Cobotics will soon be combined with another emerging technology called haptic interfacing or the human intelligence of touch. The cameras allow viewers to observe the activities of the organizations over the Internet. Visit Kris Hammond's Webcam in his office at Northwestern University. Veronica Williams gears us up with a personal electronic arsenal. See what pager, wireless phone, PDA and laptop is best for you.
Robotic pets learn, respond and interact with their human owners using artificial intelligence.
We take a look at some of the hottest sellers including Furby and Poo-Chi from Tiger Electronics in Vernon Hills, Ill. and the Aibo , an electronic dog from Sony. Find out what people in the 30s,40s, and 50s thought cars of the future would be like. Host Elizabeth Brackett visits with the X-Man, the new MP3 cyberstar of the local music group La Junta, in Humbolt Park. Astronomers are just beginning to understand some of the materials that comprise the known universe but a large portion of it is still unknown. Dark matter is a leading theory to explain the bulk of the universe's composition but astronomers still haven't ever seen or cataloged it.