Dennis Hong is the director of Robotics Mechanics Laboratory at UCLA and has invented numerous new robots earning the nickname the Leonardo da Vinci of Robots.
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Larry takes on an impossible mission: he's been asked to find an item worn in space by Apollo 15 legend Al Worden. Torie searches for Russian space items for a museum in San Francisco and Cole goes on the hunt for an item from Apollo 13.
We look at a newly discovered and oldest existing mammal tail preserved in Amber and being studied by scientists.
To mitigate this climate emergency, we must use all of the tools at our disposal, like the Nuclear Energy. This documentary looks at the new safer nuclear technology and how it could be utilised in a coal burning country like Australia.
A new enemy is emerging. This new enemy is the natural world itself, a microscopic realm of bacteria. And not just any bacteria, but the so-called super-bugs. We'll look at the emerging threats and what scientists are doing to counter them.
Hollywood has made us rather fearful of Artificial Intelligence, or A.I. But as we shall see, A.I. and its dance partner robotics might not be the nemesis we should fear at least, not if we get them right.
Northeast India is an anthropological paradise there is no other place on Earth with so many different ethnic groups. The forests are filled with mysterious tribes whose lives are dictated by the rain and the seasonal fruits of the forest.
The Western Ghats are a spine of mountains that lay claim to being one of the most biodiverse places in the world. In the east, tigers and wild dogs compete for prey. All the while, the western Ghats hold the key to life across southern India.
The ibex, marmot, and European adder have all developed strategies to survive the alpine winter.
Get to know a comparatively unknown corner of Switzerland, the Jura region. The film is a journey of discovery into almost untouched nature in the change of the seasons. The Jura Mountains are the little brother of the Alps
Part 2 continues to explore the wild turkey as one of game management's greatest success stories. Our traditional symbol of Nature's abundance was once feared to be gone as a gamebird due to overhunting by humans and a loss of their habitat.
A creature chosen by the Pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving meal that's now a rarity in Nature. Our largest gamebird with its flamboyant courtship.
We're fascinated by the Jaguar's spots, the Skunk's stripes, and the Raccoon's mask and Ringtailed. Maybe it's because these characteristic markings enable us to identify them easier and they even add an extra dimension to their personalities.
This medium sized rodent lives anywhere it can find plant food and still water. A diligent worker, it's always swimming, digging, or eating. Beady eyed and all business, it can be quarrelsome.
Managing wildlife most often means managing humans -- the primary predator in virtually all our ecosystems. Through this complex, but vital, process, we constantly try to balance our own conflicting interests with those of our native wild creatures.
From the Arctic Ground Squirrel of Alaska and the Golden-mantled of the Rockies to the ubiquitous Prairie Dog, our concealed cameras shed light on why these under-appreciated little critters allow us all to enjoy Nature's most magnificent species.
In French, the Fox is called "Reynard", meaning "unconquerable through his cleverness". Is this charming canid as crafty as the fables portray? Does it deserve its reputation as henhouse bandit?
Elegant and graceful, the Lynx is one of Nature's finest physical specimens. Its primary quarry is the elusive Snowshoe Hare. This fascinating, unexplained phenomenon is only one of many mysteries in the Great North Woods.
Through the night, a ravenous predator stalks its unwary prey. With a swift bite to the skull, it slays the victim, then throws back its head and howls.
Intimately linked together are two birds -- the speedy Goshawk and the alert Ruffed Grouse. Many predators pursue the Grouse, but none is so well-adapted to catch it as the Goshawk.
Prey can become play, for this solitary hunter sometimes pesters its captured quarry to death. Easily confused with its cousin, the Lynx, the Bobcat flourishes in close proximity to humans.
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