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Dutch researchers take flight with three-gram 'dragonfly'

July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s) | User comments: 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Wednesday 23 July, TU Delft will be presenting the minute DelFly Micro air vehicle. This successor to the DelFly I and II weighs barely 3 grams, and with its flapping wings is very similar ...


Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor

July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 38 vote(s) | User comments: 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect ...


Meet Robo habilis

July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project has brought the dream of human-like robots closer to reality by creating a human-like arm and hand controlled by an electronic ‘brain’ modelled on the human cerebellum.