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Freaky Light-Controlled Gels Could Be the Real Future of Robotics
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Tomorrow's Recruitment: Big-Data Robots Bring Better Hires
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A reminder that in the world of BIG DATA, a robot may be a body-less piece of code running on a server farm half a planet away. Delete the scoop?
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IBM Research uses scanning tunneling microscope to direct its cast of 240 atoms to make “A Boy and His Atom”.
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Whoa...agog! 
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Fascinating and beautiful 3-D manufacturing process, which will use fewer materials and less energy than traditional manufacturing, will also no doubt employee fewer workers -- and then there's the worry of what will be done with these tiny drones? Delete the scoop?
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Georgia Tech researchers have discovered stutter jumps can reduce power consumption in jumping robots. Delete the scoop?
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Robot’s custom-designed electric motors are powerful and efficient. Delete the scoop?
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Ever see flying robots doing stuff that you never suspected flying robots could do? I have.
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Transport palletized or racked loads throughout manufacturing and warehouse environments without the need for facility modifications, wires, tapes, magnets or lasers with Seegrid's GWS35 Walkie Stacker...
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State of the art machine vision and conventional industrial material handling equipment: A utilitarian mashup that's off the shelf. The future is here. Delete the scoop?
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Everyone, it seems, wants to build a telepresence robot that moves. Revolve Robotics, however, wants to build a telepresence robot that doesn't break the bank.
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Toshiba shows off robot meant to help at nuke site ♦ Toshiba shows off robot meant to help at nuke site Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or..
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by Geoffrey IngersollWith the U.S.Military reporting a record number of amputations, researchers around the globe are working frantically to find the...
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Hopping robots could prove the answer to giving robots unprecedented mobility for exploring other planets, gathering battlefield intelligence, and assisting...
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It's not going to dance Gangnam Style any time soon. But in order to help sailors extinguish shipboard fires, the Navy's newest robot has to learn how to move as awkwardly as real people do.
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DVICE As robots get smarter, they'll be pouring our coffee (and beer) GigaOM Scientists are hard at work creating robots that are able to sense and predict human actions, which should make them better performing tasks and look more natural while...
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Funny - the confusion - or rather misinformation about "sensing" and "smartness" Delete the scoop?
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Well...that ddn't take long. Delete the scoop?
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Boston Dynamics—the folks behind the brick-tossing BigDog—has released some new footage of one its other incredibly unsettling robotic creations.
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A bit less creepy with a suit on...or not? Delete the scoop?
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Festo isn't quite the household name that Boston Dynamics is. (And, really, we're not entirely sure Big Dog is a regular topic of conversation at dinner
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Festo's at it again, adding to their menagerie of robotfly creatures. Incredible! Delete the scoop?
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In this video, Nigel Ackland demonstrates how his new robotic hand allows him to do ordinary things with extraordinary technology. 
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3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production | Autopia | Wired.com
The future of urban runabouts will be ultra lightweight, electrically powered and 3D-printed... if Jim Kor has his way.
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Interesting story. However, it doesn't explain how 2500 hours of build time maketest his viable?! Delete the scoop?
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CHARLI-2 implements an active stabilization strategy based on sensory feedback as an open loop walking gait can become unstable due to the external perturbat...
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http://compressorheadband.com/ http://www.robocross.de/ http://www.bigdayout.com/ Preview of Compressorhead during band practise at the Robocross head quarte...
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Last fall, four autonomous Wave Gliders set out from San Francisco Bay to begin a two-fold mission: gather data about the oceans\' depths and break...
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The cleanup following the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan is expected to take decades.
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Researchers at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL have developed a jumping robot inspired by the grasshopper. The 5cm model uses a 0.6-gram pager motor and a cam to charge two torsion springs, which trigger a jump from the robot’s 1.3mm carbon rod feet. The 7-gram robot can jump 4.6 feet (1.4 m), more than 27 times its body size, and ten times the distance of any existing jumping robot.
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A newly developed microrobot is the first that can move around by continuously jump on the water's surface without sinking, mimicking the water strider.
The robot's driving system includes a miniature direct-current motor and a reduction gear unit that allow it to leap more than 14 cm (5.5 inches) into the air and jump in strides of 35 cm (14 inches) - over twice its own length. Its increased mobility now means the microrobot can easily evade obstacles and be used to monitor water quality, or even perform spy or reconnaissance missions. Delete the scoop?
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