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There's just something wrong about that! In honor of Halloween, I’m skipping the travel stuff today. Instead, I’m naming my 5 Scariest Movie Robots of all Time. They are: Maximilian – The big red robot from “The Black Hole” was freakin’ awesome, just floating there with that glowing red eye. Being from the creepy spaceship Cygnus also helped, because that thing just looked like a spacegoing mad scientist’s lab. The Original Stripped-to-the-Metal Terminato r – Obviously. He was big, strong, unstoppable, implacable. And those glowing red eyes! The Robot Gunslinger – Yul Brynner’s character in “Westworld” scared the hell out of me, especially when ... Read Full Story
Written by dragonblogger on
The robotics industry is still lagging in the area’s of home consumer robotics in my opinion. The Roomba and other vacuum or house cleaning robots were just the first step and were more like gimmicks than actually useful products as they do have limitations. What we really need is to develop intelligent and efficient robots that can perform basic household chores that free up humans to do more productive things. Laundry is a no brainer, no reason humans should have to keep doing laundry in their own home. Robots will wash, clean, sort and fold laundry and put it away for you. The same ... Read Full Story
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Look out Ichiro Suzuki and Daisuke Matsuzaka. A pair of baseball-playing robots that can pitch and hit with incredible results have been developed in Japan. Read more Read Full Story
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Baseball playing robots which created by Japanese professor Watch the video Watch here Read Full Story
In what can be hailed as a medical breakthrough, an Italian man who lost his left forearm in a traffic accident was outfitted with a prosthetic robotic arm, with which he is now able to feel the sensations in his robo arm and is now able to control the arm entirely with his cerebral activity. [...]  
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This undated photo made available from the Bio-Medical Campus University of Rome on Wednesday, Dec.... This undated photo made available from the Bio-Medical Campus University of Rome on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 shows at center Pierpaolo Petruzziello ...  
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Forget about Michael Jackson popularizing and refining the robot dance - we're talking about real robots dancing here at the Robo-one dance competition, where these bipedal mechanical wonders attempt to impress you with their slick moves, putting us humans to shame on the dance floor in the process. Don't believe us? Check out this chick in a short skirt go. Permalink: Robo-one dance competition from Ubergizmo | Hot: Palm Pixi...  
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Japanese robot manufacturer Robo Garage have been demonstrating their latest ‘bot, and what distinguishes the endearing 38cm tall Ropid is its ability to not only run but jump 8cm into the air.  Ropid is intended to demonstrate a new leg design, which uses a double-jointed “linkage belt” – each point of which can be independently locked for stability in different movements – paired with four gyro-sensors. Inside Ropid’s head, meanwhile...  
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London, November 26 (ANI): NASA is proposing to build a robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars from the air, and has advertised for help building it. According to a report in the Telegraph, NASA scientists are proposing to build the Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Surveyor (ARES). Around the size of a small plane, ARES will be folded into [...]  
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Robots are coming to Nashua High School North. Last week, the Nashua Board of Education approved a new course called robotics technology. The unleveled course will be for a quarter credit and begin being offered next fall. There will be four sections with 18 students per section.  
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Poor little HRP-4C-chan—she just can’t keep a job. First she was a receptionist, then ‘fashion model robot, and now she’s pretending to be the Vocaloid J-pop singer, Hatsune Miku, at the Ceatec electronics trade show in Chiba, Japan. For more details… Robo-pop 2009 Oct 6 — The Sun |News THIS Robots Got Talent. The amazing humanoid can sing songs by [...]  
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Panasonic-owned firm Activelink Co. built this robotic exoskeleton called a Dual Arm Power Amplification Robot. The Activelink slogan is delightedly science fiction-esque: "Creating a New Human Machine Age." According to the company, "Using Robotic Technology equipment anybody can become a superman. We are bringing this dream one step closer to reality." They should hire Sigourney Weaver as the Activelink spokesperson. More details and video...  
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Vinten Radamec, a Vitec Group brand, has won an order for three Vinten Radamec Fusion FP188 robotic camera pedestals with FH100 heads, together with a control system, from Sky Italia for a new studio in Rome. This is the fourth Sky Italia studio that has been equipped with Vinten Radamec robotic camera supports, and the first of its studios to use moving pedestals.Studio B in Rome is an additi.....  
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Robotic fish. The phrase alone sends shivers of excitement down our collective spines here at Engadget. Undoubtedly, Michigan State University assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering Xiaobo Tan feels similarly, as he has designs on creating an army of them. The researcher has developed a prototype of a droid fish intended to be used to collect data from various bodies of water. The fish will be especially effective in...  
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