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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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Pentagon’s Robot Cheetah Outruns Usain Bolt

From: Wired Magazine By Noah Shachtman Sep 5, 2012 Robots are already stronger than humans, able to lift thousands of pounds at a time. In many ways, they’re smarter than people, too; machines can perform millions of calculations per second, … Continue reading

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NASA360

NASA 360 is an award-winning broadcast 30-minute television show, vodcast, and related online resources that take you on a journey to see how technologies developed by and for NASA impact your life and pave the way to the future. Watch … Continue reading

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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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New Telepresence Robot

For more info: http://www.doublerobotics.com/

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Morse Code On Mars

From EDN Doug Grant- 08.10.2012 August 10, 2012 Since everybody else is writing about the Curiosity Rover, I guess I need to write something about Mars—like the fact that there’s Morse code up there. I’m not sure whether this got … Continue reading

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Robot / 3D Printer to build houses

from POPSCI 8/9/2012 by Rebecca Boyle 3-D printers can make airplanes and their parts, food and more — why not entire buildings? A professor at the University of Southern California aims to print out whole houses, using layers of concrete … Continue reading

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All the Pieces Found

NASA has now located all the various components discarded during the Curiosity landing. See picture below:

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Quadrotor Show

A troupe of 16 quadrotors (flying robots) dance to and manipulate sound and light at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase 2012.

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