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Steven van Hemert has glimpsed the future, and it's pretty bright if the use of robots make tedious chores so much fun iRobot Roomba Automatic Vacuum Cleaner At what point does one's concept of the future become real? With technology advancing aggressively towards some undefined goal, it's easy to believe that "the future" will forever be ...

Created by researchers at University of Sheffield and the Bristol Robotics Lab, SCRATCHbot uses whiskers as part of their effort to create biologically-inspired artificial intelligence systems.

The routine use of this first commercial robot assistant culminates the process of investigation, development, technology transfer and the marketing of this robot.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , one of the most critically reviled major films in recent memory, nearly caught The Dark Knight for the biggest five-day opening in history.

HP today announced the integration of the highly anticipated Six-Core AMD Opteron 2400 Series processor into its family workstations.

Leoni, the leading provider of cable systems to the automotive sector and other industries, has taken over the US company Valentine Robotics in full effective 1 July 2009.

This is one rat you won't see on a subway track. Scientists at Bristol Robotics Lab and the University of Sheffield have developed a SCRATCHbot, a ratlike robot that relies on its sensory whiskers to survey an area.

It's regular polymers and ceramics that are used in dental surgeries to rectify the human jaw.

Four papers in the journal Science this week offer new details about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Mission that was operated from The University of Arizona.

Clouds scoot across the Martian sky in a movie clip consisting of 10 frames taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander.

Moon , which opens on Friday, July 3, at the Mayan Theatre , is a low-budget science-fiction film that shoots for the stratosphere using ideas, not computer graphics and flashy effects.

Focus Features has provided FSR with a fantastic first look at the characters from the upcoming CG-animated thriller 9 , from director Shane Acker and producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov.

Sheriff John Zaruba announced the new robot on Wednesday. July 1, 2009 -- A new $150,000, stair-climbing robot will help DuPage County sheriff's deputies disarm explosives without endangering their own lives.

A chewing robot invented at the University of Bristol which mimics the human jaw and teeth could revolutionise dental research.

Dr Tony Pipe, deputy director of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, believes 'Scratchbot' could revolutionise the way use robotics in search and rescue missions Photo: SWNS Researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of Sheffield have spent six years researching and designing the Scratchbot.

Wouldn't it be useful to have a gadget that immediately warned you when the information you just saw on the Internet or heard from a buddy might be baloney? How about a gizmo that helps you remember the names of people you encounter whose faces you only vaguely recall? Or a personal robot with such a gentle touch it could fetch your reading glasses ...

"Three billion human lives ended on Aug. 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war judgment day.

Success: Jeremy Lineham was home less than 24 hours after his major prostate surgery using pioneering robot technology Doctors are hailing a breakthrough in the fight against prostate cancer after a British patient was successfully treated for the illness by a pioneering surgical robot.

NEW NEW Abstract A robot manipulator sharing its workspace with humans should be able to quickly detect collisions and safely react for limiting injuries due to physical contacts.

As awesome robot projects go, this DIY transforming 'bot takes some beating.A Apparently created for a robotics class by "Kevmag 2000", the roughly 12-inch high robot can go from a motorized truck to an upright, walking 'bot in seconds.