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His and other findings were presented over the weekendat the American Diabetes Association annual meeting, which in PhiladelThousands attended the ever which featured has 20/10 vision in his right eye and 20/15 in his left eye, It's what Johnson describes io1 The technology, currently , ee ee reduc: . of their... weeks of in clinical trial stages, is the Cees te ere of hexaccording to meaSARA: GAGA ontreks of lab mice, appear to mirror Zyoptix system. B&L theoptic machine will boost its lagging Profit, hurt by falling sales of veloe S7a0Seatac 3 ant sorsto map cat the ‘ankos Tithannaeaenyoes,Te ? eee or notto watching yourOvereating weight tends alter the Teresult: in the eye, ofsuchas pupil siz, [Heresult: customized customizedlaser lase Semsorssortout tions and createtheaimperfeedetailed thickness the cornea and atomeSten 2a a tae leads hanced chances for better results. ™ap of the cornea, the transparenttissue that covers the aberrations in its shape. So each patient who undergoes ‘even betpa’ “Total caloric intake plays ae he cakd. . major role,” “tthe confer. nee _— mane oe a. ee Se ee tae it pal barat luce ir chances ¢ race other major killer diabetes Patients, organizers said. Tights to the wavefront technology, a method based on 2StTonomy. David Williams, a University of Rochester vision scientist, began working on the method in 1993, when he became intrigued with The quest for better vision eS ee refractive surgeon Scott MacRae, 49, former head ofthe Oregon Eye Bank at Oregon Health Science University, tojointhe Rochester team of scientists minute test gets a personal with precise measurements that allow for customized cuts to be made during Jaser surgery, MacRae said, Strong Vision charges $3,200 for laser vision correction us- period. two 12." halfthe ” : 3 had seen . 20: fulfomaprre poem Soe ie cae Usahng abetes, sometae Seat ens yeaa, according o the diabetes asso. ciation. Thousands of cases go every year. — Troy Goodman ogee x Using “adaptive core ae and doctors last year. Most eye exams concen- trate only .on asda’ Intelligence? e Ex one- ing the Zyoptix system. EXpe; z : cure intelescopes, Wiliams isable tions of the eye that affect Peni. anvane,whoUne vision. regardless of the severity of wavefront measures myriad variations said. sensors. ; for * need , B+ But the Zyoptix machine the i : and wave to the audience like a aoe “Riken Artificial Head,” a ro- Japanese researchers are “In the movie, you have ro- Ce een said the Newton] that can help researchers study how a head moves in re- want to create humanoid.robots that can operate applianc- tiative, They were able to exhibit loyalty and pride and tio te eas is tt the pee rametersof whatitshouldbe. Said Jacobsen: “E=MC' was ': n a breakthrough. Underst for high- ers believe in just making that, in a general sense,1, eyes that as together in real time,” Jacobsen. “It rr some philosophical differences: Do you build a lation with the eyes. “It's < of agree on a uy can under- to measure the i of each person's eyes with a head aprogrammertolditto, . es, while American research. fear” Simmons said. “A lot of performance cameras in the “smart @ Continued from B-1 or fewer af- use everyone’s eyes bot head with cameras for eyes leading the field because they bots that were ableto take int ts ‘after: are shaped differently, the clearing up hazy distortions astigmatism, three condi- benefit Sarcos also is developing a human. < , Say why eagles can see so much farther than humans. computers and robots. Artificial Nah. S B&L holds the patent frontofthe eye. ae: aa ing to be Tom director of the School Al. Newton [17th Century’! tingatthe mathematician, Sir Isaac’. intelligence is principles.” will tell us the “We're still trying to under- ingwhat thought is will be stand the basics,” he said. 0 “We're still waiting for that ~ ee looks at your eyes and smiles.” general purpose humanoid to flies for the Mirage in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, researchers at MIT we 8 moving seeing robot operate the technology it Peorie alreatieare& : for: themselves? you put eeene,ComPanY’S is the result of all of the sub- the intelligence into the appli; ia like elds of artificial intelligence. ance themselves? Like a wash- Pais login penas be oo abetics, mechahhical artificial limbs, and guidewires for vasculate orale 7 2 pinsands te theme: oid roboties first began in the 1980s with the first robot hand fleveloped in coliaboration with the setts Institute of Technology (MIT). Today, company's most Scientists at MIT's Artificial Lab also are working on Kismet, a robotic capable of expressing a wide range of emotions based on how it reacts to movement it. : At the same time, robotic is accelerating in JaPal. whe engineers at companies like Sony and Honda == © ceacoger ing machine that washes the clothes itself,” said Reid Simmons, senior research computer science for the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. But with all of the research in robotics being done at Sarcos andat top centers like MIT and Mellon, most say we are decades away from creating anything close with an projects likeiseapablle the “ of balArm,” which ancing the end of a'stick on its d. the Sarcos Human. oid Rabot, which not only ean run in place but also juggle three balls by watching someone @lse do it. Those robots aein creating roare interested eater eg str rteare ™0re umans because people respond more positively to machines they can relateto. — Sony, in fact, has sold out ; ‘ Spielberg's movie. There be some ad: vances in artificial intelli gence, for example, when computers with speech-recognition software will be capable of more free-form conversations Kyoto, Japan, which was forme ¢0 taderstind “bank that wowed audiences at last year’s Consumer long way to go,” hesaid. “But if you would askit to start creat- tion” and duplicate thems én not just because it acted like a dog, but because it could sit up _ativity is pretty far out.” advanced work 3 SS ee were developed for the Kawato 10 Versions of ts $1,500 “AiDynamic Brain Project near 20” TObotic dog, a toy for the mechanisms of human cogni. Electronics Showin Las Vegas, ieOvaocen with people, Simmons said. “It’s. primitive and has a ing a poem, that kind of creUntil then, any ing a robot Just Click or Call! 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