Amelia Bloomer

Amelia

Amelia was built by Real World Interface (RWI) using Xavier-a mobile robot platform developed at CMU on a B24 base from RWI-as a prototype. Amelia has substantial engineering improvements over Xavier. Amelia is built on a B21 base. It has a top speed of 32 inches per second, while improved integral dead-reckoning insures extremely accurate drive and position controls. The battery life is six ho...

Amelia

Multisensory Integration: A Late Bloomer

Under many circumstances, human adults integrate information from different sensory modalities, such as vision and hearing, in a statistically optimal fashion. New results suggest that optimal multisensory integration only develops in middle childhood.

Tasty genetic bloomer

Erickson HP: Structure of a fibronectin type III domain from tenascin phased by MAD analysis of the selenomethionyl protein. Gazetteer Tsukuba Science City Where is it? Sixty kilometres northeast of Tokyo and forty from the airport — just far enough to be inconvenient for both. The city has an estimated population of 180 000 and covers an area of about 27 km 2. How old is it? Although it's now ...

Tetra-Amelia Syndrome

A newborn was noticed lying unattended in the hospital campus. It had complete absence of all four limbs, deformed ears, facial cleft, proptosis, hydrocephalus, corneal opacity, absent nipples, anterior abdominal wall defect with exstrophy bladder, absent external genitalia, and sacral spina bifida (Fig.1 A & B). The child died after few hours due to aspiration pneumonitis. These features are p...