New data has Microsoft’s Bing search engine showing a small rise in market share during the month of June, as the novelty wears off but interest remains.
At the search giant’s e-mail security unit, globally distributed automated systems and Zero-Hour software keep spam and viruses out of inboxes.
Designed for search and rescue missions – which, let’s face it, are only ever one loose word away from “search and destroy” – the SCRATCHbot uses its whiskers to detect disaster survivors in inhospitable or dangerous areas. The Bristol Robotics Laboratory developed the rat-inspired people searcher over the past 6 years and now hopes to find interest for it in underground and underwater projects where vision may be impaired. Far less heroic uses are also being contemplated, such as textile inspection and implementation inside intelligent vacuum cleaners that would be able to adjust their cleaning to the particular surface they sense. Video of the new bot coming to life is after the break.
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