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4 hrs ago | I programmer

A Swarm Of Humanoid Robots

You might think that this is just another attempt to squeeze a video of a group of dancing Nao robots into the pages of an otherwise completely serious magazine.

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5 hrs ago | South China Morning Post

Norbert Wiener warned in 1949 of the impact of computers and robots

Norbert Wiener, who once taught philosophy at Harvard, was one of the first visionaries to ponder and warn of the impact of 'thinking' machines on future societies.

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Related Topix: Computers, Science / Technology, Robots, Publishing, Media, New Times

9 hrs ago | USA Today

Student inventors graduate, pick up patents

Christopher Taylor won $20,000 last month from Georgia Tech's Inventure Prize competition to turn his designs for toys that wiggle around and roll away from Fido on their own accord into a Chris Taylor, a student at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, just won $20,000 in the school's invention competition to develope his line of robotic dog toys, called ... (more)

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Related Topix: Inventions, Science / Technology, Atlanta, GA, Georgia Tech, Rice University, Purdue University

10 hrs ago | The Gazette

Museum hopes 'Star Wars' exhibit draws thousands

Sit in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon Interactive Experience, perhaps in a front seat usually reserved for Han Solo or Chewbacca, and you won't be thrown into a deep space dogfight with Imperial TIE fighters.

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Related Topix: Star Wars, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Peter Mayhew, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Anthony Daniels, Science / Technology, Robots

14 hrs ago | Army Times

'Batwing' attachment adds new wrinkle to iRobot IED hunters

The modified 'batwing' design has tools to remotely defeat improvised explosive devices, including a hook for grabbing or cutting command wire, a rake for breaking up soil, and a spade for moving and digging up items.

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17 hrs ago | The Globe and Mail

Not all robot maids created equal: Roomba vs. Skooba

While the Roomba 650, left, can't vacuum as well as a human it'll save you time on a weekly basis.

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21 hrs ago | Grand Island Pennysaver

Lockport students visit SAL the Surgical Robot

Robotics students from Lockport's Emmet Belknap Intermediate School traveled to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center on Thursday for a visit with SAL the Surgical Robot.

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Fri May 24, 2013

CBS News

Can a floating robot save a polluted canal?

Pity the Gowanus Canal. A forgotten relic of Brooklyn's industrial past, the garbage-choked waterway is now home to a putrid stew of toxic waste.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Environment, Science, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Business Journal

Robots rise: sneak preview of 18 clever ones

As a child approaches "Romo," a small robot that combines a body on wheels with an iPhone for brains, the eyes of an animated face follow the child's face, a smile turning to an expression of alarm when the child gets "too close," and then back to a smile.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Skype, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, iPhone, San Francisco, CA

Business Journal

Robots on the big screen have ties to Kansas City entrepreneur

When "Man of Steel" premieres next month, a Kansas City-area robotics engineer may experience a sense of dA©jA vu.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, US Military, US Army, Celebrities, Matt Damon

Mashable

Customize and Code Your Own Robots With Linkbot

California-based company Barobo is all about robots . Their newest invention, Linkbot , is a modular robotic platform that lets you build and customize your own robot, block by block, like LEGOs .

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Science Daily

Perfect skin: More touchy-feely robots

Leading to better robotic platforms that could one day be used in industry, hospitals and even at home.

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Voice of America

Demand Grows for Global Ban on 'Killer Robots'

It may sound like something from a sci-fi movie - but campaigners say the threat is real and the robots already exist.

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Mashable

Listen to Daft Punk's New Album in 8-bit

If you haven't stopped listening to Daft Punk's new album Random Access Memories since its release, consider switching it up a bit.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Life, Fruits, Food

TMCnet

Will Your Call Center Training Include Robots?

We've all experienced it you've just arrived home and the last landline phone in your house is ringing.

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CBC News

3D printers give rise to 'desktop manufacturing'

Digital technologies such as 3D modeling software and 3D printers have grown cheap and accessible enough for ordinary people to make prototypes of objects that could, until recently, only be made by people who owned factories.

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Related Topix: Printers, Blog News

Thu May 23, 2013

KurzweilAI.net

Will robots social network when they eclipse man's intelligence?

In his book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology , futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that computers will be as smart as humans by 2029, and that by 2045, "computers will be billions of times more powerful than unaided human intelligence," Kurzweil wrote in an email to LiveScience .

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Mashable

This Telepresence Robot Is Powered By a Smartphone

What if you could have your smartphone greet customers while they're shopping in your store or have a tablet work as a babysitter? That's the idea behind R.bots Synergy SWAN, a telepresence robot with that works with any Android or iOS device.

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Fast Company

Our Robot Overlords Will Teach Us To Be More Productive, Better Collaborators

Win or lose, every business war story results in useful lessons learned. Entrepreneurs share practical takeaways from their own journeys to success.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Business News

World News Report

Connecticut Yankee Council says Scouts should accept gays

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