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'First' robot doctor begins work at a Northern Ireland hospital
ITV News
What is thought to be the first robot doctor in the UK has begun working at a hospital in Northern Ireland. Based at the high dependency unit of Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry, patients need round-the-clock attention, but they do not have an intensive ...

FTAV video: the robot employment threat
FT Alphaville (blog)
Cardiff writes mostly about US macroeconomic issues, with daily excursions into other topics about which he claim no expertise. Before Alphaville, Cardiff spent a little more than two years as a reporter at Dow Jones Financial News covering investment ...

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E&T magazine
The ecological badminton robot (w/ video)
Phys.Org
A robot to play with! A childhood's dream has now come true for researchers at the Flanders' Mechatronics Technology Centre (FMTC) in Belgium. Wim Symens and his team pioneered the development of the first robot ever to play badminton. But this robot ...
Badminton robot increases mechatronics efficiencyE&T magazine

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Technorati
Meet Roboy, Your Social, Crowdsourced, Robot Buddy
Technorati
Artificial intelligence students at the University of Zurich have assembled a team of professional robot crafters and given them a mere nine months to create Roboy, a robot that not only mimics the motions of a human being, but could also function ...

Always wanted a robot: why not DIY?
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If you have access to a basic 3D printer, around $US800 in spare cash and like fooling around with Arduino, why not make a robot? We're not tilting at windmills here, because designs for the body parts are available thanks to an open source project ...

How Do Humans Really Feel About Robots?
Mashable
In a world where mannequins track your every move and the waiter at that restaurant is made of metal, robots are inevitably becoming more commonplace. But how much do we really care about these cold, controlled helpers? Most robots we encounter are ...