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 police and the Pentagon.
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Korean robotics researchers develop ghostly software agents that move from one droid to another, taking possession of their mechanical bodies long enough to perform a task, before vanishing into the ether. Quinn Norton reports from Daejeon, Korea.
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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.
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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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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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The latest tiny flying robot that could help in search and rescue or surveillance has been unveiled in Japan.
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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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IRobot Corp , a maker of vacuums  and bomb defusers, said on Thursday it has developed a device  for cleaning gutters on homes and a Web-controlled robot with a  video phone.
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The robot army is coming, and it's well armed. Wired tours the military robotics labs of the Space and Naval Warfare System Center, which is part junkyard, part high-tech weapons laboratory.
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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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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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Plans for new gutter-cleaning robot from iRobot surfaces on FCC Web site documents.
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Devices made of heart tissue could screen drugs and power implantable robots.
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The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees.
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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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Now the machines can follow you into the building iRobot, provider of ground warbots to the US forces and purveyor of domestic droids to the comfortably off consumer, has struck a deal allowing it to use laser-scanning technology in its future designs. Reports have it that the kit could be in use in 2009; though this would be with the military, not on the company's famous line of autonomous "Roomba" floor-cleaners.â¦
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A new robotic device is designed to help stroke patients regain motion in their arms