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youtube.com - 2 days ago
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Texas A&M University staged a performance of "A
Midsummer Night's Dream" using robots as fairies. Researchers thought
bringing 'bots to the Bar...
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Robots Perform Shakespeare (video)
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wired.com - 2 days ago
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been updated for
the 21st century with seven small robots playing fairies
alongside carbon-based co-stars. Beyond being a cool thing to do, researchers saw bringing bots to the Bard as a chance to introduce robots ...
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Robots Perform Shakespeare
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dvice.com - 2 days ago
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Bandit, a robotic personal trainer developed by students
at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering, is designed to
walk humans through beneficial workout routines using vocal "encouragement" and articulated arms. I write "encouragement" because, really, ...
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This creepy robot wants to be your personal trainer
googleblog.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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The URL of this result is "www.productwiki.com/spidersapien," which
doesn't provide much additional information about the site or
this result. Now take a look at the result with the new site hierarchy display: The new text provides useful information ...
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Official Google Blog: New site hierarchies display in ...
businessinsider.com - 3 days ago
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Sponsored Link: Advertisement
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Peter Thiel Says Don't Piss Off The Robots (Or Bet On A ...
engadget.com - 4 days ago
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The MIT Technology Review has unearthed a new
laser-based 3D mapping robot that can produce results similar
to those obtained from $100,000 systems at about a fifth of the cost. Funded by the US Army, researchers at the Stevens Institute of ...
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3D mapping drone fires off lasers from a mile away (video)
slashgear.com - 5 days ago
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We know this looks like a plastic trashcan
full of junk electronics, but it’s actually the inside
of WowWee’s Rovio robot webcam just after he’s been given a remote-control mod. Obviously blind to the dangers of granting your robot power over high-voltage appliances, ...
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Rovio mod adds remote-control over home appliances
androidguys.com - 11 days ago
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Let me first say that I have always
been an early adopter. From my first Tandy Color
Computer II to one of my latest automobile purchases, the great Mazda RX-8, I am on the hunt for the next big thing and the products that are just a little ...
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Archos 5 in the Real World
hackaday.com - 9 days ago
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We’re filing this one under “best interface implementation”.
This robot is controlled by finger gestures on the
surface of an iPod Touch. It can walk forward, turn, sidestep, jump, and kick a ball based on the input it ...
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Robot interface lets fingers do the walking
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gizmodo.com - 13 days ago
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Technological progress is amazing. Case in point: When
I was learning to drive, my safety monitor was
a "mom." It barked orders at me as I navigated Massachusetts streets, oftentimes recklessly at high rates of speed. In the future? Computers! At ...
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Specialized DVR For Cars Could Make Teens Better Drivers ...
engadget.com - 13 days ago
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We've seen mixtures of Roomba and Pac-Man before,
but nothing like this. A team of developers have
hacked five floor-cleaning bots to create a sort of OCD version of the game, with the Pac-Man bot sucking up little white rectangles whilst being ...
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Autonomous Roombas do Pac-Man right (video)
engadget.com - 5 days ago
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Why would you want to build a 100-strong
swarm of mini robots? Well, aside from having them
as your minions, you might be able to learn about "artificial self-organization," and "control in large robotic groups," which should come in useful during ...
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Swarm robot project sounds ominous, uses open source
engadget.com - 28 days ago
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Researchers in Italy and Sweden have spent the
last ten years developing what they call the "Smart
Hand," a prosthetic hand which enables feeling in its fingertips. The hand -- which was recently wired up to a test patient through a surgical ...
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Prosthetic, robotic 'Smart Hand' has feelings, too
engadget.com - 26 days ago
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At this stage of its development, PETMAN is
here to assist mankind. However, it's clearly fated to
be weaponized as an AT-ST walker in support of Imperial ground forces. For the time being anyway, this biped humanoid is being built by Boston ...
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Boston Dynamics PETMAN predicts a future of man as pet ...
dvice.com - 25 days ago
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A new, even cuter, Japanese robot has hit
the scene called ROPID . Developed by Tomotaka Takahashi
of Robo Garage at Kyoto University , the tiny robot can respond to voice commands and actually has a mouth that moves when it speaks. In addition to ...
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ROPID mixes speedy moves with cuter robot design
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blog.makezine.com - 25 days ago
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Here's another awesome project by Vadim Ryazanov of
Let's Make Robots. Called Mr. Wake , this robot
has the duty of protecting it's alarm clock from any bleary-eyed, would-be assailants. Instead of running away after it's snooze button ...
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Mr. Wake, the uncatchable alarm clock robot
blog.trossenrobotics.com - 24 days ago
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Forum member WGhost9 has the right idea; build
a robotic spider to pass out candy at Halloween.
Creeper2 looks like a cousin of the Phoenix Hexapod , but a bit bigger and with more powerful HS-5645MG servos ! Definitely a cool way to scare some kids ...
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Just in time for Halloween!
crunchgear.com - 23 days ago
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Robots now enter the agriculture industry, too. First
the award-winning rice-transplanting robot , now this: Major Japanese
conglomerate Fuji Heavy Industries has developed an agricultural robot that can tend fields autonomously. The company ...
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First agricultural robot that can autonomously work on ...
technabob.com - 24 days ago
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Tomotaka Takahashi, creator of the high endurance EVOLTA
robot, recently showed off his new robot, ROPID. The
name is supposedly a combination of rapid and robot, so it was either ROPID or RABOT. The cute robot is about 15 inches tall and can jump ...
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ropid jumps and runs and steals your heart
crunchgear.com - 23 days ago
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Meet AIDA, the Affective Intelligent Driving Assistant .
This is a prototype robot that utilizes sensors inside
and outside the car to create “a platform comprising of a personal robot and an intelligent navigation system that aims to bring ...
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Robots taking over role of backseat driver
