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CEO of iRobot Corp. Colin M Angle sells 56,000 shares of IRBT on 11/04/2009 at an average price of $14.02 a share.

There was some objection to my post Is Robo Habilis a gateway to Intelligence? to the effect that it might take a lot of extra time to build the robots, and that would lengthen the time necessary to develop AI.

The Collective Imagination is designed to explore some of the most compelling issues facing the world today and the ways that science and technology can help us address them.

The ease with which human beings make sense of their environment through a range of sensory signals belies the complex processing involved.

The donated robot will be demonstrated at the seminar in a presentation on robotic vision capabilities.

We are constantly inundated with new information, and to manage it effectively it's sometimes necessary to forget old, irrelevant memories.

It looks like a scene from Robocop or one of the Terminator movies: A human steps into a sleek robot suit and is miraculously transformed, suddenly capable of astonishing feats of strength.

Participants controlled either 4, 8, or 12 robots. In the fulltask control condition participants both dictated the robots' paths and controlled their cameras to search for victims.

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

What happens when good robots go - bad'? Study says home bots could be hacked by some with not-good intentions Robots are "little computers and in some cases, little mobile computers with webcams," says Tamara Denning, lead author of a study about potential robot dangers when control of the bots falls into the wrong hands.

Roboticists are letting robots learn all of the secret ways that human beings share information with each other.

Jerome GroopA man writes in The New Yorker about Maja MatariA and the quest to creA ate robots that can help peoA ple through therA apy.

Who he is: CTO of Heartland Robotics Inc., which aims to do for manual labor with robotics what the PC did for office work.

THE world's first Arabic-speaking robot has been built for mass deployment to work in shopping malls.

This is a participant in the study using a speech learning robotic device. Credit: David Ostry, Yale University, Haskins Lab Learning to talk also changes the way speech sounds are heard, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research ...

Recent years have seen the development of a significant personal robot market beyond just toys, although even in entertainment robots , there has been substantial improvement over the wind-up robots of the past.

DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday have acquired, in a pre-emptive deal, the rights to Daniel H. Wilson's unpublished manuscript, Robopocalypse , it was announced today by Mark Sourian and Holly Bario, Co-Presidents of Production at the studio, and Jason Kaufman, Executive Editor and Vice President, at Doubleday.

Foresight's mission is essentially an educational one.A In simplest terms we are here to point out foreseeable technological developments that not only will make the future different from the past, but make it different in ways that aren't obvious and which everyone isn't already planning for.

Dancing isna t a new trait for modern robots, yet mimicking all those grooves that the human body can manage isna t all that easy for the mechanical-human wannabes.

"Astro Boy" movie trailer Genre: Animation, Children's, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Drama Cast: Voices of Freddie Highmore as Astro Boy; Kristen Bell as Cora; Nicolas Cage as Dr.