Worldwide sales of service robots for personal and domestic use in ...
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GENEVA - Because of falling prices, 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, a new survey says.
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'Transformers', rises to the number 1 spot across the world with gross sales of $43.6M. Directed by Michael Bay, the movie is on 3,503 screens in 29 territories. Internationally, 'Transformers' is ranked #1 in Spain, Sweden, Turkey,  the ...
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Dominated by home-cleaning gadgets, the consumer robotics market is expanding with the arrival of 'bots that can spy inside your home when you're away or arrange virtual meetings of family or friends.
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A Gartner Group report on PC hardware sales in emerging global markets has stirred up controversy in both the open-source and proprietary software worlds. Eighty percent of personal computers sold in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe that ship with the Linux operating system eventually will be running a pirated copy of Windows, predicts Gartner.
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Features 'cantilevered crotch joint', potential for bot-crack in future Japanese developers have produced a robot intended for manual labouring, which they reckon will be ready to sell to the construction industry by 2010.â¦
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We meet the nerds with the world's cleanest floors In Silicon Valley, any conference calling itself the "Best of the Best" promises more fluff than stuff. But a recent Churchill Club event which promised the cream of the robotics industry confirmed the sceptics' worst fears. Consumer robotics is a business built mostly on play, hope and tinkering - rather than profit or technical accomplishment - to the point that huge, obvious, deal-breaker truths are never even mentioned.â¦
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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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Robots may be used as home health care workers in Norway in coming years.
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Millions of new robots will be installed in households over the next few years, a UN report predicts.
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Geneva - Worldwide sales of industrial robots surged to record levels in the first half of 2004 after equipment prices fell while labour costs grew, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe said in a report to be released today.
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Robots will be truly useful when they get sensitive arms and hands, plus the programming to use them properly.
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In a sweeping report that analyzes worldwide robotics industry growth throughout 2003 and compares it with activity in the robotics marked tracked over nearly one-and-a-half decades, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) predicts a
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GENEVA - 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, says a new survey that credits dropping prices.
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20 October 2004 - The chances of having an obedient robot do unwelcome or dangerous jobs have increased tremendously, with orders for industrial robots rising to a record 18 per cent in the first half of this year, a new report co-sponsored by the
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Strong demand for replacement handsets in western Europe and the US helped push global mobile phone sales to 156.4 million units in the second quarter of 2004, a 35 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2003, new research has claimed.
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The automated life used to be the exclusive realm of the rich. Now home automation is coming to a subdivision near you. By Tom Vanderbilt from Wired magazine.
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Plans for new gutter-cleaning robot from iRobot surfaces on FCC Web site documents.