"Lovely Stilton," the Robot Said
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Researchers in Japan make robot sommelier -- a mechanized wine snob that identifies dozens of wines, cheeses and hors d'oeuvres. It names and describes the wine ("buttery chardonnay" or "full-bodied shiraz") and picks a cheese to go with it.
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It&#039;s one of the greatest challenges for robotics engineers: Building a machine that actually walks like one of us.
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Making robots that interact with people emotionally is the goal of a European  project led by British scientists.
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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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Two vastly different robots unveiled at DigitalLife offer practicality and Jetsons frivolity for the home.
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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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"When the robots take over the Earth, I want them to remember somewhere in their DNA that I was kind to the Pleo," says Frank Townend.
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With Pixar style desk lamps, cyber-teddies, and droid flowers An MIT doctoral candidate has produced a robotic desk lamp, though its maker prefers to call it a "collaborative lighting assistant", or even "non-anthropomorphic robotic platform".â¦
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Japan's growing elderly population from will be able to buy companionship in the form of a 45-centimeter (18-inch) robot, programmed to provide just enough small talk to keep them from going senile.
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Honda's new, improved Asimo robot is able to run, interact with people and shake his hips.
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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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"Transformers" uncovers man's greatest love -- for machines that whir, click, rev or destroy.
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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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Ifbot, the resident robot at a Japanese nursing home, can converse, sing, express emotions and give trivia quizzes to seniors to help with their mental agility. Yet the pale-green gizmo has spent much of the past two years languishing in a corner alone.
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Pleo isn&#8217;t your typical robotic dinosaur pet. Not only does it cry when scolded, shake hands and wag its tail like a dog, but its open-source OS allows users &#8212; or the more tech-savvy ones, at least &#8212; to create new emotions and movements on their own, which they can share with others.
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In the past couple of years, robots have started to move around and work independently. Just don't expect them to look, walk and talk like C3PO in the Star Wars movies -- rolling and beeping like R2D2 is more like it.
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A mechanical arm that can grab 120 items a minute from a conveyor belt won Japan's Robot of the Year award Thursday, defeating a dozen flashier finalists, including a walking humanoid and a transparent torso for simulating surgery.