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44 min ago | MAKE

Intern's Corner: Making Makey's 'stretchy' body in Inventor

When designing Makey the Robot for MAKE, Volume 19 , I ran into a problem that plagues all kinds of designers -- how to continually redesign a body to accommodate changes in whatever's crammed inside it? Once I'd sketched out Makey's configuration and modeled the major parts in Autodesk Inventor 3D modeling software, I really got into some of ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Inventions

Sat Nov 07, 2009

F&M Magazine

ARC Specialties and Lincoln Electric to Host Robotics Seminar

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

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Houston Metro

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Technology Review Feed v2.1

Blog - Absent-minded Robots Remember What Matters

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

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Vanderbilt University, Cambridge, MA

Jerusalem Post

World's first Arabic speaking robot constructed in UAE

Owners of robots who have felt frustrated by their humanoid companions' inability to say marhaban, ma salama, shukran and mabrook may soon be able to end their suffering.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts

Thu Nov 05, 2009

MSNBC

What happens when good robots go a bada ?

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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Computers, University of Washington, Computer Security

Science Fiction in the News

Robots Taught Human Communication Secrets

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

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Related Topix: Robots

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Gizmowatch

Toyota Delivery Robot is one heck of a helper at home

Toyota has developed a Delivery Robot, especial to aid people with limited mobility, but that doesna t mean you and I cannot avail its benefits.

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Snarkmarket

The soul of a new machine

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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Mass High Tech

MHT All-Star Rodney Brooks: Roots of an industry

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

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Related Topix: PC, Science / Technology, Robots, Science, Computer Science, Australia, Oceania, World News,

Customer Interaction Solutions

Personal Robot Sales to Exceed $5 Billion by 2015, According to ABI 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.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

DVD Dungeon

DreamWorks Acquires Robopocalypse

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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

The Age

Robots primed for 'are you being served' role

A laboratory in the UAE has built what it says is the world's first Arabic-speaking robot which could soon go into mass production to serve as staff in shopping malls.

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Related Topix: Travel, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates Travel, United Arab Emirates Travel, World News, Middle East, United Arab Emirates

Gizmowatch

Stable whole-body motion lets robots dance with the hips

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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Mon Nov 02, 2009

EETimes.com

MIT develops AI-based 'driving buddy'

MIT researchers are collaborating with Volkswagen and Audi to develop an AI-based "driving buddy" that could help motorists avoid traffic jams or remind them to fill an empty gas tank.

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

Valley News Dispatch

Futurists wary of smart robots

Scientists are preparing to publish a report this month that examines, in part, whether robots could eventually become so smart they pose a threat to society.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Science, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Computers, Pittsburgh Metro

Gadgetism.org

What's Your Favorite Google Wave Gadget?

Gadgetism.org > What's Your Favorite Google Wave Gadget?>> SUSE Linux Enterprise ... [ SUSE Linux Enterprise in the Americas ] The crux of Google Wave is the extensions/apps or what Google Wave is calling "Gadgets" . Embeds and robots will have their place, but most likely not for the common user.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Open Source Software, Science / Technology, Linux, Robots, Blog News

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Huntington News

Beck at the Movies: 'Astro Boy': Japanese Anime Goes on Big Screen

First made popular in Japanese manga and animes, "Astro Boy" finally gets the big screen treatment.

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Related Topix: Astro Boy, Science / Technology, Robots

GlobeNewswire

Adept Technology Announces Adept Quattro Robot Breaks 300 Cycle Per Minute Barrier

Adept Technology, Inc. , a leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, today announced its Adept Quattro Robot has broken the 300 cycle per minute barrier.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Robots, Startups, Adept Technology, Marketing

Sat Oct 31, 2009

World News from Times Online

The robot on track to be grandmother's little helper

It has suction cups instead of hands, two sets of tank-tracks instead of feet, and is strong enough to carry an adult up a steep flight of stairs.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Family, Elderly

Fri Oct 30, 2009

News.com.au

It's now a real thing

Activelink chief engineer Go Shirogauchi wearing the robotic exoskeleton inspired by Aliens / Activelink Construction robot inspired by Aliens Research being funded by Panasonic More: Technology news and reviews JAPANESE engineers have taken us one step closer to the robot revolution by developing a machine inspired by the movie Aliens .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Horror Movies, Short, Aliens, Thriller, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Sigourney Weaver

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