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1 hr ago | Slashdot

Will Robots Take Over the Data Center?

What might a robot-controlled 'lights-out' data center look like? The racks will be taller, as robotics systems can reach higher to manage servers.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

4 hrs ago | Whittier Daily News

Deep-space pizza parties? NASA mulls 3-D printers for food

NASA can send robots to Mars, no problem. But if it's ever going to put humans on the Red Planet, it has to figure out how to feed them over the course of a years-long mission.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Space, Robots, Life, Food, Recipes

4 hrs ago | How Stuff Works

Evolution Helps Build Better Robots

This virtual robot evolved to move as quickly as possible using four types of tissue: soft support tissue, bone and two types of muscle.

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8 hrs ago | RedOrbit

Fire Ants Help Researchers Work Towards Better...

While ants can spoil a picnic, and fire ants are despised for their painful bites, the tiny creatures are masters at tunneling, and this expertise could be put to good use.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

10 hrs ago | KMIZ

Robot exoskeleton suits to make us superhuman

If you've been dreaming of strapping on your own "Iron Man" armor, you might have to wait a while longer.

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14 hrs ago | The Rio Times

Brazil Militarizes Borders Ahead of Cup

The Ministry of Defense in Brazil is sending 25,000 soldiers to patrol its borders in an unprecedented military operation to shore up security at next month's Confederations Cup.

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Related Topix: US Navy, Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration, Science / Technology

Tue May 21, 2013

Reuters

Cheetah robot - a model of speed and efficiency

Wells Fargo's Walter Price says analysts aren't giving Google enough credit for growth in its mobile and video businesses and says the stock holds more opportunity than rival internet giant Yahoo.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Weather

Science Daily

A tiny programmable fly's eye

Compared to single-lens eyes, compound eyes offer lower resolution, but significantly larger fields of view, thin package, and with negligible distortion.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Science, Science / Technology

MSNBC

I Hate fire ants. I have been attacked twice.

Researchers believe new findings about the curious locomotion of fire ants could give engineers lessons for building automated search-and-rescue robots designed to hunt for human victims trapped underground.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Entomology, Science, Georgia Tech, US News, Liberal Political News

Patch.com

RHS Wins Robotics Competition

The following was sent by the Ridgewood Public Schools. The RHS Robotics Team competed in the annual Botball Competition on May 11 at Rahway High School.

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Related Topix: Ridgewood, NJ, Science / Technology, Robots

Hedonistica

WTF Did I Just Watch?: Strangling A Robotic Dinosaur To See If People Empathize With Robot Pain

This is the video shown to participants in a study conducted by the University of Duisburg-Essen to determine if humans feel empathy towards tortured robots .

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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology

Sight and Sound

The digital deluge: Tribeca 2013

On the rise at New York's downtown film festival this year: post-Hurricane Sandy transmedia, robot documentarists, Vine, lolcats, Facebook-chat reconstructions, a crowd-boggled Paul Verhoeven, cross-format histories from the archive, a smearily digitised Charles Lane rediscoverya and three 35mm celluloid blasts from the past.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy, Robots, Science / Technology, Paul Verhoeven, Opinion

The Atlantic

Disconcerting Robot Detects Depression

The latest "virtual therapist" -- charged with helping diagnose depression -- comes from psychologist Albert Rizzo and computer scientist Louis-Philippe Morency at the University of Southern California .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, University of Southern California

Bit-tech.net

Arduino YAon and Robot Kit announced

The Arduino Robot Kit is joined by the Arduino YAon, the group's answer to the flexibility of the Raspberry Pi for electronics enthusiasts.

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Related Topix: Robots, Computers, Wireless, Emerging Technology

Mon May 20, 2013

Newswise

Ant Study Could Help Future Robot Teams Work Underground

Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.

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

Scientific Computing/Instrument.

Robots Learn Proper Handoff, Follow Digitized Human Examples

A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion thanks to a new method developed by scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh in a project partially funded by the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of ... (more)

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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, World News, Germany,

Examiner.com

Outspoken tech pioneer still playing games

He has made and lost tech fortunes in less time than it takes most people to complete a college degree.

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Related Topix: Steve Jobs, Apple, Startups, Science / Technology

The Republic

Daft Punk goes outside comfort zone for new album

The influential French electronic duo crafted its first film score, for "Tron: Legacy," three years ago and are now releasing a well-financed, smartly hyped pop album featuring what they call an ensemble cast of contemporary singers and veteran musicians.

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Related Topix: Daft Punk, Electronic, Science / Technology, Disco, Chic

TechEBlog

3 Awesome Robots That Can Probably Run Faster Than You

We have seen the future of robots, and they'll probably run faster than you. Whether it be pneumatic muscles, a biometric design, or even one that can hit 28.3mph, a tad faster than Usain Bolt's top speed during his record-setting 100m dash, these robots are definitely conversation pieces.

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The China Post

Mainland China police billions spell profit opportunity

Mannequins in riot gear, armored cars and drones line a police equipment and "anti-terrorism technology" trade fair in Beijing as vendors seek to profit from China's huge internal security budget.

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