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3 hrs ago | EDGE

Mind to Machine: Can Brains Outlive Bodies?

Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity's best brains - and a few robots - in New York City on Saturday to discuss how humans can get their minds to outlive their bodies.

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Related Topix: Robots, Inventions

4 hrs ago | ComputerWorld

NASA needs help hunting down killer asteroids

NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them and it wants your help doing it.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Space, Robots

8 hrs ago | Michigan Radio

Google and Ford have cars driven by robots, but will cars think for themselves someday?

The company does robotic testing on vehicles for durability at the Michigan Proving Grounds in Romeo, according to a recent story from MLive.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, Google+, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Robots, Science / Technology, Michigan

12 hrs ago | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Carnegie Mellon's robot 'Zoe' on mission to desert, then Mars

If there is one place on Earth that is analogous to Mars, it is Chile's hyper-arid, relatively lifeless Atacama Desert.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA

16 hrs ago | TreeHugger

Harvard is building robotic cockroaches

The art and science of biomimicry teaches us to find solutions to our problems by looking at what nature has come up with to solve similar problems.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Entomology, Science

20 hrs ago | Tech Review

Flying Robots

I don't use the word "drone," which originally referred to remotely piloted planes used for anti-aircraft target practice and is now closely associated with long-range surveillance and strike vehicles operated by the military .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Agriculture, Science

22 hrs ago | SFGate

UMass Lowell team wins NASA robotics contest

School officials say the team designed a robot that they operated with a remote control to test its durability and precision on a terrain that mimicked another planet's surface.

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Related Topix: UMass Lowell, Science / Technology, NASA, Robots

Mon Jun 17, 2013

The Hartford Courant

Flush with orders, aerospace industry retools for future

As airplane makers gathered outside Paris to show off their newest high-tech jetliners on Monday, a less-heralded technology story was unfolding back home on the factory floors of the world's leading aerospace firms.

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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 737, Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A320, Ansonia, CT

ComputerWorld

Now, a robot with nine lives

Swiss scientists have created a cat-like robot with the stability and agility to one day be used in search-and-rescue missions.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

The Atlantic

Will the Robots Steal Your Paycheck? BREAKING: They Already Have ...

A new study finds that labor's share of the world's income is plunging, and suggests the technology boom is to blame.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, US Politics, US News

Canada Online Explorer

Scientists develop robot that runs like a cat

Artist's rendering by Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology of Lausanne released on June 17, 2013 of the "cheetah-cub robot."

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

New Statesman

Basic income versus the robots

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the idea of a citizen's income : the state replacing the vast majority of the benefit system with one cash payment made to everyone, regardless of employment or income.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Science Daily

People attribute minds to robots, corpses that are targets of harm

Now, new research suggests that victimization may be one condition that leads us to perceive minds in others, even in entities we don't normally think of as having minds.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Harvard University

SlashGear.com

Ford using robots to stress test new vehicles

Vehicles being driven by robots is nothing new. We've seen that in Google's self-driving cars, as well as prototypes from Lexus and Audi .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

R & D

A robot that runs like cat

Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL's four-legged "cheetah-cub robot" has the same advantages as its model: It is small, light and fast.

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The Clarion-Ledger

Ford puts robots behind the wheel

When the going gets tough, get a robot. That was Ford's thinking years ago when development of ever-tougher trucks demanded testing the prototypes on ever-tougher test tracks.

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Related Topix: Ford, Ford F-150, Truck, Science / Technology, Robots

KRCR

Study: Only 5% of us wash our hands properly

George Carlin once said, "I don't automatically wash my hands every time I go to the bathroom.

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Related Topix: Michigan State University, Science / Technology

Gizmag

Japanese robots make a stink about bad breath, body odor

Kaori-chan, a female robot, can smell your breath and responds based on a four point scale Have you got a case of dog breath? How about smelly feet? Friends and family may not tell you, but a couple of new robots will.

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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology, Halitosis, Health, Gadgets

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Mashable

Ford Uses Robots For New Durability Tests

Ford announced its durability testing methods will now employ the help of robotic steering technology.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Reuters

Snake robots slither to the rescue

Wells Fargo's Walter Price says analysts aren't giving Google enough credit for growth in its mobile and video businesses and says the stock holds more opportunity than rival internet giant Yahoo.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Weather, Carnegie Mellon University

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