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Robotics
223 published works
The Right Coast
Why Google is buying maker of military robots – The Times of India
To gather the expertise and research it needs, Google has purchased eight companies that specialize in robotics this year. The acquisitions are being assembled into a new robotics division headed…
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Jenkins: Robots to the Rescue? – WSJ.com
We need to preserve the incentive for investors to bring us the robots that will make the future bearable, rather than burying entrepreneurs in taxes in a vain attempt to…
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Navy dolphins losing out to robots – San Diego, California News Station – KFMB Channel 8 – cbs8.com
SAN DIEGO (AP) Dolphins used by the Navy to track down mines will soon lose their jobs to robots.via www.cbs8.comThis is too bad. Dolphins are cooler than robots. I suppose…
EvidenceProf Blog
Total Recall, Philip K. Dick, The Terminator, Robotic Heads & PreCrime
By Colin Miller
Today marks the release of "Total Recall," the remake of the 1990 movie, with Len Wiseman stepping in for Paul Verhoeven as director and Colin Farrell taking over for Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid/Hauser. Both of these movies are based (loosely, at…
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The Associated Press: Gumby-like flexible robot crawls in tight spacesTom Smith
Harvard scientists have built a new type of flexible robot that is limber enough to wiggle and worm through tight spaces.It's the latest prototype in the growing field of soft-bodied…
Surf and Turf Law
BERTHOLF – check out the ROOMBA
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Tokyo researchers hijack your hand, help you play the koto (video) — Engadget
Researchers over in the land of the robot-obsessed have found a new, non-invasive way to control your hand while your brain recoils in horror. Reassuringly named the PossessedHand, this belt…
ImmigrationProf Blog
CNN Special of Immigrant Robogeeks
Many of you will remember the case from several years ago about the national robotics competition won by students from Hayden High School in Phoenix, Arizona, led by several undocumented students.…
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DARPA awards contract to build big, scary robotic dog Tom Smith
That should give them Taliban somethin to think about.
Cam Law
Law and technology: radio interview focuses on accelerating change
When we pray for "all sentient beings," does that include robots? This is one of the fascinating questions I explored on a radio show--to be featured within a few weeks--on…