Robot gender-bending reptile is a lover, not a fighter
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Animatronic droid lothario goes undercover to help breeding programme New Zealand boffins have deployed an undercover robotic reptile into the wild in order to boost the success of gender-bending creature breeding programmes, it has emerged.â¦
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A sleek desktop debuts, along with VR-like games that help you exercise--and a robot that doesn't.
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Is it possible to outrun evolution? Two new lizard-behavior studies look at why it's not always just the fittest that survive.
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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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LOS ANGELES  - "Transformers" is a wet dream for fanboys, with vehicles that whiz and whir into alien robots, spectacular sci-fi stunt chases, glistening military hardware, overheated computer software and brainy, hot girls who love Popular Mechanics.
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Our three-part series on cheap, plastic robots concludes with the Robotikits Jungle Robot, a stump of voice-activated plastic and metal that resembles an encephalitic R2-D2. Commentary by Lore SjÃ¶berg.
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WASHINGTON -- The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics...
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Human two-legged walking uses much less energy than chimps' four-legged gait, scientists show.
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The "dino-bot" is an open-source toy that lets users create new emotions and movements that they can share with others.
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The "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" franchise is becoming a little more, well, feminine.
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Look, girls, sparklies Hardware Widow I like being a girl. If I were a man, I'd never get the chance to purchase shiny items like Philips' Swarovski crystal-encased earphones and - luxury of luxuries - USB Flash drives, all hi-tech toys cunningly disguised as jewelry.â¦
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Humanoid devices will be used to encourage interest in science and technology.
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Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ...The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid &quot;model&quot; of what they and the world around them are like.
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Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is about to welcome a robotic visitor.
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Artificial Life, a brazen Hong King Company has invented a new (and I use the next term very loosely) game. For those men without a girl, and who have exhausted every other method of finding companionship, comes the Virtual Girlfriend.
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Several research teams are developing robots made of smart building blocks that can morph into different forms to perform a broad variety of tasks. The bots are to be used in space missions and in search-and-rescue efforts. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Men and women have got it reversed compared to most of the animal kingdom when it comes to the relative sizes of males and females.