Robosimian robot developed by the NASA reactive movement for the Darpa Robotics Challenge NASA-JPL Autonomous racing car from Stanford PET-PROTO robot Joint work of robots Charli robot Da Vinci robot Robot Iuro Serious work on robotics is carried out according to the programs of the German concern Kuka, Massachusetts Technological University (MIT), and the main players in the robotics market are Honda, Mitsubishi, Sony (in Japan); IROBOT and Boston Dynamics (in the USA), as well as DARPA - the

On October 31, 2012, Ukrainians held a picket at the Embassy of the Russian Federation under the slogan “We sweep out a broom of Russian oligarchs from Ukraine!” Participants in the coalition of public initiatives and organizations (“Student Protection”, the Association of Peasant Farms of the Kyiv Region, the public organization “Health of the Nation” and others), beat the bell and symbolically swept the scarecrow of “oligarchic capital” to the gates of the Russian embassy.

Anna Zhelnina , Elena Omelchenko NIC "Region". Fragment of the main page of the site Recently, a material was published on one of the regional news portals of the Ulyanovsk region in which the Region Research Center, which has existed for 17 years at the Ulyanovsk State University, was exhibited as a “foreign agent”.

For the first time in ten years, Vladimir Putin will refuse a “direct line” with citizens who, since the beginning of his first presidential term, traditionally took place on federal television channels, the Kommersant newspaper writes on Wednesday. There are no official comments on this score. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov vaguely answered the question of the publication and did not name the reason why the “direct line” would stop going out. “Nobody refused her.

In connection with the Hurricane Sandy, the number of police patrols has been raised in the United States with a hurricane. According to AP, the city authorities are afraid that due to the disconnection of electricity and the general confusion on the streets of the city, the number of crimes may sharply increase. So, for example, some galleries in the Chelsea area on Manhattan hired private guards. As for residential buildings, there are often the control functions began to perform managers.

The American software company Surfcast sued the Microsoft Corporation, which allegedly stole the idea of ​​the Live Tiles for its new Windows 8 operating system, The NEXT WeB reports . Recall that the main difference between the Windows 8 system, as well as the operating system for the Windows Phone mobile phones, is a graphic interface from self -repaired square icons, the content of which varies from the application to the application. The interface is called "Live Tiles" ( Live Tiles).

The Basmanny Court of Moscow granted the investigation and extended until March 6 the term of arrest to one of the defendants in the case of riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6 Andrei Barabanov, RAPSI said in court. Earlier, until March 6, the arrest was extended to Nikolai Caucasian , although lawyers asked the court to mitigate the preventive measure due to the deterioration of the health of the client, which is a vegetarian. Recall that in the case, 18 people pass the suspects.

The Ministry of Transport supported the Russian Railways proposal to allocate almost 1 trillion rubles until 2020 for the reconstruction of the Baikal-Amur highway . According to Izvestia , to include the reconstruction of the BAM in the list of priority projects for the development of transport infrastructure of the Far East, they were sent to the government. The POCT provides for an increase in the bandwidth of the BAM from the current 20 million to 50 million tons of cargo per year.

In Moscow, on the Triumphal Square for participation in the unauthorized rally “Strategy-31”, the leaders of the opposition-Eduard Limonov and the coordinator of the “Left Front” Konstantin Kosyakin were detained, Ovdinfo.org reports. The activist Ekaterina Mochalova was also detained . It is noted that Eduard Limonov came to the square not by the beginning of the action and was detained immediately after arrival.

The prosecutor’s office stopped an attempt to extra -budget financing of the reconstruction of the Vnukovo Airport, not allowing to conclude an illegal deal for 2 billion rubles. with the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Administration of Civil Aerodromes" (FSUE "Aga").

Polycentric development is one of the priorities of the urban planning policy of Moscow. In accordance with this, promising points of development of the Russian capital were determined , in which it is planned to primarily create new jobs that stimulate the formation of Moscow as a modern metropolis, the press service of the Department of Town Planning Policy reports.

On Wednesday, 12 participants in the opposition campaign in support of 31 articles of the Constitution of Freedom of Assembly were detained on the triumphal square in Moscow in the evening, OVD.info reports. Among the detainees are the names of Nadezhda Mityushkina, Alexander Manotskov, Artem Tutkhalichev, Denis Yudin and Ekaterina Mochalova.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will continue to communicate in the format of the Direct Line program only next year, in the future it will be held in the warm season, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov. Peskov said that no one would refuse the program, as it is popular among Russians and is very in demand.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow satisfied the application of the investigation and extended the arrest of another person involved in the case of the “riots” in Bolotnaya Square to Nikolai Caucasian until March 6, 2013, Rapsei reports. Caucasian lawyers asked the court to mitigate the preventive measure, since the state of health of the suspect during his stay in the pre -trial detention center worsened. In addition, he does not have access to proper medical care.

The Federation Council approved the bill in accordance with which labor migrants working in the fields of housing and communal services, trade and services will be required to test the Russian language, RIA Novosti reports. The law will enter into force on December 1, 2012 after the approval of the president. Recall that the State Duma adopted a bill in the third reading on October 26.