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In a project from Minho University (my University by the way), a human and a robot are working together to assemble an object from its parts. But the human is doing it wrong, so the robot is warning him of the case. See the video below:

This kind of investigation is needed for a future where people and robots work together, with machines understanding what their biological colleagues are doing and acting in conformity.

Via New Scientist.

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Afonso has born yesterday, at 21h37 GMT, with 3.690 gr. He has an excellent health, and everything is well with the mother. The next days will be dedicated to him.

A little humor from typefaces, the font conference (via College Humor):

It's a rumor, so treat it like that, a rumor. MacDailyNews reports the next Apple cutting edge product will be what someone called the MacBook Touch:

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion's haptic tech. Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at "low" price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.

I was wondering what would be Apple's 2008 breakthrough product. Guess I found it. I recall to see some photos of this, but I lost them, do someone knows where to find some mockups of the possible MacBook Touch?

It seems Google is doing some experiments with theirs main product, the web search. Imagine adding Digg's functionalities to Google's web search results and voila, you get what can be seen as the future of web search: