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'Protonic Storms' Unleashed On DNA In Space
   Should astronauts watch out for the fury of protonic storms?
Liquid Mirror Telescope For Moon Studied By NASA
   Liquid Mirror Telescopes are cool enough - but putting one on the moon?
Insbot Robot Cockroaches Make Friends And Influence... Roaches
   Tiny robots with Dale Carnegie-style programming help scientists learn about animals that exhibit group behaviors.
Robots Making Smaller Robots Making Smaller Robots
   Robotic technologies make possible smaller and smaller manufactured goods - too small for people to make.
'New' Israeli Bionic Hornet Concept Is 70 Years Old
   The Israelis shouldn't bother with making up science-fictional insect-sized robots - let the writers do it!
Insect Lab Beetle Clockwork Sculpture
   Not robots - but an amazingly cool set of sculptures that are a science-fiction fan's dream come true - if you think about insects and clockwork.
Jumping Microrobot 'Flea' Is Solar Powered
   Little fleas have littler fleas, it is said. Here comes one now.
Bandai Hex Bug Toy Robot Infestation
   These tiny pests need to be paid, and probably kept charged as well (see pix and video).
Robotic Fly Micro Air Vehicle
   I'd hate to think that one guy with a flyswatter could take down your entire air force.
Morphing Micro Air-Land Vehicle: It Flies, It Crawls
   There is something definitely creepy about a small flying vehicle that also crawls along to be able to spy better.
3D DNA-Directed Nanoassembly
   First instance of three-dimensional self-directed nanoassembly; building materials from the bottom up.
NeuroArm Robotic Surgeon 'Hands'
   I think Raymond Z. Gallun called this one in 1939; think 'caliper slowness, minuteness and precision.'
Self-Repairing Aircraft Mimic Borg Cubes
   It may be possible for aircraft to repair structural damage in flight - kind of like a Borg cube, but with no offers to assimilate passengers. Yet.
DelFly Micro Smallest Camera Plane
   Look out - this tiny MAV ornithopter can be steered remotely using the video feed from its tiny camera.
ExoFly Flapping Planetary Survey Aerobot
   Visionary use of the tiny DelFly micro camera plane in planetary exploration and survey is planned.
Katana Mono-Wing Rotorcraft Nano Air Vehicle
   DARPA is financing this coin-sized flying machine; take a look at four imagined futures as well.
3D HD da Vinci Surgical Robotics
   This remarkable system lets you perform microsurgery in binocular hd.
Bendable, Self-Healing Concrete
   This engineered cement composite can not only bend, it can heal itself without any intervention from human beings.
Stealthy, Persistent Perch and Stare UAVs
   Yet another DARPA program that proves they've been reading great science fiction from the Thirties (and beyond).
Robotic Microsurgery Instrument Goes Anywhere
   The idea of robotic micro-surgical instruments has a longer history in sf than in medicine. This powerful TED talk displays the latest devices.
Robo-Bat Has Shape Memory Alloy Joints
   Cutting edge materials used for bones, joints and muscles make this robotic bat as light as possible.
Robobees To Swarm At Harvard
   Ten million dollars from the NSF for wild-eyed science fiction from the 1930's? You betcha.
Bio-Mechanics And Micro-Robotic Flight
   Take a close look at one of nature's wonders - the micro air vehicle called a dragonfly.
Perching Project Drones Wait For You
   A surveillance officer's dream, flocks of these little drones may be perching in cities near you one day.
Robotic Insect Pop-Up Origami Fabrication
   Remarkable fabrication process for tinier and tinier robots.
Insectothopter Robotic Dragonfly CIA Tech From 1970s
   See the video; this is pretty amazing for the 1970's.
Microcamera Big As Grain Of Salt
   New manufacturing process yields tiny cameras no larger than a coarse grain of salt.
Robobee Learns The Waggle Dance
   Karl von Frisch, are you watching this?
BOLT Bipedal Ornithopter Robot
   Remarkable video shows progress in flapping wing robotic MAVs.
Hand-Held Robot Operates On Man's Prostate
   'In his slender hands he held a surgical instrument he had invented. It was a marvel!'
Smart, Self-Healing Hydrogels
   Linked chains of polymer molecules... with 'dangling side chain' molecules.
Israel's Robotic Butterfly Drone Flies Indoors
   'There it studied its surroundings, transmitting to its manipulator... all that it heard through its ear microphones and saw with its minute vision tubes.'
Self-Healing Materials - Microencapsulated or Microvascular
   'An inter-skin layer of gum that could seal the punctures...'
Six Inflatable Space Structures From Science Fiction
   'In another minute John Endlich and his wife were setting up an airtight tent...' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.
Can't Wait For My Robot Dragonfly!
   'It studied its surroundings, transmitting to its manipulator... all that it heard through its ear microphones and saw with its minute vision tubes.' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936.
Telescopes With Liquid Mirrors Go Mainstream
   'The bowl contained mercury. As the container spun on its perfectly balanced axis, centrifugal force caused the mercury to spread...'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1934.
Black Hornet Nano UAV Used By British Troops
   'The Scarab paused on its perch for a moment...'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936.
RoboBee Swarm Replaces Pollinating Insects?
   'With a buzz that any uninformed person would have mistaken for that of a beetle, it started out on its journey.'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936.
Drosophila Robotica, The Mechanical Fly
   '... the Scarab [flying robot] buzzed into the great workroom as any intruding insect might...'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936.
CurvACE Artificial Compound Insect Eye
   '...transmitting to its manipulator, far away now, all that it ... saw with its minute vision tubes.'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936.

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