Summary: Looks inside the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a national competition in the design of rescue robots. Examines recent advances in the development of robots instilled with human skills. Offers speculation upon ways in which robots will become part of everyday life and the impact they will have on the job market.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RISSummary: When the New Horizons spacecraft whizzed by Pluto in 2015, Earthlings were dazzled by the breathtaking images it beamed home. They revealed a never-before-seen alien landscape - a world of mountains made of ice mixed with plains of frozen-solid methane and nitrogen. After over two years of poring over the data, NASA has made remarkable new discoveries about everyone's favorite dwarf planet. But...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PLUArtist Not Provided
Summary: Examines why it is that animals and humans require sleep in order to survive, and the role in which it plays in memory, trauma, and emotion regulation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2020