Russian railways in robot repairman revue
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Dwarf droid dancers in TV debut Russia's railway industry has thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the world, exhibiting a team of dwarvish droids which can sing and dance on tables. Railways chiefs say that the machines will be used for tricky repair work in confined spaces.â¦
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Eructate! Eructate! Today's dodgy robot story comes from Russia, where reports have it that a powerful wardroid under development has been given unusual duties. The deadly combat machine, doubtless more accustomed to mowing helpless fleshies like grass, has been reassigned in a cheesy sitcom-style twist as a robo-nanny in charge of looking after the inventor's baby son.â¦
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2nd LD Writethru: International space station's faulty computers all back online    WASHINGTON, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The six faulty computers at the International Space Station's (ISS) Russian segment has been all restored on Saturday, according to a top NASA official.
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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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A small coterie of devoted professionals and amateurs developing fully articulated, humanoid, and even sinuously dancing robots a reality.
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KOROLYOV, Russia -- A U.S. astronaut and his Ru
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The space agency taps Lockheed Martin and MD Robotics to build robotic technology it may use to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. By Amit Asaravala.
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A cadre of unknown designers shapes everyday human-machine interactions. By Andrew Blum from Wired magazine.
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HOUSTON -- Two Russian cosmonauts and engineers on Earth have made more progress to revive critical computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said Saturday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - U.S. and Russian flight controllers worked to fully restore computers aboard the International Space Station on Thursday after a system crash that could force the $100 billion outpost's crew back to Earth.
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Science & environment: The robot devised by Ivan Bowman makes remote working and interacting with his colleagues much easier, says Matt Walcoff.
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Can new technology mend the country's notoriously unreliable rail network? Not exactly. Nicole Martinelli reports from Milan.
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The next big use for iRobot's bots: patrolling international borders.
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Four of the six Russian computers aboard the International Space Station were working again Saturday, it was reported.  The failed computers were revived by Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, Russian space mission control told Interfax.
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iRobot and WowWee introduce new robots at the Consumer Electronics Show. IRobotâs cleans gutters and WowWeeâs is a night watchman.
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A German art group reprograms old assembly-line robots to become autonomous artists. The machines draw, spin tunes and dance in public. The group wants to show that the industrial beasts can create beauty. By David Cohn.
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By Associated Press  HOUSTON -- Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before.