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| Robots Kiss, But Don't Go To Second Base |
With robots now doing everything from strutting the fashion catwalk to greeting hotel guests, it was only a matter of time before our humanoid friends started engaging in public displays of affection.
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| How Things Work: 3D Printing |
| For architects, making wooden models of their designs probably requires painstakingly hard work. One first has to cut the wood, glue it or nail it together, and then start with the painting and fine detailing. Making such prototypes of their work is tedious even for artists and engineers. It requires a large amount of time and effort just to make these small models. |
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| Dino Might |
| A rare fossil holds great promise to providing definitive answers about dinosaurs. Leonardo was a Brachylophosaur, a short-crested lizard; a typical member of the hadrosaurid family. These duckbilled dinosaurs were common herbivores that roamed the earth more than 75 million years ago. |
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| A Racing Legend Is Reborn |
Before McLaren was a huge operation based in England and a technological partner with the likes of Mercedes and Porsche, it was a racing car company founded and run by two blokes from New Zealand. Together they built some damn fine racing cars.
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| NVision Scanner Ensures Accuracy of Crash Dummies Used to Check Rollover Performance |
| First Technology Safety Systems, Inc. (FTSS) uses the NVision HandHeld laser scanner to ensure the accuracy of crash dummies, which are crucial in evaluating the performance of side curtain airbags in a rollover. FTSS is the world's leading provider of crash test dummies and computer crash simulation models for automotive, military and aerospace applications. |
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| 3D Scanner Recreates Real-Life Objects on the Computer Screen |
| The line between computers and reality has been blurred. We have murders committed because of World of Warcraft, Second Life romances (an activity normally reserved for the three dimensional world), and now there’s a way to turn any real-life object into a computer model. |
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| ZScanner from Z Corp Lets Marine Design Firm Sail into New Markets |
Among the joys of business are the unexpected directions it can take you. Protosys, a product development firm in Portugal, is a case in point. The company is discovering that its powerful reverse-engineering technology is suddenly in high demand by, surprisingly, the archaeology community.
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| Using Heat to Scan Transparent Surfaces |
Today, with quality control gaining importance, reconstruction solutions that lead to a full-quality 2D and 3D inspection are being developed. However, when objects are highly transparent or highly specular, 3D reconstruction becomes very difficult.
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| Laser Technology Used to Find Riser Defects off Angola |
Aberdeen-based subsea surveillance company Smart Light Devices (SLD) has been working with BP on a project to identify the problem with two defective risers at the Greater Plutonio installation on Block 18 offshore Angola.
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| Kyungwon University's Special Collections - 3D Digital Cultural Heritage |
| 3D cultural heritage collectors have recently assembled in Kyungwon University with support from the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism to march in step with the movement of the Culture Technology Boom. The newly coined term, Culture Technology, often refers to the convergence of culture and technology, which are put together to form into a new business. |
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| Blair Athol Chooses Maptek 3D Scanning Technology |
Blair Athol Mine has chosen Maptek I-Site 4400LR laser scanning technology for survey applications. The coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin is the 5th Rio Tinto site on the East Coast of Australia to adopt the robust system.
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| Laser Scanning Boosts Speed of Rapid Manufacturing |
| Quickly moving from complex prototype to CAD model to finished product is the key to competitiveness. You have a carefully crafted clay prototype made by a top design artist. Each detail is exquisite and you want to make sure every last one is molded into the finished article. |
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| Digital Recording Of Rushmore Is Planned |
An agreement announced Friday will lead to a 3D digital recording of Mount Rushmore National Memorial useful for public education or to replicate the carving if it’s ever damaged.
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