Last month, I took you on a tour of Second Life and showed you some applications for it besides entertainment. This month, I explain how you can run your own virtual island using the Second Life ...

Engineers have developed an open source software package called OpenSim that accurately models human movement. OpenSim is free and in use across the world helping scientists understand the complex ...

Stanford researchers have developed an open-source, human-inspired robotics technology that simulates human movement and can be scaled to match individual body sizes, ages and genders. The technology, ...

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OpenSim includes support for vehicles and in-world scripting, as well as avatar appearance editing, inventories, payments, groups, search and instant messages. In fact, OpenSim currently offers users ...

There are 640 muscles in the human body, or maybe it is 639. Or maybe it is 850. Or 656. It all depends on whom you ask. In any case, it is a lot. Stanford bioengineer Scott Delp knows; he has ...