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Robot-Driven Trucks, Worst Renovation Projects, Facebook Improved: The Street
Kingston Daily Freeman
Robot-Driven Trucks, Worst Renovation Projects, Facebook Improved: The Street. Published: Saturday, May 18, 2013. Click to enlarge. Here are some of the stories making news in today's report from The Street, a leading financial news and information ...

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Robot Alarm Clock Dances by Your Bedside - Mashable
Mashable
If you've tried every alarm clock app and gadget under the sun but waking up on time still proves difficult, a beside companion that dances and talks might do the trick. No, it's not a human, it's a robot. Southern California-based Nuts and Voltz has ...
The Robot Alarm Clock That Dances To Wake You UPiDigitalTimes.com

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MarForPac cuts through barriers with new recon robot
Marines.mil (press release)
Marines from U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific trained to operate a rapid area sensitive-site reconnaissance robot, the only robot of its kind in the Department of Defense, during an advanced technology demonstration program at the 3rd Marine Regiment ...

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Drinks-On With the World's Biggest, Baddest Bartending Robot - Gizmodo
Gizmodo
One is the visualization system, which, along with the app, was made with partners from Pentegram and super über. On the large screen behind the robotic arms you can see exactly what's going into your drink when and what's being done to it as it happens.
Robot bartenders mix cocktails at Google I/ODVICE
Robot bartender that takes orders via smartphoneHindustan Times
Robot bartenders mix our drinks without all the chitchatmsnNOW

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FDA reviewing robot complaints
Pittsburgh Business Times (blog)
In a prepared statement, FDA spokeswoman Synim Rivers said the survey was undertaken after an increase in the number of complaints received about the da Vinci surgical system. Sunnyvale Calif.-based Intuitive Surgical Inc. makes the robots, which are ...

Singularity Hub
DARPA Is Building an Autonomous Robot Hand That Can Open Locked Doors
Motherboard (blog)
That's because the robot hand, which is being developed for DARPA with assistance from researchers at Yale and Harvard, will eventually be entirely autonomous. It's part of the Autonomous Robotic Manipulation project, which DARPA describes thusly: ...
DARPA's Robotic Hand Can Unlock and Open Your DoorSingularity Hub

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French Tribune
MIT takes battery-powered robot cheetah for a gallop
Register
Video Fast, agile robots for reconnaissance and rescue have been under development for half a decade or more, but they all have needed to be tethered to a power cable. Now MIT thinks it has cut the leash with a battery powered "cheetah" capable of ...
MIT's cheetah robot runs faster, more efficiently, can carry its own power ...Engadget
MIT Now Has Their Own Super Fast Robot CheetahWebProNews
MIT Robot Cheetah Is Fast, Efficient And Carries Its Own Power Supply (VIDEO)Huffington Post UK
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JJ Watt visits cancer patient who learns via 'Watt the Robot'
CBSSports.com (blog)
Once you figure out what it is, then you'd understand why Cristian Beasley, a young Texans fan who is part of the program, might name his robot "Watt." And you can probably guess where this is going: Beasley was featured on the news, Texans superstar ...
NFL star test drives the robot young cancer patient named for himmsnNOW
Houston Texans' JJ Watt surprises cancer patient who attends school via 'Watt ...The Huntsville Times - al.com
JJ Watt visits boy with leukemia who named robot after himGuyism
Your Houston News -KVUE -The Post Game (blog)
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Giant robot arm gets caption hand from readers
CNET (blog)
Giant robot arm gets caption hand from readers. A photo of a massive robot arm entertaining guests at a Google I/O party this week really needed a good caption, so we reached out to readers. Here's what they came up with. Leslie Katz. by Leslie Katz ...

Book review: ' Robot Futures' by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh
Washington Post
When I'm reincarnated, I want to come back as a robot. Being a human again, or a poodle, or a goldfish, will seem so sadly biological. Robots, on the other hand, will have all the fun — at the very least, juggling a dozen balls, seeing around corners ...

ExtremeTech
Google I/O 2013 in pictures: Glass, sensor motes, robot mixologists, and more
ExtremeTech
The “big reveal” at Google I/O is always the keynote. This year's conference was unique for the low-key presentation. The three-and-one-half hour marathon presentation didn't include any new hardware announcements (unless you count the $649 unlocked ...

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Geek (blog)
Arduino launches its first robot kit complete with wheels
Geek (blog)
Arduino has teamed up with the 4-time Robocup-winning Complubot Robotics team to create a new Arduino Robot kit. The robot is aimed at the novice and teaches you how it's made as you build it, but it also doubles as a base platform from which you can ...
Ready for the Official Arduino Robot?Robots.net
iSensobotz Workshop on ARDUINO at BVCOEAOL
Arduino's first robotics kit is coming, and it rolls around like a RoombaTechHive

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Google I/O After Hours: Robot bartenders, augmented reality and Billy Idol
Network World
There was also a makeshift ring where you and a teammate could take on two other people in a robot boxing contest – robots were a big deal at the event. Given that the controls were made up of a series of levers, each working a single joint, bouts ...

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Robot helps house-bound boy attend school
The Verge
Robot helps house-bound boy attend school. By Aaron Souppouris on May 17, 2013 07:47 am @AaronIsSocial 10Comments. Don't miss stories Follow The Verge. Follow. Photo. When Lyndon Baty was born six weeks premature with a life-threatening ...

Columbus Dispatch
A little drama and a little science: Robots take to stage in New Albany
Columbus Dispatch
Henry is a 2-foot-tall humanoid robot with a football-shaped head and a starring role in the year-end play at New Albany High School. The show, which opens today, is part of an annual project known as “Robot Theater,” fusing the work of a drama class ...

Prankster 'Superhero' takes on robot traffic warden AND WINS
Register
A blogger claiming to have superpowers has exposed a flaw in a parking company's vehicle recognition system which could see innocent drivers wrongly hit with fines. Going under the name Parking Prankster, the activist set out to discover whether he ...

MIT's cheetah robot runs faster, more efficiently, can carry its own power ...
Engadget
When it comes to hunting down humans running speeds, MIT's cheetah might come second to Boston Dynamics' own high-velocity quadruped, but by substituting pneumatics with motors, MIT's version apparently runs far more efficiently. At the recent ...
MIT Now Has Their Own Super Fast Robot CheetahWebProNews
MIT Robot Cheetah Is Fast, Efficient And Carries Its Own Power Supply (VIDEO)Huffington Post UK

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Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
SWAT team gets new robot
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
The SWAT team -- which is composed of members of the Kennewick, Pasco and Richland police departments, as well as members of the Benton County Sheriff's Office -- was able to buy the robot using money donated by the Community Enrichment ...
Robot joins Tri-Ctiy Regional SWATKEPR 19
Tri-City Regional SWAT Team gets new robot - KVEW-TVKVEW
Tri-City Regional SWAT Team Unveils New RobotKNDO/KNDU

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BBC News
I, Robot Maker: Making robots to interact with humans
BBC News
One British manufacturing firm is trying to make robots that share more human characteristics, to make interaction with them more natural and intuitive than ever before. Engineered Arts in Cornwall is in the vanguard of this area of research, which ...

The Atlantic
A Robot Just Broke the Human Record for Miles Driven in Space
The Atlantic
In December of 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt got to do something awesome: They took a joyride on the moon. A long one. The pair piloted their mission's Lunar Roving Vehicle 19.3 nautical miles (which is also 22.210 ...
Space Driving Record Broken by Robot - InventorSpotInventorspot
Electric Cars on Mars and Earth: How They Stack UpSpace.com
This Week on Mars: Prepping for another dig sessionITworld.com

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