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MODULAR ADVANTAGES. "The cooperating robots benefit from distributed actuation of modular robots to climb steps, while being able to break the modular robot up when it is too cumbersome to drag the connected robots up the step." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn

HUMAN-ROBOT COOPERATION. "Direct cooperation between man and machine: At its main plant in Ingolstadt, Audi has for the first time deployed a robot that works “hand-in-hand” with humans – without a safety barrier and ideally adapted to the employees’ working cycles. It is the first human-robot cooperation at the Volkswagen Group to be applied in final assembly." http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/info_center/en/news/2015/02/cooperation.html View in LinkedIn

PLASTICITY IN DEFENSE GENES. "In contrast, a major herbivory defense pathway showed significantly elevated intraspecific variation suggesting that it may be under pressure to maintain and/or generate diversity in response to fluctuating insect herbivory pressures." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001838 View in LinkedIn

INDUSTRIAL APPS. "The project aspires to the integration of the latest industrial automation systems for assembly operations, in combination with human capabilities. Focus is given to combining robot strength, velocity, predictability, repeatability and precision with human intelligence and skills to get at a hybrid solution that would be involving the safe cooperation of operators with autonomous and adapting robotic systems." https://lnkd.in/ddC3WcP View in LinkedIn

FUNCTIONAL CONSTRAINTS. "The specific biological function of the gene as defined by metabolic pathway also modulated the level of intraspecific gene expression variation. The major energy metabolism and biosynthetic pathways showed decreased variation, suggesting that they are constrained in their ability to accumulate gene expression variation." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001838 View in LinkedIn

ROBOT CARETAKERS. “In late 2011, Toyota Motor Corp. reported that it planned to release a group of robots that will act as health-care aids by 2013. The robots are being designed to lift patients and to help people suffering from paralysis to walk again." https://lnkd.in/dhUaYtk View in LinkedIn

GREATER PLASTICITY IN YOUNGER GENES. "In all instances, the younger tandem duplicated genes showed higher intraspecific gene expression variation than the average Arabidopsis gene. Surprisingly, the older segmental duplicates also showed evidence of elevated intraspecific gene expression variation albeit typically lower than for the tandem duplicates." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001838 View in LinkedIn

CAREGIVER APPS. "Creating autonomous robots that assist humans in situations of daily life has always been among the most important visions in robotics research." https://lnkd.in/dBANstU View in LinkedIn

ROBOT TEAMS. "We must build teams of possibly heterogeneous robots that can work together to accomplish a mission that no individual robot can accomplish alone." https://lnkd.in/e3yjqqd View in LinkedIn

NEED FOR FUNCTIONAL DATA. "In the absence of functional biochemical evidence, it is difficult to classify gene expression changes between tandem duplicates as true sub-functionalization versus neo-functionalization coupled with intraspecific gene expression variation." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001838 View in LinkedIn