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7 min ago | Fox News

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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8 hrs ago | Scientific Blogging

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 ...

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Wed Jul 23, 2008

Fox News

Where are all the Robots?

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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Business News

KSDK NewsChannel 5

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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Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Gadgets

Canoe

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.

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News.3Yen.com

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 ...

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Tue Jul 22, 2008

Wired News

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 ...

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Science Fiction in the News

Robot Fashion Models

A robot fashion model has been demonstrated by the Robot Research Institute in Kobe in western Japan.

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Guardian Unlimited

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 ...

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

Mon Jul 21, 2008

The Age

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 ...

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Related Topix: Online Dating, World News, Russia, Asia, Computers, Science / Technology, Robots

Shephard.co.uk

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 ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, US Military, US Navy

East Valley Tribune

'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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Sun Jul 20, 2008

M2.com

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 ...

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Robots.net

Robots: Modular and Reconfigurable Robots

The latest episode of the Robots podcast features interviews with two experts in self-reconfiguring and modular robotics.

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Fox News

Want a Robot? You Might Need a Raise, First

Lauren Covello FOXBusiness Sometimes hiring a personal assistant is just not enough.

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Related Topix: University of California System, UC Berkeley, Science / Technology, Robots

Sat Jul 19, 2008

Wired News

$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.

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Sun-Star Cebu

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 ...

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InformationWeek

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.

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Related Topix: Union (University of South Carolina System), University of South Carolina System, Science / Technology, Robots

Fri Jul 18, 2008

PR-inside.com

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 ...

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Related Topix: Marketing, Blog News, Science / Technology, Robots

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