Trends in Robotics
New Robots Take On Folksier Roles
added Fri Sep 28 20:34 2007 ET from TechNewsWorld
Dominated by home-cleaning gadgets, the consumer robotics market is expanding with the arrival of 'bots that can spy inside your home when you're away or arrange virtual meetings of family or friends.
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NASA Rover Reaches First Stop in Crater
added Fri Sep 28 20:34 2007 ET from Associated Press
NASA's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments.
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Robo-doc to perform weightless surgery
added Sun Sep 23 11:42 2007 ET from CNET
Telerobotic surgery performed in zero-gravity environment holds promise for medicine in space and on the battlefield.
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Robots turn off senior citizens in aging Japan
added Sun Sep 23 11:41 2007 ET from Reuters
Ifbot, the resident robot at a Japanese nursing home, can entertain and help seniors with their mental agility. Yet the gizmo has spent much of the past two years languishing in a corner alone.
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Lunar Prospecting Robot
added Sun Sep 23 11:36 2007 ET from Technology News Daily
Researchers at CMU are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a stable platform for drilling deep into extraterrestrial soils.
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Robots That Sense Before They Touch
added Sun Sep 23 11:34 2007 ET from Technology Review
Intel researchers are using electric-field sensors to build pre-touch technology into robots to help them size up objects and people they encounter.
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Gun-toting robots on patrol
added Thu Sep 13 20:40 2007 ET from CNET
The 3rd Infantry Division is taking the Talon to the streets of Iraq with a machine gun attached.
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Mars rover tiptoes into giant crater
added Thu Sep 13 20:39 2007 ET from CNN
Two months after surviving a giant dust storm on Mars, Opportunity began a risky drive into a crater blasted open by a meteor eons ago.
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Lifelike boy robot may mark start of social 'bots
added Thu Sep 13 20:37 2007 ET from MSNBC
David Hanson has two kids to care for these days: his 18-month-old son and a robotic boy.
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Japan eyes robots to support aging population
added Thu Sep 13 20:35 2007 ET from Reuters
It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a Tokyo high-rise is a robot.
