Stories about: iRobot

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    Cyborg plants render humans even more obsolete 21/09/2011 04:25:00

    The cyborg plant is not a new concept. The robot plant replacement is even less new: You can buy one for a price of $4.19 from ThinkGeek, after all. But a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich isn't interested in solar-powered plastic toys or surgically-altered self-lighting plants that hang on a wall (creepy!) -- they're giving plants the ability to feed, water, and sun themselves, by augmenting them with iRobot technology and wheels.
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    What the robots saw: Inside Fukushima nuclear power plant 21/04/2011 04:03:00

    A stepladder bent and broken against a rack of electrical equipment, debris covering the ground, on-screen radiation readings in the red zone. These are the first images provided by robots from inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the massive March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami led to the world's second-worst nuclear accident.
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    Robots enter Fukushima reactor building for first time 18/04/2011 02:07:00

    A pair of remote controlled robots entered a reactor building at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday morning for the first time.
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    RightNow acquires natural language search company 19/01/2011 10:31:00

    CRM vendor RightNow has agreed to buy Q-go.com, a vendor of natural language-based search software, for $US34 million in cash, the companies announced Tuesday.
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    iRobot demos 'shape shifting' next-gen robots 16/10/2010 05:21:00

    Meet the next generation of robots that shape-shift, are squish-able, and can troll the world's oceans for months on a single battery charge. iRobot, best known for its Roomba disc-shaped robotic floor sweeper, is going way beyond scooping potato chips from under couches with its latest robot offspring.
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    New household robot promises to make virtual visits easy 01/08/2008 08:04:44

    iRobot-the maker of household robot helpers such as the Roomba (a robot vacuum cleaner), the Verro (a pool-cleaning robot) and the Scooba (a robotic mop)-has set its sights on a far more social product, the ConnectR robot.
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    Mowba's crazy mowing madness 07/07/2008 14:15:00

    Robotics firm iRobot, creator of the Roomba, is designing a lawn-mowing robot.
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    Weekly Tech News update - July 4th, 2008 04/07/2008 13:33:02

    YouTube stars gather in Boston, a laptop is gone in 90 seconds, a look at new robots, a tearful farewell to Bill Gates and a look inside a cable laying ship.
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    iRobot cuts ribbon at new headquarters 02/07/2008 17:05:49

    With much fanfare and a special ribbon cutting, done by none other than a robot, iRobot showed off its new, 150,000 square-foot facility that includes engineering labs, a robot test track, and other features.
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    Whatever happened to artificial intelligence? 24/06/2008 09:38:30

    Artificial intelligence promised us great technology. But has it delivered?
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    Has a robot revolution started, or is it still 20 years off? 11/04/2008 09:21:58

    Much like the then-fledgling PC industry in the late 1970s, the robotics industry is on the cusp of a revolution, contends the head of Microsoft's robotics group.
 
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