Taser, iRobot team up to arm robots
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RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled 'bots for the police and the Pentagon.
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Plans for new gutter-cleaning robot from iRobot surface on FCC Web site.
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Pint sized robo-assassin talks the talk, can't walk the walk Israeli killer-robot maker Elbit Systems today unveiled the "Viper," a small ground-crawling combat machine "roughly the size of a small television".â¦
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Submachine gun, check. Semiautomatic pistol, check. Personal digital assistant, check.
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The U.S. Army has plans to let robots handle war's dirty work.
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Scientists in Japan have succeeded in controlling a humanoid robot with signals picked up in the U.S. from a monkey's brain and transmitted across the Internet, they said Tuesday.
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe  Sep. 13--IRobot Corp. of Burlington, the company made famous by its  Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, is now offering a $130 automated sweeper  called Dirt Dog that's programmed to track down heavy dirt -- the kind on  garage or basement floors.
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It can greet people, show DVDs, and hand out balloons. Ubiko, a robot-on-wheels with a catlike face, is joining the crew of temporary workers supplied by a Japanese job-referral company to stores, events, and even weddings.
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Japan is pretty serious about robotics. If the droids are going to fit in, they probably need to learn the Japanese custom of serving tea.
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The federal government has approved plans to deploy a robot developed to help stroke victims gain control of arm muscles.
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IRobot Corp. won a $286 million contract to supply the U.S. Army with bomb-disarming robots, wresting the deal from a smaller rival that iRobot claimed stole its trade secrets.
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Linux-based robots are tricky to create, but Michael Surran's Robotics class found out it can be done.
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Legs or wheels? Entertaining or functional? The robot world has a lot of questions to resolve.
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The Taser Remote Area Denial system -- able to warn, incapacitate and retain intruders with just a little help from a remote operator -- is designed to protect fixed installations.
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Police firearms officers will be allowed to use electronic stun guns as a safer alternative, the government said yesterday. The hand-held Taser device fires twin needle-tipped darts up to 21ft; they deliver
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Extraordinary advances in unmanned aerial vehicles signify progress in the field of robotics.
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Defense scientists in several countries are developing tiny flying robots that can hit the enemy with itsy-bitsy explosives. Critics worry that terrorists will adopt the nasty tech. By David Hambling.