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1 hr ago | The Guardian

It ain't what you do, it's the way that you get a robot to do it

When the robots rise up against us, I'm not sure we're going to put up much of a fight.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, The, Video Games, Deep Silver, Kinect, Microsoft Game Studios, X360, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft, Startups

5 hrs ago | The Campbell Reporter

Cassidy: SRI International is an innovation powerhouse trying to rise ...

When Intel worried years ago that its marvelous innovation wasn't being noticed by consumers-at-large, it launched the ubiquitous "Intel Inside" campaign.

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Related Topix: Technical Services, SRI International, Non-Profit, Google, Startups, Apple, Science / Technology, Anaheim, CA

9 hrs ago | Daily Reporter

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, Robots, Science / Technology

13 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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Related Topix: Science / Technology

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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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology

17 hrs ago | 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: Robots, Science / Technology, Environment, Science, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Fri May 24, 2013

Brad Ideas

Betterplace dies -- how do you make an electric robotic taxi fleet?

But I do believe in the idea of the self-driving electric taxi as the best answer for our future urban transportation.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

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

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: Robots, Science / Technology, 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 d ©j vu.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Kansas City, MO, Robots

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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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

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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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology

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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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology

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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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

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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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Thu May 23, 2013

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: Robots, Science / Technology, Business News

MSNBC

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords

Robots are simply more efficient than humans at certain tasks. They already excel at building cars, exploring distant planets and hunting for explosives, but it turns out that robots might also evolve much faster than their flesh-and-blood counterparts.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Cornell University, US News, Liberal Political News

Gizmag

Acrobatic XRL robot takes cliffs and valleys in its stride

Most land-dwelling animals with skeletons have the ability to jump. It is of particular importance to survival, as running primarily consists of a long series of jumps.

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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Gadgets

Animal

Daft Punk's Music Box Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Robots

I was never a Daft Punk fan until Random Access Memories , and it had to do with a shallow perception of the band as gimmick musicians: robot masks, huge waiting periods between albums , a unified aesthetic that didn't ring genuine, but as carefully branded as a corporate logo.

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Related Topix: Electronic, Daft Punk, Science / Technology

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