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Robots that can leap 8 metres vertically to clear walls or fences may soon find themselves in the military.Sandia National Laboratories’ prototype Urban Hopper can really do wonders just by hopping.Now robot maker Boston Dynamics has landed the job of producing a military version with a dash of more self-control.

The National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms (NaCoMM) is a series of national conference organized by Association for Machines and Mechanisms (AMM), an affiliate of the International Federation for Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) on different themes of interest of Machines and Mechanisms once in every two years. In this year, 14th NaCoMM (NaCoMM - 09) is being organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India.
http://nacomm.nitdgp.ac.in/index.html

National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) GLOGIFT 09’ , an International Conference with the theme “Flexibility in Management and Technology for Global Business Excellence” is an effort to provide a global forum for practitioners, policy makers, teachers, researchers and learners to share their practical experiences, knowledge and insight in the evolution, formulation and implementation of strategies and models for flexible enterprises to meet the changing requirements of global business.

An international team of researchers led by Queensland University in Australia claim to have developed a cancer drug that avoids the unpleasant effects of chemotherapy like hair loss.

International Conference on Algal Biomass – Resources and Utilization, Krishnamurthy Institute of Algology, paper presentation, poster presentation, Pharmaceuticals, Biomass Production, Biofuels, Nutraceuticals

In an unprecedented event, cricket commentator Ravi Shastri has become the first ever human to fail (a modified version of) the Turing Test. This indicates that while some extremely intelligent machines can (and do) exhibit human-like behaviour, the reverse is also possible i.e an extremely dull-headed human being can behave like a machine.

The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics ROBIO is to provide a forum for researchers in the interdisciplinary areas of robotics and biomimetics to disseminate their latest research results.

National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India. All the accepted papers for NaCoMM 09 will be available on CD as well as in printed proceedings. Selected papers would be recommended for publication in the IFToMM journal Mechanism and Machine Theory. A national level students' competition on indigenously developed mechanisms will be a part of NaCoMM for the first time. A special session will be dedicated for this purpose. Further details would appear soon at the conference.
http://www.nitdgp.ac.in/

Intelligent Mechatronic Systems' (IMS) iLane, the first in-car device that interacts directly with your smartphone and lets you manage your inbox hands-free, using simple voice commands.iLane, a portable smartphone-compatible device, which can be installed inside vehicles and gives drivers the ability to control their smartphones entirely hands-free. iLane reads out e-mails to the user, on command