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The Frontiers Decade: CyberDecade
The Frontiers Decade: CyberDecade The last decade of the 20th century gave us some amazing innovations from the cyber world: virtual reality therapy, long-distance robotic surgery, wearable computers, robotic spacecraft, robots that paint pictures and play soccer -- even a digital Alan Alda....
Changing Your Mind: Nerve Cell Infomercials
Alan Alda and Gerry Edelman study the behavior of Darwin, a robot who has learned that blocks with stripes taste good, and blocks with blobs taste bad. Darwin's brain is modeled on a mammal's brain, with a visual cortex to receive the camera image, and a second spe...
Journey to Mars: Getting There
quickly to gravity upon landing at their destination. To find out what happens to motor skills in changing gravity, Alan Alda braves the human-rated centrifuge. Viewers will also get a preview of the latest designs in space suits during a simulated microfossil hunt...
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