Scientists Create Fly-Eating Autonomous Robot
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According to New Scientist.com, Scientists at the University of West England have designed an autonomous robot which generates its own energy by eating flies.
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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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Extraordinary advances in unmanned aerial vehicles signify progress in the field of robotics.
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Seals track prey with them, rats sense  nearby objects with them and robots could soon be using  whiskers in a similar way to see in the dark and avoid  obstacles, researchers said on Wednesday.
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A robot that can taste and recommend wine and food is unveiled by Japanese researchers.
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Legs or wheels? Entertaining or functional? The robot world has a lot of questions to resolve.
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Hondaâs Asimo humanoid robot may be headed for a lifetime of domestic chores: engineers at the company have taught the robot how to serve tea to guests and give a nice little bow when itâs done.
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Seagull poo on solar cells is primary tech snag In the Irish Sea off Wales this week, a new kind of robot is taking to the waves. For once, this is not a military kill-droid, nor a securo-pork powered surveillance machine. Instead, we are seeing the debut of the fully-autonomous sailboat, which uses its own software to navigate out at sea. For now the uninhabited windjammers will stay relatively close to home but, next year, their successors will race across the Atlantic.â¦
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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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Scientists in Britain have said they have figured out how insects fly, bringing bee-sized surveillance aircraft a step closer to reality.
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The People's Daily Online reports Chinese scientists have successfully implanted electrodes in pigeons' brains to control the birds' movements. Reminds us of U.S. attempts to create remote-controlled shark spies. In Danger Room.
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In what sounds like a science  fair project on steroids, engineers at Stanford University plan  to have an unmanned robot car ready to navigate urban traffic  in less than a year.
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Seiko Epson have unveiled their latest wireless flying micro-robot named the FR-II. The successor to the FR robot the latest micromechatronic contraption has a number of improvements.
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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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As if there weren&#39;t enough of them in the world already, scientists have succeeded in cloning flies. The identical fruitflies are the first insects ever cloned, says the Canadian team that created them.
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Researchers have assembled the entire genome of a living organism -- a bacterium -- in what they hope is an important step to creating artificial life.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs and cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.