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2 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: Science / Technology, Robots, Science, Computer Science

6 hrs ago | Broward-Palm Beach

Four Bots for a Brewtopia: Beer Drones, Robo-taps, and More

See, the government isn't spying on us. They're bringing us refreshing beers. The camera? Umm, an easier way to take selfies? Terminator , Robocop and Transformers : what do these movies all have in common? They don't tell us how robots will bring us beer, and that's just damn rude.

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Tue Jun 18, 2013

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

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

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, Science / Technology, 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, Science / Technology, Robots, Michigan

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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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: Science / Technology, Robots, 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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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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ECNmag

A robot that runs like a cat

Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL's 4-legged 'cheetah-cub robot' has the same advantages as its model: It is small, light and fast Even though it doesn't have a head, you can still tell what kind of animal it is: the robot is definitely modeled upon a cat.

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The Indian Express

Scientist develops body-double robot

A Japanese scientist has developed a body-double robot which resembles him closely, with tiny human-like movements and blinking eyes.

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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: Science / Technology, Robots, 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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Robots.net

Has Your Robot Driven a Ford Lately?

While other companies are working to develop fully autonomous vehicles, Ford has been working on a slightly different problem.

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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

Autoblog

Ford using robot drivers to test durability [w/video]

In testing the durability of its upcoming fullsize Transit vans , Ford has begun using autonomous robotic technology to pilot vehicles through the punishing courses of its Michigan Proving Grounds test facility.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Cameras, Romeo, MI, Autos

WMBD-TV Peoria

Medical Community Holds Robot Symposium in Peoria

Medical professionals from all over the region came to a robotics symposium Saturday at the Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center, where experts talked about the pros and cons of robotic surgery.

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Related Topix: Peoria, IL, Science / Technology, Robots