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6 min ago | 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

4 hrs ago | 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

5 hrs ago | 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

8 hrs ago | 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

10 hrs ago | 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

10 hrs ago | 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

11 hrs ago | 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

14 hrs ago | 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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16 hrs ago | 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

17 hrs ago | 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

18 hrs ago | 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

USA Today

Snake robots slither to the rescue Snake robots slither to the rescue ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are using snakes as a model for a series of robots that will having capabilities ranging from search and rescue operations to medical applications.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Carnegie Mellon University

Entrepreneur Magazine

Startups and Investors Bet on the Drone Economy

Entrepreneurs and investors are betting on a future full of flying robots that can be programmed to do anything from survey crops or wildlife to delivering vaccines to remote villages in Africa.

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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology, US News, Federal Aviation Administration

The Guardian

The future of everything: book your ticket to FutureFest's world of ideas

The idea of a "festival of the future" has an interesting history. Go back to the Great Exhibition of 1851, and alongside the giant Koh-i-Noor diamond and mountains of impressive imperial produce, you find some intriguing harbingers of the next century and a half.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Inventions

SFGate

Russian tycoon wants to move mind to machine

Russian billionaire Dmitry Itskov speaks to the Global Future 2045 Congress, Saturday, June 15, 2013 at Lincoln Center in New York.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Automotive News

Robots take the wheel for Ford road tests

Making sure vehicles are "built Ford tough" has become too tough on the test drivers whose job involves putting thousands of bone-jarring, teeth-rattling, mind-numbing miles on new models.

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Related Topix: Ford F-150, Ford, Truck, Robots, Science / Technology, Automakers, Ford Motor, Detroit, MI

Forbes.com

Researchers Build A Robot That Will Beat You At Air Hockey

Researchers at Japan's Chiba University have built a robot that's capable of playing air hockey.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Brandon Sun

Immortality by 2045 or bust: Russian tycoon wants to transfer minds to machines

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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