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How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot Worker

How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot Worker Rodney Brooks’s new start-up wants to spark a factory revolution with a low-cost, user-friendly robot IEEE Spectrum Online By Erico Guizzo, Evan Ackerman / October 2012 Full Article HERE

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PhantomX

From IEEE Spectrum If you’re going to blow over $2,000 on a hexapod kit, you’ll be buying a PhantomX. Why? Because it’s big, it’s strong, it’s fast, it’s creepily organic, and it would have some surprising tricks up its sleeves … Continue reading

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Ekso Bionics

From IEEE Spectrum Ekso Bionics has introduced a new version of its rehab exoskeletion, featuring several new walking modes and a wireless sensing system. Still no word on when we can expect a model that will turn us all into … Continue reading

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Pleo Hunt

IEEE Spectrum Online POSTED BY: Evan Ackerman / Fri, June 01, 2012 Pleo hasn’t looked this poorly since we saw one get shredded by a Combot back in 2008, but it’s possible that this little movie is all special effects … Continue reading

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Robot Heads Do K-Pop

IEEE Spectrum Online POSTED BY: Evan Ackerman / Fri, June 01, 2012 And now, without further ado (or really any ado at all), here are four robotic heads singing K-pop:

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Arduino’s Playmate

Arduino’s Playmate The $25 Raspberry Pi will do for computing what Arduino has done for robotics IEEE Spectrum BY Steven Cherry // Wed, April 18, 2012 This is an exciting time for do-it-yourselfers. Last October, Spectrum ran a feature article … Continue reading

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Boston Dynamics Jumping Robot

Boston Dynamics Sand Flea Robot Demonstrates Astonishing Jumping Skills POSTED BY: Evan Ackerman / Wed, March 28, 2012 IEEE Spectrum Online We’ve been following the development of Boston Dynamics’ Sand Flea jumping robot for years now, but we’ve never actually … Continue reading

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Fifth-grader bests college students at robotics competition

Fifth-grader bests college students at robotics competition 10-year-old’s first-place win earns standing ovation By Jane Roberts Commercial Appeal Posted March 26, 2012 at midnight Davis Fortenberry, 10, rolled out his robot in a college-level competition in Orlando earlier this month … Continue reading

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Brainlink Gives Any Robot a New Brain

From IEEE Spectrum Brainlink is a little piece of hardware that can augment (or replace) the brain that’s currently powering your robot. Yes, your robot. Any robot at all, pretty much, as long as it’s controllable with an IR remote … Continue reading

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Amazing Nao Hack Offers Full-Body Teleoperated Kitty Grooming

From IEEE Spectrum Groom your cat remotely using a NAO and Kinect. Full Article

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