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Eric Singer poses with one of his robotic instruments, XyloBot, which uses an array of mallets to play a xylophone much like a real musician would.

Robotic instruments make music

Eric Singer, creator of LEMUR, works on interactive robotic instruments that have been used by some of the world's greatest musicians.

Ben Underwood, who was blind, was able to use echolocation to do the same things his sighted friends could do.

Health Talk: Human Echolocation

While normally attributed to bats and dolphins, echolocation has been effectively used by blind humans to navigate the world.

Cloud computing simplifies computing projects by having certain services provided on the Internet. Data can be stored over the Internet in servers like these.

How Things Work: Cloud Computing

Learn about cloud computing, a method of providing services on the internet to simplify computing projects.

SciTech Briefs

Two experiments may lead to more insight on the nature of dark matter, the mysterious form of matter that pervades the universe.

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