Robo-Butterflies Don't Contribute Much to Science, But We Still Want Some
Engineers Hiroto Tanaka of Harvard University and Isao Shimoyama of the University of Tokyo have created an artificial butterfly that approximates the flight patterns of their fluttering brethren. But one of the co-authors of their research, U.C. Berkeley physiologist Robert Dudley, doesn't seem to think that the butterfly bots contribute any new information to the study of biology. Check out a ...
Hey, Google Books, get a load of this! Masatoshi Ishikawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo, has developed a system that can scan books simply by flipping pages under its camera eye. Professor Ishikawa claims that a 200-page book could be rendered by the machine in under a minute.
Details are a bit scarce (and the dear professor's accent rather thick), so you'll just have to watch the ...








