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Google Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics – IEEE Spectrum

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A Robot to Carry Your Stuff

RoboBusiness 2013: A Robot to Carry Your Stuff from IEEE Spectrum By Evan Ackerman Posted 28 Oct 2013 | 14:42 GMT Sometimes all it takes to make something successful is a simple solution to a simple problem. At RoboBusiness 2013, … Continue reading

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UBR-1 Robot

UBR-1 Robot From Unbounded Robotics Revolutionizes Affordable Mobile Manipulation From IEEE Spectrum By Evan Ackerman Posted 21 Oct 2013 | 15:00 GMT We’ve been following Unbounded Robotics, the final spin-off from Willow Garage, since we first learned of the company’s … Continue reading

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Run For Your Lives: Self-aware Hexapod Is Self-aware

From: http://gizmodo.com/run-for-your-lives-self-aware-hexapod-is-self-aware-950951793 Many of you have expressed some, um, concerns about a few of the bots we’ve covered in recent weeks. ATLAS, for instance, is quite frightening, but it’s not yet self-aware. This tiny hexapod, however, is and it’s rather … Continue reading

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DARPA VRC Challenge Results: Here’s Who Gets an ATLAS Humanoid – IEEE Spectrum

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Lego Announces Mindstorms EV3, a More ‘Hackable’ Robotics Kit

From: IEEE Spectrum POSTED BY: Erico Guizzo and Stephen Cass / Mon, January 07, 2013 One of the best robotics kits is now even better. Lego is unveiling its new Mindstorms EV3 kit today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), … Continue reading

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Video Friday: Thought-Controlled Robot, PackBot With Jamming Gripper, Furby Teardown – IEEE Spectrum

From: IEEE Spectrum POSTED BY: Erico Guizzo / Fri, November 16, 2012 In this edition of Video Friday, we bring you humans controlling robots, humans interacting with robots, humans building robots, and humans tearing robots apart! Many research groups are … Continue reading

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Kenshiro Robot Gets New Muscles and Bones

From IEEE Spectrum POSTED BY: Angelica Lim / Mon, December 10, 2012 We’ve seen bio-inspired hummingbird robots, turtle robots, squirrel robots and more… enough to start an extremely profitable robot zoo. But very few researchers have been able to mimic … Continue reading

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The Robots Are Coming . . . to Your iPad

From IEEE Spectrum POSTED BY: Erico Guizzo and Randi Silberman Klett / Tue, November 27, 2012 We know you love robots. We love robots, too. In fact, who doesn’t love robots? Robots are one of those things that capture the … Continue reading

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Somehow, an Incredible Robotic Dragonfly is Now on Indiegogo

IEEE Spectrum Online POSTED BY: Evan Ackerman / Thu, November 08, 2012 Well, if you didn’t already spend all of your pocket money on one of those NanoQ quadrotors, here’s something that you’ll want to blow the rest of it … Continue reading

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