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Article | 25/05/2012 Japan robot lab readies second prototype for work at crippled nuclear reactor
A Japanese robotics lab has developed a new emergency response prototype that will soon be put to work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant...
Article | 10/05/2012 UC Berkeley tests floating robot sensors to track water flow, environmental concerns
It's been a couple of years and a couple of million dollars. Finally, researchers and graduate students who have spent years developing intelligent wa...
Article | 8/05/2012 Sharp to sell moody robotic vacuum with video streaming, remote control by phone
Sharp's new robot vacuum isn't always happy to do your housework.
Article | 26/04/2012 Robotic spider weaves web at MIT Media Lab
An MIT Media Lab robot mimicked silk worms and spiders and wove a cocoon-like structure with a little programming help from humans.
Article | 9/04/2012 Fujitsu research lab demos current projects, says economy shouldn't affect funds
The head of Fujitsu's main research division says it is a mistake to cut back on investing in new technologies during hard economic times.
Article | 15/03/2012 K-glove developed from space robot
General Motors and NASA used technology from their space-bound Robonaut 2 to create robotic gloves for humans that the companies hope can reduce repet...
Article | 19/02/2012 Computers may control intersections for self-driving cars
While scientists have been busy with making more accurate self-driving cars, at least one set of researchers has thought even further ahead and develo...
Article | 4/11/2011 Foxconn's parent may be planning to make robots
The parent of Apple supplier Foxconn has broken ground on a new R&D (research and development) facility in Taiwan to produce what could be robots ...
Article | 1/11/2011 IBM's Watson edges Harvard students in 'Jeopardy' quiz
IBM's Watson supercomputer eked out a victory in a "Jeopardy" quiz-show battle with a trio of Harvard Business School students on Monday, pulling out ...
Article | 22/10/2011 Europe's GPS satellites blast off
Europe's GPS program, Galileo, became a reality on Friday with the launch of its two first operational satellites from the European Space Station in K...
Article | 21/10/2011 Europe's satellite GPS to blast off after technical hitch
Europe's space ambitions are scheduled to blast off on Friday with the launch of the first two operational satellites of the Galileo program, the Euro...
Article | 5/08/2011 Microsoft debuts software for homebrew gadget builds
Hardware hackers building their own gadgets may want to take a look at a new offering from Microsoft that promises to save time in prototyping new dev...
Article | 2/08/2011 Japan caretaker robot kneels to lift people off floor
A caretaker robot developed in Japan has been equipped with powerful motors in its hips and advanced feedback sensors so that it can bend over and gen...
Article | 1/08/2011 Foxconn to rely more on robots for manufacturing
Foxconn, the maker of Apple's iPhone and iPad, plans to rely more on robots for manufacturing over the coming years, allowing the company to invest mo...
Article | 6/05/2011 Robots learn to share and help each other
Robots have officially learned how to help each other -- like animals and humans do -- in a laboratory evolution experiment.

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