1. Development of an Autonomous Cow-Milking Robot Control System 1
2. Solar Energy Closes in on Cost-Effective Electricity 16
3. Space Station Program Faces EVA, Weight and Power Problems 32
4. Trends in Laser Development 43
5. The Aircraft Morphing Program 62
6. Lasers in Lithography: A Race Against Time 93
7. Optomechanics with LEGO 101
8. Miniature Micromechanical Device Modulates Laser 110
9. Laser Cooling Traps the Nobel Prize 116
10. Cars Drive Themselves at Automated Highway Demo 126
11. High-power Laser Beam Launches Fuel-less Craft 131
12. Liquid Crystals Display Brighter Colors 139
13. Hubble to Host Cosmic Origins Spectrography 154
14. Mechanisms of Light Scattering from Biological Cells Relevant to Noninvasive Optical-tissue Diagnostics 160
15. Small-business Research Funding Extolled before Congress 164
16. Holography in the United States 171
17. Biomorphic Systems Based on Smart Actuators 179
18. Portable Fluorometer Tracks Pollutants 202
19. Telescope Mirrors Successfully Lose Weight 208
20. Heart Patients Find New Hope in ransmyocardial Revascularization 218
21. Diamonds Turn Infrared Mirrors Smooth 228
22. Optical Data Communication: Fundamentals and Future Directions 238
23. Laser Micromachining Creates Precise 3-D Structures 293