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Weekend Web Wonders
By rickyjames, Section News
Posted on Sat Nov 22, 2003 at 02:39:20 AM PST

Announcements Here's the latest in a variety of science fields from around the web: the first New Testament inscription has been found on a Jerusalem burial headstone...research shows that male sexual orientation is tied to brain metabolism... ...a controversial primate brain lab gets a go-ahead...a new web-based atlas of neurosurgery techniques is announced...as is a new genome-sequencing technology that can sequence the human genome in a single year instead of a decade...a brief article about the USGS's real-time global earthquake map...quantum molecules that huddle together as one for warmth (well, not exactly)...the world's first custom-designed protein......robots that can do kung-fu moves and then carry the body away...starting development of an American hypersonic weapon...NASA's Project Prometheus has successfully tested an ion engine...a cheap way of discovering extrasolar planets...a book review on A Traveler's Guide To Mars...an educational incentive from a martian sundial for schoolchildren all over Earth to put live images of their own local sundials on the Web...

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Rolem the Wrestling Robot (5.00 / 1) (#1)
by ChiefTechnovelgist on Sun Nov 23, 2003 at 06:15:40 AM PST
I posted a story (and a cool picture!) of HOAP-2, a real Kung Fu robot, on my site, and linked it to a reference to a wrestling robot from Roger Zelazny's 1966 novel This Immortal. See Robot Masters Sumo and Linux.



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