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Why Microsoft Entered the Robotics Market
FOXBusiness Microsoft didn't have its sights set on the robotics industry when the company was founded, but recent developments in the industry made the software giant a natural fit.
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Biomimetics Plus An Electronic Cerebellum Equals Robo Habilis
Submitted by News Account on 23 July 2008 - 4:00am. Technology SENSOPAC, an EU-funded project whose goal is to create a robotic arm, hand and brain with human-like physical and cognitive capabilities, is ...
Where are all the Robots? Lauren Covello FOXBusiness If Hollywood has taught us anything over the years, it's to believe in a future of walking, talking robots.
New Driver Monitor Can Tell Teens When They're Taking Too Many Risks
A new computerized monitor for teenage drivers audibly tells them when they're driving too fast, or taking other risky chances behind the wheel.
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Robots developed that drive themselves up the wall
Pic courtesy BBC News . July 23, 2008 Scientists in the US have developed robots that are capable of climbing walls.
Robot to help cops in dangerous cases
Student and team leader Fady Khaled cuddles his creation "Nova 5" an unmanned robot that he along with other students created and solved what they call the "holy Grail" of robotics.
Female fashion-bot - the real Japan
New robot poses like a fashion model - Kyodo - ABC News - 22 July . The Robot Research Institute at the New Industry Research Organisation hopes the robot will be used for fashion and other promotional events ...
Futuristic Design Drives 'Giant Robots in a Lazy River' Project
What the heck is it? Architect Travis Ingersall calls the hypothetical building complex pictured above "Neo-Natural Superscapes." Translation: the robot-powered casino / hotel / water park would be built from ...
A robot fashion model has been demonstrated by the Robot Research Institute in Kobe in western Japan.
Another view: Roboticist Noel Sharkey on Wall-E
I don't believe in the idea of independent thinking robots. Artificial intelligence is about making machines that can appear intelligent to humans, but they are not self-aware. I've been working in artificial ...
Love in the age of the slutbot
Oscar Wilde once lamented the difficulties of "the love that dare not speak its name". Little did he know that a century later it would be more of a concern trying to find a love that would, even for the barest ...
RE2 wins Phase II Us Navy Sbir to Develop Dexterous Manipulation System for Mobile Robot Platforms
Pittsburgh, PA July 15, 2008 RE2, Inc., a leading developer of intelligent modular manipulation systems, announced today that it has been competitively awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research ...
'WALL-E': Conservative critique of modernity
Conservatives love to complain about Hollywood liberalism, but most of the political films that shuffle through the cineplexes are standard-issue leftie hackwork that neither persuade nor succeed.
Simulation Reduces Costs And Risks For Rts Flexible Systems
The company's world-leading intelligent vision system combines with Visual Components simulation software to help the packaging systems maker optimise design, increase product performance, and accelerate ...
Robots: Modular and Reconfigurable Robots
The latest episode of the Robots podcast features interviews with two experts in self-reconfiguring and modular robotics.
Want a Robot? You Might Need a Raise, First
Lauren Covello FOXBusiness Sometimes hiring a personal assistant is just not enough.
$7000 Vstone Blackox Robot Toy Steps Out of the Darkness
Is this the gadget/toy that will bring about the final Robot Uprising? While not the most benign design that one would expect we must be careful of its movements and keep our collective eye on it.
City eyes manufacturing niche by teaching robotics to HS studes
Sunday, July 20, 2008 City eyes manufacturing niche by teaching robotics to HS studes By Katrina A. Balmaceda Sun.Star Correspondent LIANA Villa may be just be a high school junior, but her interest in science ...
European Researchers Developing Touchy-Feely Robots
European researchers are developing software that they hope will one day make it possible for a robot to learn when a person is sad, happy, or angry.
iRobot Reveals Findings of National Survey on at-Home Work-Life Balance at Blogging Convention
Nancy Smith, 430-3323 nsmith@irobot.com or Edelman for iRobot Corp. Melanie Muccio, 704-8209 melanie.muccio@edelman.com Americans are more concerned than ever about the time they spend working inside their ...