Technology Review: December/January 2002

Immobots Take Control: From photocopiers to space probes, machines injected with robotic self-awareness are reliable problem solvers.

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Gentlemen, Start Your Robots

Automating Animation

Microbe Power

Building Better Bacteria

Internet Insurance

Sensing Speed Limits

Corporate R&D Set Free

Watching the Clock

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The Whole Picture: Holography´s microscopic origins.

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Prescription RNA: RNA-based drugs offer hope for treating cancer, AIDS, and other diseases.

How You´ll Pay: Which of the competing electronic-payment devices will we choose?

R&D Scorecard 2002: Research that breaks the mold.

R&D 2002: Quantum Computing: Microsoft Research’s theoretical mathematics program breaks into a strategy to make quantum computing work.

R&D 2002: Electricity-Producing Vehicles: General Motors’ Hydronomy program research links fuel cell cars to the electric grid by 2010.

R&D 2002: Advanced Brain Imaging: Hitachi Advanced Research Labs’ brain science applications program research improves education through brain imaging.

R&D 2002: Nano Ceramics: General Electric’s nanotechnology program’s research toughens ceramics based on the microstructure of seashells.

Noise Therapy: Boston University´s James Collins uses background noise to steady the step of the elderly.

Columns

Think Outside the Mailbox: Torrents of e-mail have turned us all into file clerks. Isn´t there a better way?

Ease of Learning: An innovation isn´t any good if it´s a bad teacher.

A Dose of Common Sense: Each country´s patent and copyright laws should serve the greater good.

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Electroactive Polymers: Artificial muscles made of electroactive polymers impart lifelike movements to biomedical and robotic devices.

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