Pleo looks dinosaur!

This is not in my wish list for ‘podmas, but I find Pleo quite cute. Do they reproduce?
I’ll wait for something more evolved, say an hybrid between a Real Doll, a Nabaztag and an Asimo, with a MacBook Pro inside. Maybe with some Leopard clothing. How the battery problem will be managed is a good [...]

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Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices

This is probably the cutest experimental setting I read about the last few months (I do know that I have a particular understanding of what cute is).Robots, disguised as cockroaches by simple pheromone coating, to make them look like cockroaches, that is at the chemotactility space. Then introduced in a group, to influence dynamically the [...]

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The Tables serie: Table 1-Highly Integrated Molecular Diagnostic Platforms

This is the 1st table of a serie of 3 on automated platforms in Molecular Diagnostics that will be available exclusively at Coffee And Sci(ence).  You can find it here:
Table 1-Highly Integrated Molecular Diagnostic Platforms 
Back in 2004, when Roche Molecular Diagnostics had introduced the Cobas Ampliprep + Cobas Taqman 48 in Europe, there was not too [...]

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