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A DARPA funded project has tested a robot that can climb stairs and do push ups. The robot, according to its designers, can "balance itself, move freely; walk, do a variety of suit-stressing calisthenics during exposure to chemical warfare agents."
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The expectation that robots and humans will interact closely is common, but predictions about how robots and people will relate and experiments testing the shapes future bots might take continue to proliferate. Will mechanical helpers look like ECCERobot?
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For those of a certain age, he was always there to warn his human friend of "Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!" Now, Parkinson's disease and cancer survivor Dick Tufeld is gone at age 85.
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Scientists at the Free University of Berlin in Germany have made progress on designing a car that will be steered by the driver's thoughts.
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A 15 year old boy from Rome has become the first child to have a permanent artificial heart implanted. The boy, who has not been named, had the ten-hour operation last week. The procedure had previously only been carried out on adults.
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High-tech company Interbots are working with the Autism Center of Pittsburgh to supply some robot style therapy to children.
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A couple in Japan have been married by a robot. This was the first ceremony of its kind and the robot, know as the I-Fairy, was the first to ask the happy couple to kiss following the service.
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A recent edition of Spectrum Magazine writes of a man who has made a robotic copy of himself, but what is this like and why does he do it?
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PETA, the controversial animal rights group, is trying to snuff out the star power of Punxsutawney Phil, the iconic symbol of Groundhog Day, in the name of protecting him from overexposure.
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The number of portable robots deployed in Afghanistan is set to increase with the British Ministry of Defence ordering devices that can operate in caves, courtyards and which can help dismantle Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
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About Rachel Greer Rachel Greer was born in Milwaukeee, Wisconsin on October 25th, 1992. In her teen years, she...
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A robot that can thought seems to be a thing that it is not impossible any more. A researcher at Japan named Osamu...
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While Hollywood's greatest minds can't seem to come up with anything better than a "Smurfs" remake, there is a new...
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I'm dying, but let's be honest, so are you. The difference is that I keep trying to die sooner than later. If my body...
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For well over the last 50 years, we've seen a number of visions for the future of the home. Robot maids, touch-screen...
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