Cats Harbor Secret Plan to Turn Us Into Litter-Scooping Robots
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An ever-expanding array of high-tech gear designed to make kitties purr practically proves felines are plotting our eventual demise. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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The use of robots to mow lawns, vacuum floors, and perform other household chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, says a United Nations survey, which credits dropping prices for the robot boom.
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For your inner entomologist: Insects that appear plucked from a future in which artificial intelligence has triumphed over the natural world.
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The elderly are being eyed as a potential market for personal assistant robots that could help them live independently longer.
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Scientists have created a  salamander-like robot that married biology and robotics and  enabled them to explore ideas about the first vertebrates that  emerged from water to land hundreds of millions of years ago.
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A pair of robots named ASTRO and NextSat have been working together in Earth orbit, docking, undocking, flying around and refueling, as if they have minds of their own.  Their adventures may herald a revolution in the way we explore space.
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Cat and mouse may never be the same. Japanese scientists say they've used genetic engineering to create mice that show no fear of felines, a development that may shed new light on mammal behavior and the nature of fear itself.
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To the alarm of animal rescue groups, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is rounding up feral cats that live in a colony deep in the secured cargo areas.
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It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a Tokyo high-rise is a robot.
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After being used to explore Mars, make cars and clear bombs in Iraq, robots are moving into the home, ready to single-mindedly vacuum carpets, mow lawns and act like humanoids as industry targets the consumer market.
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British scientists are developing a robot that will generate its own power by eating flies.
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A PREDATORY robot devised by British scientists could generate its own energy by catching and digesting flies. Called EcoBot II, the creation is part of a drive to make &quot;forget and release&quot; robots that could
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Tiny robots powered by living muscle have been created by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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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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Paper files next for the great data hoover Google has revealed plans to help convert the world's paper filing cabinets, in Tron-like fashion, into mere nodes in the great hive mind.â¦
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It's time for radical robomediation. Let's hand the service industry to automatons rather than transforming humans into reluctant machines. Commentary by Momus.
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The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors, pull guard duty, and perform other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, said a new UN survey, which credited dropping prices for the robot boom.