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1 hr ago | How Stuff Works

Robot Tidies Up a Room: DNews Nuggets

A Very Tidy Robot: Guests are arriving in 20 minutes, you're not dressed and the place is a mess.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

5 hrs ago | Cinema Blend News

Jetpack Joyride Adds Robot Dog Flash

Halfbrick Studios has updated their side-scroller Jetpack Joyride with another set of new content.

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Thu May 24, 2012

Daily Mail

From 'Class Genius' to building robots: How Priscilla Chan's yearbook ...

High school yearbook photographs of the 27-year-old, who exchanged vows with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 28, last Saturday, have surfaced.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

RobAid

Robots who tidy up your room learning to handle new objects

Researchers in Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab have developed a new algorithm which enables a robot to rely on its artificial intelligence to look at a group of objects instead recognizing single objects placed in front of its sensors.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Science, Computer Science

Ubergizmo

Samsung applies patent for speech-recognizing robot

Apple has their Siri, and Samsung now has the S Voice, but does the South Korean conglomerate intend to stop there where voice recognition technology is concerned? Apparently not, as it seems as though Samsung has recently filed a patent application for a speech recognizing robot.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Gadgets

KSFO AM 560

Deaf 10-Year-Old Regains Hearing with Cochlear Implant

The sound of Sammie Hicks's own breathing moved her to tears three weeks ago. That's because it was the first time she ever heard it.

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Related Topix: Audiology, Medicine, Collin County, TX

Science Daily

Robots will quickly recognize and respond to human gestures, with new algorithms

Researchers at A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore have created a computer program which recognizes human gestures quickly and accurately, and requires very little training.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Science, Computer Science, Computers

Science News

Bacterial trick keeps robots in sync

Sending information to and from an outside server keeps these robots in sync and even allows an out-of-step robot to rejoin the group.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Patch.com

Inside the Future of Tech at Branford Schools

A Chief Technology Officer Clint Kennedy has a vision for Branford schools. He spent at least eight months preparing for his brainchild, the months-in-the-making technology expo "Building Bridges: Taking Tech Home," at Francis Walsh Intermediate School .

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Related Topix: Branford, CT, Family, Kids, Science / Technology, Robots, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT

Mashable

Bubble Robots Move Using Lasers [VIDEO]

This isn't your typical artificial intelligence robot, but scientists at the University of Hawaii have created bubble "robots" that can be directed using lasers.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Science, Computer Science, World Records

Science Teacher

According to Phil: A Young Thinker's Guide to Robots

This book represents a mix between a non-fiction reference book and an activity guide.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Wed May 23, 2012

TIME.com

How Insect-Inspired Legs Could Help Robots Walk on Asteroids

James Cameron created a Titanic -sized stir when he invested in Planetary Resources Inc., an asteroid mining operation co-chaired by personal spaceflight pioneers Peter Diamandis and Eric Anderson.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Entomology, History Movies, Titanic, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Science, Celebrities, James Cameron, Search Engines, Emerging Technology

Hollywood Reporter

Universal to Develop Movie Based on Lego 'Hero Factory' Robots

Michael Finch and Alex Litvak , best known for writing 2010's sci-fi hit Predators , are in negotiations to pen the script for the project, which would be produced by Mark Gordon along with Ben Forkner and Dean Schnider of Film 360, the production side of representation firm Management 360.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Entertainment

KQED

Get Ready For The First Robot President

While American politicians may be scripted, they're not this robotic. But whoever wins the presidency this year will preside over a U.S. economy where automation is becoming increasingly important.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Bill Clinton, History in the News, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, New York, Mitt Romney

Inhabitat

Robo-Fish: The Robotic Fish Designed To Detect Pollution

While harbors and ports around the world are crucial to global trade, the industrial activities are often responsible for high levels of pollution and water contamination .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

TreeHugger

Robot To Wash Solar Panels Among Winning Student Inventions

Students took home $200,000 in prizes for green ideas at an awards ceremony recently held at California Institute of Technology for a Department of Energy competition.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Inventions, California Institute of Technology, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

PSFK

Foldable Robots Inspired By The Art Of Origami

Engineers at Purdue University have created robot-like mechanisms that are able to morph into different shapes.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Origami, Science / Technology, Robots, Purdue University

Marion Star

Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee visited RobotWorx on...

Marion's efforts to create a robotics hub are getting recognized as work continues toward building a training center at Tri-Rivers Career Center.

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Related Topix: Ohio State University, Science / Technology, Robots, Marion, OH

Customer Interaction Solutions

QUAN Contacts New Robotics Targets

International Corp. , an emerging robotics company, announced today that it has begun contacting a new list of robotics targets regarding potential joint ventures and other cooperation agreements.

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Related Topix: Inventions, Science / Technology, Robots, Medtronic, Medicine, Medical Equipment, Healthcare Industry

Tue May 22, 2012

Field & Stream

Scientists Develop Robot Fish to Improve Pollution Monitoring

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Related Topix: Environment, Science, Science / Technology, Robots

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