Friday, November 21, 2008

space station


A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live in outer space.Space stations are currently (as of 2007) used to study the effects of long-term space flight on the human body as well as to provide platforms for greater number and length of scientific studies than available on other space vehicles.Space stations have been used for both military and civilian purposes. The last military-use space station was Salyut 5, which was used by the Almaz program of the Soviet Union in 1976 and 1977.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Gules

UK robotics researchers have taken up the task of creating a robot that would reproduce human facial expressions most accurately, and it seems they succeeded. Jules, the result of their combined efforts, is a bodyless talking robot head that can make use of its 34 under-skin servo motors in order to move its facial "muscles," such as lips, eyebrows or foreheadThe scientists from the University of Bristol have managed to develop a piece of software that would transmit images of a human face to the robot's "brain", which will appropriately adjust the motion of the engines, which in turn will move the rubber skin and the eyes in order for the robotic face to reflect the respective images. .

Monday, November 3, 2008

Gibraltar Bridge


The Gibraltar Bridge is a conceptual structure spanning the strait of Gibraltar that would connect Europe to Africa. A bridge between Europe and Africa would facilitate tarde, but would also introduce human problems.Several engineers had advanced designs fro the Gibraltar bridge.