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Scientists at Stanford have developed helicopters powered by artificial intelligence. This invention enables the helicopters to fly themselves without the help of a pilot. Helicopters powered by artificial intelligence can fly themselves by watching what other helicopters are doing. This invention is a great stepping stone to success of developing autonomous helicopters and will advance even further.

Autonomous helicopters were there even in the past, but the functionalities were very much limited. Those copters were unable to control or fly in abrupt in environmental circumstances. Intelligent helicopters however, can handle all tasks efficiently. Advanced copters of these types powered by artificial intelligence are capable of handling various functions such as rolls, loops, tail slides etc.

Numerous algorithms govern the functionalities of intelligent helicopters and the entire team is led by Professor Andrew NG. These types of helicopters are going to define new dimensions in autonomous helicopter systems and are raking up global interest.

MIT Media lab has come up with a very latest invention of robots with facial expressions. The robot is able to make some facial expressions like lifting of eye brows with anger or surprise. Also, the robot can make other expressions when communicating with people and is the true face of interactive bots.

This achievement of MIT Media labs is termed as NEXI which is intended to be described as next generation robots. Next generation robots will be able to perform a wide variety of applications including personal interactions.
The face design as well as head design of NEXI robots were done by Xitome designs, which is a development company. The neck of robot has freedom of flexibility and it can turn or tilt its neck a maximum of four degrees. The face itself is highly innovative as the eyes, eye brows, eye lids and other parts of face are designed creatively and aesthetically.

It has been sometime since we started hearing that Microsoft is developing operating systems based on cloud computing and cloud computing is considered to be as the next generation technology for operating systems. MIDORI is being developed to cater cloud computing requirements for operating systems to make things simple..

The conventional theory of how operating system works are likely to get outdated as people becomes very mobile. Normally, an operating system will be loaded on a hard drive which means the OS is very much dependant on the underlying hardware. When mobile requirements become so important, cloud computing is very relevant. As a matter of facts, MIDORA expected to function in a cloud computing environment will bring in the much awaited virtualization requirements in a highly mobile world. The release date of MIDORA is not yet announced but it is heard that MIDORA will hit the market in early 2010.

4G technologies or fourth generation technologies are the technologies used for fourth generation wireless communication technologies. Fourth generation wireless technologies are designed to serve wireless needs on a full-fledged IP based mechanism. The key features of 4G technology is the ability to communicate in very high speed and the enhanced security.

Another important feature of 4G technology is the ability to facilitate high quality video transmission. 4G technology powered machines will be able to download movies or songs at tremendous speed in a real time environment.

The transmission rates of data on mobile phones are expected to cross 20 mbps and it could be estimated that the data transfer rate of 20 mbps is approximately ten times faster to 3G mobile broad bands. As far as connection seeds are concerned, the performance of 4G will be approximately 200 times faster to current 2G mobile broad bands and approximately 15 times faster than any ASDL service.

Bluetooth 3.0 can be named as one of the latest technological innovations in the cell phone arena. With impeccable performance and very high data transfer rates, Bluetooth 3.0 technology will be shortly incorporated in mobile phones. Bluetooth 3.0 specifications will shortly be released this year, and is going to hit the mobile shelves in early 2010.

The data transfer rate of Bluetooth 3.0 is the beigest advantage of its specifications. Bluetooth 3.0 specifications claim that, data can be transferred as fast as 480 mbps. Within a range distance of 10 meters, Bluetooth 3.0 specifications can communicate or transfer data at a speed of 100 mbps. Apart from all these, Bluetooth 3.0 spec has the ever wanted feature of low power mode and this feature will facilitate quite a lot of applications with the mobile phones. The backward compatibility mode of Bluetooth 3.0 enables older devices to easily communicate, and is unimterrupted.