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At Wednesday night's School Committee meeting, the Tewksbury Memorial High School Robotics Club was recognized by the board, and gave a brief demonstration of their frisbee-throwing robot.

In the opening scene of the movie " Robot & Frank ," which takes place in the near future, Frank, an elderly man who lives alone, is arguing with his son about going to a medical center for Alzheimer's treatment when the son interrupts him.

Brazil has added 30 US military robots to the Israeli drones and 'Robocop-style' glasses with face recognition cameras to its arsenal after the country allocated $900 million to make 2014 World Cup "one of the most protected sports events in history." The 30 PackBot 510 units, which usually cost between $100,000 and $200,000 apiece, will arrive in ... (more)

IT MIMICS the leaping glides of flying fish and needs no external power. The Jump Glider could be the first in a new generation of robots, harnessing aerodynamic lift to travel further than it would if it simply hopped, and without using additional energy.

Russia Developing `Terrorist-Killer Robots' MOSCOW, May 17 - Russian experts are developing robots designed to minimize casualties in terrorist attacks and neutralize terrorists, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.

There were girls flying paper airplanes in the hallways, sending marbles down roller-coaster tracks they built and controlling a humongous robot while having fun all day Saturday.

Jim Rothrock of Wunderkammer Laboratory has built an autonomous robot for a NASA competition to develop technology that can retrieve rock samples on Mars, which would then be returned to Earth.

In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each.

Flying cars, meals in pill form, robot overlords - many attempts to predict the future turn out predictably wrong.

This flying robot seems pretty creepy. Not only can it fly around, it can attach itself to walls like some sort of flying lizard.

Via FreeIO.org comes news of a new open hardware robot: the official Arduino Robot .

ROBOTS which sing and dance, read books and sense feelings are being used to support people with dementia and their care givers.

After a hard day's work you hit a pub to find a little reprieve but the busy bartender delays the drink, it can be extremely distressing.

From the explosion in popularity of language learning apps like Mindsnacks to the media furor about the rise of massive open online courses , companies are being built around the idea that technology can radically reshape our relationship with education.

Chatham High School 's robotics team recently took second place in the Panasonic Robotic Competition at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

These two robots totally love each other. Occasionally, they can't stand each other.

MUCH is celebrating the long weekend with one of movie and TV's freshest actors ever.

In Islip accident on Rt 111 / Wheeler Rd SB at Southern State Pky/Heckscher Pky.

The event was hosted by Infinity Park. It teaches businesses like Gamma Two Robotics how to market their products internationally.

With a summer movie season already crowded with big superheroes, you'd have to be a giant robot or monster to vie for attention.