Computer-controlled

Finally, science has given us permission to play with our food. Taking a unique recipe featuring a modified electronic plate and plenty of imagination, researchers have dished up a fun way of enhancing a food experience for both a chef and the diner.

Spray paint is a notoriously tricky medium to control. Fortunately for would-be muralists everywhere, researchers have invented a "smart" spray paint system that can use regular cans of paint to re-create photo images as spray-painted murals on walls or other large surfaces.

Computer-controlled artificial legs have aided in improving amputees' freedom of movement by mimicking the natural motion of their missing limbs. Now, a new robotic ankle promises to make this motion even more precise by dynamically adjusting to the terrain underfoot.

Researchers at Michigan Technological University are developing a microprocessor-controlled prosthetic leg with an ankle that lets the foot tilt up and down and roll from side to side. It is said to allow for a more stable walking gait.

ShopBot launches a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of its Handibot app-controlled portable CNC machine.

Roger Hanson uses water from his home's geothermal heating system to create elaborate ice sculptures in his backyard.

The Chess Terminator draws a blitz match against former world champ Kramnik.

Test subjects who tried out a robotic arm for the physically-challenged found it "too easy," indicating peoples' tendency to prefer some challenge in their lives.

A new computer-controlled, motorized hand and arm support will users precisely control tools over a wider area that otherwise possible, and with less fatigue.

Scientists from the Canary Islands have developed an automatic anesthetic dosing system that responds to the level of a patient's consciousness.

Metal Storm has been granted a patent with important implications for the future of minefields. The system offers many advantages, including the ability to be switched off leaving no explosive ordnance remaining in the area that had been protected.

Cannondale has unveiled Simon, a prototype suspension fork controlled by an onboard microprocessor.