IEEE Spectrum November, 2009 - 1

volume 46 number 11 north american

11.09

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n 12 November:
the Future of robotics
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Available on-demand webinars:
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simulink With symbolic computation
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n reducing Physical verification cycle
times With Debug Innovation
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n robotics and Academic research
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robots for real

In a series of audio slide shows, scientists and engineers show how they
are bringing robots into our daily lives. We talk with Swiss researchers
teaching robots to walk, visit a Silicon Valley start-up developing opensource robots, and hear how one Japanese roboticist [right] is using
androids to study human-machine interaction. Go to http://spectrum.ieee.
org/special-reports/robots to see how these and other robotics projects
will transform our lives-for real.

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Renewable Resources

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CAptuRINg SOuNd wIth SmOke
ANd lASeRS: Audio engineer David
schwartz was out to dinner with his
wife when he noticed their voices
disturbing the smoke from a candle
on the table. schwartz and his son
used this as inspiration in developing
a new type of microphone with
no mechanical parts. Instead of
detecting sound waves with a vibrating
diaphragm, their device uses lasers
to measure deformation in a stream
of smoke. Watch the video to see a
demonstration of the new microphone.

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this month with Ieee milestones in
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