have a Nokia N-Series mobile phone, and you like play a game especially soccer. Now you have a chance to grab the most popular FIFA 08 mobile gaming for free.

Just go to play.n-gage.com, and then install the N-Gage application on your phone and just download the FIFA [...]

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Strange Constructions: Aquadom - World’s Largest Cylindrical Aquarium

Placed at the lobby of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin, the 25 meters high AquaDom is the largest cylindrical aquarium ever built. Filled with about 900,000 liters of seawater, it contains some 2600 fish of 56 species. The AquaDom was opened in December 2003. It cost about 12.8 million euros.

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Bizarre Robot: Walking Shopping Cart

Robotics are often used in environments which are considered dangerous to humans. Deep sea exploration, nuclear cleanup and volcanism are some of the “higher profile” adverse environments which robots are used. What about other dangerous or hazardous areas?. For example, homeless people live in extremely dangerous environments. Shouldn’t there be automated equipment used by this [...]

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