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1st Robot Airline Passenger

Robot flies to Germany as airline passenger from Los Angeles By Michael Fleeman LOS ANGELES Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:22pm EST From: Reuters.com (Reuters) – A humanoid robot with a head, hands and feet and wearing stylish red sneakers boarded … Continue reading →

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Military Robot Fueled By Google Technology Has Learned Karate

Military Robot Fueled By Google Technology Has Learned Karate from: CBS (San Fransisco) MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF) – The Pentagon-backed team developing a robotic soldier that looks like something out of ‘Terminator’ has released a new video showing off the … Continue reading →

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Robot Kit Rundown

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Robots transform into furniture at EPFL

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A Thousand-Robot Swarm

from IEEE Spectrum [click for full article] When Harvard researchers first introduced their Kilobot project in 2011, they had built only 25 of the little robots. Two years later, they announced that they had made 100 robots. Now the researchers … Continue reading →

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HyQ Quadruped Robot Is Back With Even More Tricks

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Dean Kamen’s “Luke Arm” Prosthesis Receives FDA Approval

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DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Dates, Location, and Everything Else You Need to Know

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Engineering Student Invents Robotic Arm Controlled By Facial Expressions.

The Business Insider (5/16) reports an engineering student at the University of Toronto has developed a robotic arm that responds to signals in a person’s brain. The user wears an “emotive headset” reads facial expressions in order to move the … Continue reading →

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Marco Tempest: And for my next trick, a robot

Marco Tempest: And for my next trick, a robot #TED : http://on.ted.com/trOY

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