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But the company also has an excellent Scooba series of robots that wash your floor with detergent and water.

Listen to this three-piece with your eyes closed and it could be any group of musicians plucking a guitar, twinkling on an electric keyboard, or beating a drum.

STUDENTS from five schools in and around Malvern and Worcester spent the day at QinetiQ in a bid to inspire the next generation of engineers, scientists and technologists.

ROBOTS have created quite a bit of noise in the technology industry this past week, from a Lego autobot that aims to solve a Rubik's Cube in record time, to computer powered ping pong playing machines and even "soft" robotic fish that replicate the movements of real sea life .

"What is incredible about these accusations is they are not coming from Senator Ron 'Privacy is important' Wyden or Senator Rand 'Don't kill me with a flying robot' Paul," Stewart said.

James Zink of Rochester programs a robot to perform the most efficient procedure of spot welding using a weld application for the Robotics 2400 course at Oakland Community College in Auburn Hills on Wednesday March 5, 2014.

ROBOTS are no longer stuff of science fiction. They're here and they want our jobs.

Speaking at Washington, D.C., economic think tank The American Enterprise Institute on Thursday , Gates said than within 20 years, a lot of jobs will go away, replaced by software automation .

New Rochelle, NY, March 13, 2014-A soft-bodied, self-contained robotic fish with a flexible spine that allows it to mimic the swimming motion of a real fish also has the built-in agility to perform escape maneuvers.

If you ever wanted proof that the more robotics can mimic nature, the more realistic , and effective they'll be, look no further than the remarkable soft-tissue robot fish from MIT graduate student Andrew Marchese, which can apparently turn and swim away as well as a real fish.

SCHA is the first Jewish Day School to purchase the NAO humanoid robot. Southern Connecticut Hebrew Academy, located in Orange, CT is integrating the NAO robots into its technology program, designed to promote the use of technology as a learning tool and facilitate the development of academic skills.

I AM in Jochen Steil's lab, grasping a segmented, whiplashing tentacle that resists and tries to push me away.

Soft robots-which don't just have soft exteriors, but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels-have become a sufficiently popular research topic that they now have their own journal, Soft Robotics .

No job is sacred any more: Even the technology trade show booth babe's role has been taken over by robots.

Second graders at Elmore Elementary School in Houston met with Buster the School Bus, a three-foot by two-foot by two-foot robotic school bus produced by Robotronics to learn about school bus safety.

Jonathan Bland is a student at Evansville Lutheran who's a cancer survivor. He is now attending his classes thanks to a robot.

Mobile robots and "smart" computers are threatening to replace up to half the U.S. workforce within the next decade or two, according to a Bloomberg report .

Are robots destined to beat humans at everything ? Maybe not or at least not yet.

The creators of the Roboy robot wanted it to move as much like a human as possible, using a skeleton of 3D-printed bones and joints, tendons -- and coiled springs in muscles.

The mechanical robot is no longer the main event in the robotics revolution, warns David Manners.