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Smart rubber promises self-mending products
A new type of rubber can heal itself after being cut www.newscientist.com Footage: Francois Tournilhac/Ludwik Leibler
Robot with a rat brain
Read more: technology.newscientist.com This robot steers clear of obstacles thanks to a pile of rat brain cells. Footage courtesy Reading University
Float like a robot butterfly
For more information go here: www.newscientisttech.com Professor Dario Floreano and his colleagues are testing optical-flow sensing software on a miniature propeller-driven aircraft. Dubbed Microflyer, it tracks the position of features on the ground and walls using two cameras scanning below and ahead
Top tech movies: Creepy-crawly climbing bots and more 2
For more information: www.newscientisttech.com Researchers at Case Western University in Ohio, US, are using robots equipped with a cross between wheels and legs -- called "whegs" -- to test a new material that mimics the gravity-defying feet of geckos and insects. This video shows a flying robot with whegs as well as retractable wings. Courtesy of Dr. Roger Quinn
Motion-capture without the markers
Read more: technology.newscientist.com A new motion-capture technology could allow even low-budget film makers to use sophisticated animation.
Robot keeps marching with multi-level control
The 23-cm-tall robot, called Runbot, adapts to unfamiliar terrain in an instinctive way - exploiting the process thought to explain the way animals control locomotion - has been developed by European researchers
How animals made us human
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Fluid creates magnetic sculptures
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New Scientist video round-up - November 16, 2007
Watch some cool animal robots, see the head of a bizarre dinosaur that had over 500 teeth and find out why some cichlid fish are into oral sex.
New Scientist video round-up - December 21, 2007
Find out how a new technique could sharpen up your digital photos, watch a galaxy collide with a particle beam, see the world through the eyes of an owl and more...
New Scientist video round-up - October 10, 2008
Read more: www.newscientist.com Carbon material gives more grip than gecko feet. Deepest-living fishes caught on camera for the first time. Digital zebrafish embryo provides the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate.
Play games with mindreading headset
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Robot fish synchronise into schools
Read more technology.newscientist.com These robot fish can organise themselves into schools - a tactic that could one day transform ocean exploration. Footage courtesy University of Washington
New Scientist video round-up - September 26, 2008
Find out about a robotic dragonfly that could soon be sent to space, wasps that recognise recent acquaintances and a study that shows that babies may be less forgetful than we think.
New Scientist video round-up - March 20, 2008
Watch acrobatic geckos perform funky moves with their tails: www.newscientist.com See some new rock climbing robots: technology.newscientist.com Find out how paragliders and falcons compare when they glide and take a watch how a hormone called cortisol can affect a squirrel's learning ability.
New Scientist video round-up - September 19, 2008
See underwater life that glows red, fungi that shoot out spores with the fastest acceleration ever seen in nature and a new bus that's steered by a computer.
Print your own flute
Read more: www.newscientist.com See a plastic flute that sounds just like a metal one.
Orbiting the Earth
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New Scientist video round-up -- June 13, 2008
Watch robotic fish, Diet coke explosions and natural underwater CO2 acidification.
New Scientist video round-up - June 27, 2008
Find out how piglets respond to classical music: www.newscientist.com Watch footage of pigs being dumped in the ocean to study how bodies decompose underwater: www.newscientist.com Find out how unborn crocs help others come out of their shells: www.newscientist.com
New Scientist video round-up - March 28, 2008
See some birds cooperate to get a snack: www.newscientist.com Watch footage of a collapsing ice shelf in Antarctica: environment.newscientist.com Find out about a material that's surprisingly strong and check out some recent footage of NASA's new Lunar Chariot: technology.newscientist.com
Smart CCTV
Read more: www.newscientist.com A prototype surveillance system autonomously detects unusual patterns of behaviour.
New Scientist video round-up - March 7, 2008
Find out how traffic jams can occur without a warning: technology.newscientist.com See footage of a new aircraft that morphs its wings in a similar way to swift birds:: technology.newscientist.com
