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1 hr ago | Ubergizmo

Google Purchases Two Robots That Can Perform Gangnam Style Dance

We all know that the biggest Internet search giant in the world, Google, is cash rich, and many of the top management executives are millionaires in their own right due to the amount of stock that they hold , and so they can be "forgiven" if the company seems to spend cash in a frivolous manner from time to time.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Gadgets

5 hrs ago | Farmington Daily Times

'Futurama' goes on one last Bender

"Futurama's" general lot in life was underappreciation. Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's lovably nerdy cartoon series premiered in 1999 on Fox to mixed reviews and the afterglow of Groening's "Simpsons" success.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Futurama, Animated TV, Entertainment, Television, Science / Technology, John DiMaggio

9 hrs ago | MarketWatch

Matthew Lynn's London Eye: 5 ways to protect your career from the robots

Watch any old sci-fi movie, and the future is invariably depicted as a place full of helpful, hard-working robots, busying themselves with the household chores, while the humans sit around mixing cocktails and enjoying themselves.

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

13 hrs ago | R & D

Printing tiny batteries

The printed microbatteries could supply electricity to tiny devices in fields from medicine to communications, including many that have lingered on laboratory benches for lack of a battery small enough to fit the device, yet provide enough stored energy to power them.

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Related Topix: Hybrid, Electric Vehicle, Illinois, Entomology, Science, Science / Technology, Printers

14 hrs ago | Business Journal

Motoman acquires Texas robotics products firm

A local manufacturer has snatched up an Austin, Texas company. Miamisburg-based Motoman Robotics has acquired Agile Planet Inc., a developer of intelligent robotics software and hardware products engineered to improve the efficiency and functionality of industrial robots.

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Related Topix: Austin, TX, Robots, Science / Technology

Tue Jun 18, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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